Ultimate 6x6 Expedition Vehicle: The Superlative Off-Road Adventure Beast ! All DIY build !

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Now have a look what arrived yesterday. We have a visitor. As you know a little guy is
a mine there and this one arrived from Alaska for a tour from Alaska. He arrived at our house
yesterday evening and the owner is with me. His name is Peter and he will give us a tour
of this beautiful rig. And that is Peter. Hello Peter. Hi there. Hey Peter, I would ask you to
tell us a little bit more about your base truck. What do we have here? The brand is clear.
It's an MAN but tell us more about the truck. Okay, it's a MAN chassis that is built for military
and fire truck. So it's a little bit different than a normal truck in Europe. But the chassis
itself or the body is this European style. It doesn't have a hood. The engine is under. We are
sitting on top of the engine. It's a six-cylinder straight 12 liters with 540 horsepower 2600
newton meters. That's about I think 2000 foot torque. The chassis itself can handle 33 tons
and it can pull about 150 tons. As a camper it's perfect. I see, okay. Do you know the overall
weight of this rig the way it is right now? Full filled up I would say 18 metric tons.
18 metric tons, okay. But it's easy for that chassis because it's six by six and it can handle
33 tons. So it's still pretty easy for the truck. I see, I see. And you said it was a six by six,
right? Six by six. Wow, cool. Okay, do you mind giving us a little tour around the truck and
we may start here at the front. Yeah, as you can see I have a US brand BOM hydraulic winch.
It's a series 30 so it's capable of about pulling 15 metric tons.
I used it only one time for me that was when I've been in a little desert in Russia.
If you have to stop in the sand it's bad. Oh, I see. You're done. Yeah. And all the other pullings,
yeah, I pulled out several other guys. Other people, yeah. Impressive is the the lighting
on the truck. When Peter arrived yesterday he flashed his light bar at the top and I
almost got blinded. It's like you're looking into a welding light. The normal lights are
really not so good. They are nice but, you know, if it's raining and the street is sucking in
the light so you need some extra. Also I have those ones, they are going to the sides. Yeah. So
I can switch the sides and that's pretty good when you drive here in Canada. I can just make the side
bright that I can see the animal and the wildlife earlier and don't blind the other cars.
Yeah. So it makes sense and it helped me a lot when we came down the dumpster or
what we drove the last few months. Cool, all right. Okay, I want to continue to the side.
So I would say we check the the driving cab out later afterwards. Yeah, we can. So we have
quite a few hatches. Oh yeah, you see I have a lot of storage, nearly everything. That's my table
and stuff that is long and not thick. You can see one of the diesel tanks. That's a 400 liter.
On the other side I have a 600 liter. Oh, you have a thousand liters. So I have a thousand liters and that's
I have a little because I can tell you in metric but not in imperial. So it's
270 gallons and that takes me something between 3 000 and 4 000 kilometers.
So that's maybe 2 500 miles. We have to do the math but you're probably not far off.
Yeah. So I have several storage openings. 3 000 kilometers with one. This is my compartment for
the tools and everything. And actually this is the back side of the kitchen. I see some
electrical parts there. Those are the chargers. The two that charge from the back batteries to
the truck batteries and the one is charging from the front battery. So I can charge either way.
So your alternator is charging the habitat batteries? Actually I have two alternators.
One from the truck that's doing the truck batteries and a second one that charges my
batteries in the back. Ah, okay. Very cool. Yeah. And then you can also charge the other way around from
your solar system into your starter battery. Yeah. Wow. Cool. This is the Mastervolt. So I have
the Mastervolt system. That's from Yachts. It's boat stuff and it's pretty good. So if that
system recognizes that the starter batteries from the truck go low, they will take some
power from the solar system. Wow, okay. Yeah, that's an outside
shower and this is my, I say, disposal area. Okay, that's the back side of the washer.
But down here I have pumps. So I'm not getting rid of gray and black water. Just let it go out.
