Looking for 60's or early to mid 70's Wanderlodge

[Sam T.]

"...Take the $500 you'll spend on building a towbar, add another $500 to it and pay for a landall to tow what ever you find home. EVERYBODY will be MUCH safer..."

Than you for responding. I know you're trying to help me out and look out for my best interest. I appreciate it very much. Thank you.

Well doesn't matter the bluebird I wanted is gone. It went very fast.

This one. Maybe someone here bought it. I spent a bit of time figuring out the loads on tow bars and what steel to use, how to tow, who might could tow, prices,etc. and someone snatched it up. Sigh, very sick feeling for missing it. I doubt I'll ever see a deal like it close enough to get at that price. I wasted a huge amount of time finding a way to tow and lost it. That's two I missed in two weeks because I didn't have a tow bar. I have two heavy duty trailers but not heavy enough for RV's.

https://pensacola.craigslist.org/rvs/d/p...54640.html

I bet this is the interior of the same Bluebird when it was sold earlier. The outside looks the same.There's not many of these and the likelihood that there's two in the region that look so similar it good odds. If that was it I would have LOVED to have it.

https://www.smartrvguide.com/L52477163

I've called the tow companies and for a lower mileage(like 150 miles away) they wanted $2,000 at one place and $2,500 for another. I bet it would have been minimum $2,500 but more likely $3,000 and that's too much for me. If I could have got someone to tow it for $1,000 I would have jumped on it. I expect that price is unreasonable for say 250 miles. If you have a source for that I would like to know about it in the Southeast, mid-Alabama.

And yes I know it's sketchy to tow it with a F350 and do know about the air brakes. My plan was to take a generator and a air compressor and keep it running the whole time. I would have built a pintle hitch, which I have the receiver for and used chains to connect. It would have been tough on the truck I acknowledge but let's say I destroy the transmission. Likely I could replace it for the $3,000 tow fee.

I'm fairly good with working on things. I worked on generators, primarily, for Caterpillar for a couple years and went to school on their engines. While working for them I worked on all kinds of stuff, trucks, heavy equipment, mining stuff. If I have a reasonable manual of sorts I can usually figure it out. I also took two years welding high school(long time ago) but I can stick a couple pieces of metal together with AC welder and I own one. I also have a class A drivers license and drove 18 wheelers for a year or so so I'm not completely in the dark but I'll admit I'm far from knowledgeable about everything. So I don't claim super competency in any of these but I know enough to get by.

What convinced me of using a A-Frame is videos of people pulling really heavy stuff with it. Dump trucks and heavy equipment.

I don't argue with you about the tow rating but to tow on fairly level ground(Southeast) with four wheels on the ground would not be that much stress. Does it fit the requirements of a full time, all the time towing in any conditions, no not at all but just to move something to where I can work on it could be done. There would have been some risk (the major problem I could see would be someone pulling in front of me and slamming on the brakes. I would likely plow into them) but if you don't have lots of money, and I don't, then to get some things risk goes up.

There's a reason millionaires don't work in coal mines but working people will.

And there's always the possibility I could have got it running down there and drove it back.