And I thought my M109 was going to be a big motorhome...
Seriously though, I thought about building on a 5-ton chassis, but the sheer size and weight of those trucks is really going to limit where you can take them. Like everything else, it's a compromise.
Hey, good to hear form you, have not seen you on the board for awhile. Your 100% correct, it is all a compromise.
It seems people just can not understand MY MISSION for this vehicle. I am not designing something to go into the deep dark rain forests or up into the hills of Moab.
I keep hearing about how long it is going to be and how it will be hard to turn around on a 2 lane road. Well... yeah, "K" turns on anything short of a runway are out of the question, but I already know that. It is going to be almost exactly as large long and difficult to maneuver as my 34' class A motorhome was. The difference is that this vehicle will be able to take me the hundreds of more places than it could have ever even thought about going. I will no longer get stuck in some place like say... the pit area at a race track, or a campground that got some rain overnight.
I think if instead of looking at it like I'm building a "Off road RV" maybe if people looked at it like I am building a "RV that can go places that are not paved". Think of it as a 45' $million dollar Prevost bus that can ford a 2-3' deep stream and drive into areas that would otherwise be completely out of the question. Again, see the post a couple pages back in this thread where I linked to 3 different videos.
Jesus, this is obviously not aimed at you. I have read your posts and I from what you said in a few of them I believe you do get it, but obviously many others do not. I'll not be able to follow you on some of your trips but then again, thats is what the 4 wheeler is for...lol.
I guess all I am saying is that I completely understand the limitations that will be imposed by the size of the thing, instead of telling me about those limitations, help me find was to overcome them as beast as is possible. Help me find any critical issues I have missed that pertain to the mission assignment for this vehicle. Help me find ways to make the system work to the ultimate that it is able to reach.
I just re-read that and it makes sense to me.... did it come out so that it makes sense to you?