I pump it out with an accelerator or with a accelerator pump. So it's only water and it's
pretty easy. I have it only a little. That's my opening. Yeah, that's the only opening for both
tanks or for black and gray? It's the only opening for both because it's only water.
Because it's accelerated two times and I can also, you see a lot of
changes that I made through the travel. So I can use the gray water and flush it
to the toilet system, to the black water tank and clean it out with the gray water.
Also, I have a separate waste water tank for the shower that's separate and I use that water from
the shower to flush the toilet. Yeah. And then everything, the system, I will use the water
as often as I can. This is very efficient. Yeah, and it is efficient. I have about 650 liters that's in
gallons. I had it somewhere. Ah, 175 gallons of fresh water. Yeah, that's a lot. And the same amount
in waste water. Because when you go for, in Australia for example, you must have the same
capacity in fresh water than in gray and black water. That's regulation there? That's the regulation.
Otherwise, you are not self-contained and you can't stay outside. On every door nearly, I have some
tools as you can see. Oh, quick about the tires. You have the 14 000 R20. So you have a
central inflating system? Yeah, this type, that's the only thing that MAN has. Even Mercedes doesn't
have that. Those are special axles. I have wider axles in the back. They are wider, so I have the
whole, the same wheels all over. Because normally in the back from a truck, when they have a dually,
the axles are not so wide and you have to switch this tire. That's what I have, exactly.
You have to turn them around. Mercedes doesn't have that, it's only MAN. Do you have a bead lock
system in it? Yeah, that's a Hutchington bead lock and that was the problem. Normally, MAN delivers the
truck with steel rims. They are way heavier with that system to inflate. The system doesn't fit
on Hutchington. So I did that by myself. For those who don't know what a bead lock system is,
basically there is a system in it, a locking system, which presses the tire on the inside against the
rim. Is that correct, Peter? Yeah, it's a steel. So that allows you to go really, really low with your tire
pressure. Yeah, I can go, I can drive with zero. If you are in sand, you can drive with zero, actually
a flat tire. And you can still drive because the tire will not jump off the rim.
Exactly, because of this bead lock system. And also, I had it twice. When you have problems with the tire,
I had one exploded tire in Africa, I think because of the heat. So the complete side
exploded off. And the good thing with the bead locks, there is always a rest, a little leftover,
because it's compressed in the rim and that allows you to go on driving. Oh, you can run it home
or to a better spot. Maybe I wouldn't go home. No, to a better spot where you can change it.
Yeah, makes sense, totally makes sense. As you can see, several storages. Yeah,
there I have my chainsaws because, you know, sometimes... Well, I can imagine that you sometimes
need to clear some branches. Yeah, you can see the scratches. Yeah, well they belong there, they belong there.
Yeah, right. Storage all over. That's a big door. Storage. Yeah, I have those pull-outs, I will show you
on the other side. Nice. That's one of the questions that most people ask. How do you
get down the tiles? Yeah. So what do you think? What I'm thinking? No. Oh, what the people think? Yeah.
Yeah, that's a good question, right? Yeah. So I, for me, I mean, I'm not familiar with the system either,
but I see here a locking part. Yeah. Which you can unlock and then probably lower it down with
the winch. With the winch? And where is the winch? Yeah. Oh, the winch is up there, yeah, between the tires.
Right there in between there. We have the technology. Give me a sec. Right there. There is the winch.
Yeah. So I can lower the whole thing with the winch all the way down to the surface,
to the floor, and then I can unhook it. Then the hook is here and I can unhook it.
And winch down the tires or winch them back up. Right. So I see you have the two tires,
you have one on rim and one just the carcass. Yeah, just the tire. Yeah, that makes sense.
And then two e-bikes and even this down here is flippable, so this you could potentially load
another bike. Yeah, normally we have two dirt bikes. So I changed the tires in Calgary on the way up
and yeah, I'm missing my bikes, but yeah, you can't do, you can't have everything.
