Fun with the Rebel Bird

[Ryan Wright]

Hey Jon,

On 6/10/07, Jon wrote:
>
> I'm totally retired and I love to have challenges and since this will
> take up a little of my spare time-why not?

Well, I'll be the one to encourage you, then. I think you should do
it. If nothing else, it will be unique. If I had a useless rear door
hanging off the back of my coach, I'd do it. A back porch on an RV is
just a cool idea. Then again, I was raised by hippies, so that gives
you some perspective on why I like the idea too. ;-)

If I were doing it, I'd try to make some sort of three layered
electric slide-out deal, so when you're driving down the road it only
sticks out two feet, but when parked you flip a switch and now it's 6
feet. Would be fun to engineer something like that and not too
difficult a project I'd imagine. Your idea with the three receiver
hitches is a good one, I think, and would make the project removable
should things not work out as well as planned.

Pete's ideas on a hinge-connection and/or skid are good ones. I'd try
to implement those and you might also add some large steel "wheels" to
the back - you know the type, long and skinny like they use on the big
garbage bins. Should stop you from catching the ground with the rear
most platform cross member and ripping the whole thing off your coach.

Good luck with it.

-Ryan
'86 PT-40 8V92
Tri-Cities, WA