Date: Mon, 7 Jan 2008 13:46:52 -0800
Reply-To: Jake de Villiers <crescentbeachguitar@GMAIL.COM>
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From: Jake de Villiers <crescentbeachguitar@GMAIL.COM>
Subject: Re: Announcement: the BZ Shelf
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We sleep upstairs in the summer and downstairs (with the top down) in the
winter.
The lower berth is definitely softer, but its also a lot narrower.
I'm a bit of a sprawler when I sleep, so its easier for my wife to find her
own space upstairs.
On Jan 7, 2008 1:29 PM, Tom Buese <tombuese@comcast.net> wrote:
> On Jan 7, 2008, at 2:16 PM, Michael Elliott wrote:
>
> > Beats me -- Mrs Squirrel and I prefer sleeping downstairs. Tom --
> > do you
> > use the upper bunk?
>
> I relegate non consensual guests to the upper bunk, but I have slept
> up there until I figured out it was not as comfy as downstairs.
>
> Tom
>
> >
> > --
> > Mike "Rocket J Squirrel" Elliott
> > 71 Type 2: the Wonderbus
> > 84 Westfalia: Mellow Yellow ("The Electrical Banana")
> > 74 Utility Trailer. Ladybug Trailer, Inc., San Juan Capistrano
> > KG6RCR
> >
> >
> >
> > On 1/7/2008 12:35 PM Jake de Villiers wrote:
> >
> >> Way to go guys! Nice job with the design Tom and thanks for the Wiki
> >> Rocky.
> >>
> >> Any trouble getting in and out of the upper berth with the shelf
> >> there?
> >> I can't really see how much of the access slot the BZ covers.
> >>
> >> Thanks again, Jake
> >>
> >> On Jan 2, 2008 5:40 PM, Michael Elliott <camping.elliott@gmail.com
> >> <mailto:camping.elliott@gmail.com>> wrote:
> >>
> >> Back in August or so Mrs Squirrel and I became frustrated with
> >> having to
> >> deal with boxes of groceries and stuff which were constantly
> >> underfoot
> >> when camping in places where the local critters were eying our
> >> comestibles
> >> with considerable interest. I wondered whether it might be
> >> possible to
> >> hang a shelf in the otherwise unused overhead space at the
> >> front of the
> >> raised poptop and posted a proposal involving chains and
> >> skyhooks and
> >> stuff, an idea that was doomed to never work.
> >>
> >> Several folks suggested better ways to go about it, but
> >> nothing seemed
> >> very easy to me. Then Tom Buese, who was apparently looking
> >> for an
> >> excuse
> >> to avoid doing real work, popped up with a design for a shelf
> >> which
> >> mounts
> >> easily on the poptop's crossarm with a couple of hardware
> >> store U-bolts,
> >> holds a surprising amount of stuff when deployed, and folds
> >> flat against
> >> the roof when the top is down. He put together a prototype and
> >> emailed a
> >> dimensioned drawing of his idea to me. I banged a version
> >> together in a
> >> couple of hours without hardly any significant loss of blood
> >> and mounted
> >> it up. After a test on a short camping trip, it has become a
> >> permanent
> >> addition to our Westy. Best thing I've ever done -- besides
> >> marrying Mrs
> >> Squirrel, I'd say.
> >>
> >> After the Vanagon Wiki went "live" this year I suggested to
> >> Tom that we
> >> could post a how-to article about his "BZ Shelf" but it took
> >> him a
> >> bit of
> >> time to take the pictures and refine the drawing. But finally,
> >> after
> >> considerable nagging on my part, I got him to post the stuff
> >> to me so I
> >> could write the article.
> >>
> >> If you're like me, able to use a reciprocating saw without
> >> hardly ever
> >> cutting off a finger, own a Westy, and find yourself sometime
> >> wishing you
> >> had a darn place to put pots and pans and coolers and stuff
> >> that seem to
> >> crowd your floor when camping, do yourself a favor and build a BZ
> >> Shelf. I
> >> reckon you'll be glad you did.
> >>
> >> So here it is, with Tom's permission: photos and plans at
> >> http://vanagonwiki.net/index.php/Buese_Shelf
> >> <http://vanagonwiki.net/index.php/Buese_Shelf>
> >>
> >> --
> >> Mike "Rocket J Squirrel" Elliott
> >> 71 Type 2: the Wonderbus
> >> 84 Westfalia: Mellow Yellow ("The Electrical Banana")
> >> 74 Utility Trailer. Ladybug Trailer, Inc., San Juan Capistrano
> >> KG6RCR
> >>
> >>
> >>
> >>
> >> --
> >> Jake
> >> 1984 Vanagon GL
> >> 1986 Westy Weekender "Dixie"
> >> Crescent Beach, BC
> >> www.crescentbeachguitar.com <http://www.crescentbeachguitar.com>
> >> http://subyjake.googlepages.com/
>
--
Jake
1984 Vanagon GL
1986 Westy Weekender "Dixie"
Crescent Beach, BC
www.crescentbeachguitar.com
http://subyjake.googlepages.com/
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