Yeah, and you have another winch here. Yeah, you see the other winch. Yeah. And this is the, that we have to
buy the technical inspection in Europe and you can, I can completely put this up. We have to
have it too here in Canada. It's mandatory to have a crash bar in the back. Lots of lights here,
kind of work lights. Yeah, if you have to see something when you have to back up. In the dark,
yeah. Oh, and I see a camera. You got a camera here. Camera also. Is that your backup camera?
So I have a kind of a four camera system. Oh yeah. And the screen is in the sleeping compartment,
so I can see in the night when someone surrounds the truck, I can. So that's a surveillance camera.
Yeah. Okay, I see. Okay. Yeah. Good, good. I'm curious to hear what you have in here.
This. Yeah, I saw it when I walked by from the other side here. Those are air cushions.
Air cushions. Yeah, you need them when you have a flat tire and the rim is totally down
or in sand. If you have a flat tire in sand, or you have to change the tires in sand, or you can
just lift the whole truck out of the sand. So you push, you put those, maybe two under the axle.
Yeah. And with the air of the truck, I pump it up. They, they can handle 40 tons. 40 tons. Yeah.
So with about eight bar, they lift 40 tons, so it can lift me up completely. That's incredible.
It's a good system to lift it up, everything. What a genius idea, lift cushions. You know,
like that makes totally sense. If you have sand or you can't set up a, a jack. No. So you have
to have something that, you know, distributes the weight on a bigger scale. Yeah. And yeah,
I have some lumber over there. For leveling? I always put some lumber between the cushions
and the axle. Oh yeah. Okay. Yeah. Wow. Yeah. Very good. And it doesn't take much space away.
No. It's awesome. So this is kind of the loading, my, all our stuff that we need.
It's a little bit secured. Yeah. And then you can just. Oh, it's like, it's easy,
but you need a ladder to get to it, don't you? Yeah. Because I'm, I'm over, oh, here's the ladder.
Because you can see Peter is, Peter, how tall are you? 180. 180. I think 5'10". You're not a
small man. 180. Look, and he, he can, he can't even watch into the first box. Look in here.
That's, that's the electric system. That's all from Yacht. That's Mastervolt.
Ah, yeah. So you see the converter, the solar charger for batteries. Yeah. In the back there.
Okay. So solar, we can't see it on the roof, but how much, solar panel wise, how much,
what peak do you have on the roof? I have six panels and each panel is about, I think,
I can't remember, I think 210 or 240. I'm not really sure. Okay. So that means you have about
12 to 1300. Yeah, something like this. On the roof. Yeah. Okay. On a normal, normal day,
it's not a problem. Even when it's cloudy, it's charging, but I must say when I'm
steady somewhere, maybe four, five, six days. Yeah. Without sun, then that's my limit.
Then the batteries go down. And your battery bank is how big? Uh, four times 200 amp hours.
So it's, uh, four times 5,000 watt hours. In 24 volts, that's enough. In 24 volts. So you
get 800 amp hours in 24 volts. That's massive. That's massive. Yeah. Do you have anything on,
in the rig that needs so much power? Inside, yeah, inside everything is electric. Ah, okay. Okay.
We'll see that later then. That's cool. Very cool. And your system is made for
230 volts? Both. I have a converter or actually two converters that produce 240 volts.
Maximum 7,000 watts. Yeah. And I have one converter that converts from 24 to 120.
That can do 2,000 watts. 7,500 watts? That's enough. You can weld.
Holy smokes. Okay. Very good. Very good. That is so interesting. I have a storage.
That's also the backside of, of, uh, cupboards. And yeah, I have a cooler box, a second cooler
box. And actually, yeah, everywhere are tools. Yeah, yeah, of course. And here I, I just do.
There you go. The magic, the magic has happened. So inside that sails, I have my towing equipment.
Look at this. Nice. I can do it with that key also. And here we're going on to the front.
That's the opposite side of the disposal area. That's the freshwater area. So this is the,
that's the way I, I, I fill my water. Yeah. Pull that out and then I can walk around.
Yeah. Retractable hose. Yeah. Nice. How long is the hose? 15 meters. 15 meters. So 45 feet roughly.
So that's enough to fill. And as you can see, yeah, I have, uh, that is a very interesting
compartment. Yeah. That's when I fill the water, the water runs first through three filters. Yeah.
Okay. Active coal and a nano and all, all the stuff that, that they sell now for cleaning water.
Um, and back here is a UV filter. Oh yeah. Yeah. You see this one here. Yeah. And I can switch
everything that I can re-filter everything a second time between the tanks. I have two tanks
so I can, if I think the water is not clean enough, I just pump it through another time. Oh,
I see. Yeah. Okay. Where do you need this? And is it where you don't have a good source for water?
No, sometimes in, we've been in Russia already and in, in the Northern parts of Africa. And
sometimes you don't know how good the water is. And sometimes in Russia, for example,
uh, we pumped it out of a river and then you clean it and then it's fine. But here in North America,
you don't need it. No. Yeah. Where are the tanks actually, the water tank? Yeah. You can see one
behind. Ah, the white one there. Yeah. It's a little hidden. The system that you see in the
front of the tanks is the heating system. So we heat up our houses with, with a water system,
through radiators. And I have the same in, in here. So hot water radiators. So I can, yeah,
hot water radiator. So I have a heat exchanger down here. So when I drive the heat from the
engine goes through the heat exchanger and goes in here. Yeah. And then I can, with some switches,
I can choose to let the heat or the hot water run only through the water boiler,
the water heater, or the radiators, the water radiators in the truck. That depends if it's cold,
then I heat up. So normally when we stop somewhere, the compartment is already heated up. So we don't
have to heat it up with the, with diesel or with diesel heater. Yeah. And this is when I
be somewhere steady, I can heat up the same system when the engine is cold with that heater.
So that's a water heater. Oh, you pre-warm the engine then? Also, yeah. Ah, cool. Yeah.
You know, in the wintertime it's pretty critical to get your oil warm, right? Yeah. So yeah,
if I'm not mistaken, this is then the 600 liter diesel tank here. That's the main tank that,
that comes with the truck when you buy the chassis. Ah, that's the original one. That's
the original one. You can choose when you order the truck, you can choose everything.
You can also choose the second tank, but because I did everything by myself, I just choose the one
and I edit the other one later because I didn't know where I want to put everything. Just a second
Peter, you said you did everything by yourself. Does that mean you built this yourself? Yeah.
Oh, wow. So just to be clear, you ordered this truck the way you wanted it, the configuration,
and then you ordered a Habitat, an empty shell basically. Yeah, I made the drawings and then
they produced, a friend of mine produced the box, just the empty box. So the box came only with the
door. Only with the door. They need one opening because they can't build it without going in.
So, and then I had it in my workshop and then I started to cut out the first window,
second window, and I had no other openings in the beginning because I was not really sure how it
will be inside. So when we decided how it will be inside, then we added all the openings. I see. So
for example, these are, I like those handles on there. From who are they? That's a manufacturer
in Netherlands. Oh, outbound? Outbound. But this is not outbound windows? No, I have KCT. KCT.
KCT, they are well known here as well. They are pretty expensive, but they are,
yeah, I would say in Europe they are the best. Okay, that blue cap there, that is new to me.
Yeah, that's, yeah, to keep the environment better, that's, we say DEF here in the U.S.
or in Canada they say DEF, in Europe they say ADBLUE. ADBLUE, okay. So,
that's for the diesel engines to keep them clear. They made testings that when you are in a big
city, the air that's going in the truck is more polluted than the air coming out of the exhaust.
Just because I'm filming you now, I see here this advertisement, Abenteuer Allrad. Remember folks,
I recommended that show in one of my videos to go there. It's a show in Germany and it's very,
very good, you know, like, and I just heard the rumor that you were involved in somehow.
Yeah, the owner of the show is a very, very good friend of us. Oh, okay. Female owner and she's
doing that for several years and we had this year, I always fly back to help,
this year we had the 25th of the exhibition and it's, I would say, the biggest in Europe
and it's really worth also, just look on the website, you see all the exhibition vehicles
that they build and the different companies and it's pretty interesting. I recommended that in
one of my videos and I also told people that there's a huge parking lot and you will be able
to find some used good rigs there. Oh, yeah. People are selling those. This time, actually,
in the beginning it was one campground, it was camp one. Right now, last year, we had to open
camp five. Oh, really? I can't tell you how many, we had about 60,000 people, 60,000 visitors.
60,000. 60,000 on the exhibition. Yeah. And I would say, another 30,000 don't visit the
exhibition anymore, they just go on the campground. Oh, I see. This is a meet and greet, basically.
Yeah, it's kind of a meet and that's kind of a fun thing for many people, they meet there.
Yeah, Abenteuer Allrad is really recommended as a show to be there. Peter, you said this is an
older truck. For me, that thing looks brand new, but how old is the truck? What year is it?
Okay, the truck is 18. One thing is right behind you and that is looking at me and that's the purple
cylinder stairs. It looks like race suspensions or something like that. Yeah, actually, it is.
Reiger is the main deliverer for shock absorbers for all the rallies. When you look on the
rally Paris-Dakar, I would say the first 20 in rank all have Reiger.
Oh, you can see here the crawl through, there is the boot. I recently did a video about mine.
So, what do you think? You should check out the driving cab? Yeah, I go on my side. Yeah, okay.
Holy smokes!
Nice and clean in here. Very nice. Yeah, most people in the US or in Canada think it's
hard to drive, but it's actually... Is that a new mic? Yeah. You flip the steering wheel and it's a new mic?
Yeah, when you step out. Okay, I have not the size of maybe some truckers, but
yeah, it's easier. So, you can adjust it in every position. You see up and down and then it will be
the same. Not pneumatic, but you can adjust it on a normal regular car. Yeah, that's cool.
Yeah, very cool. Good. I think we forgot the keys outside in one of the boxes. Without the key,
it's nothing possible. Peter, you're saying MAN. So, what does it actually mean? It means
that means machine factory. Augsburg is a city and Nuremberg. That's the cities where they started.
Now, they are the big factories in Munich. Now, this is a lot of switches here. Yeah, I have marked
the most switches. Those are all my lights in the front there and this is my system where I can
adjust. That's my, we call it, that's the heat exchanger between the truck and the living
compartment. So, when I switch this on while driving, the heat from the trucks goes to the
back to heat up the water and to heat up the cabin. Yeah, okay. And here, that's the boiler,
that's the water heater and that's the heating. The winches, hydraulics from the engine winches
and this is the reduction, gear reduction. Right. And this is one of the, it's pretty,
now it's pretty seldom, it's a stick shift. Oh, okay. As you can see, all the trucks since
years in Germany are all automatic. But I said I do want to have a stick and they produce the stick.
I like it too. I just like it. It's better in being off-road and I'm way faster when I need
to change the gears. I have four reverse and 32 gears. 32 gears. Yeah. If I can, I have 16.
Let's see. Yeah, I have eight. You have eight regular gears. Yeah. And then each one a half
with this. Okay. So, I have 16 when I drive normally and then I can reduce the box,
the gearbox and then I have another 16 that are lower than the first 16. Have you ever used it?
Oh yeah, when you go up on a steep hill, I use the reduction and then I maybe go up the hill in
the seventh of the small reducted gears and I can switch the gears better. Oh, I see. Okay. And keep
it in a good rpm. So, okay. I thought it would be more for a really difficult terrain. Yeah,
when the terrain is difficult or steep hills, you use the reduction gearbox. So, up here,
some more switches for lights and this is actually the tire inflation system.
So, I can change the air pressure in the tires while driving and you see that's normal,
that's gravel. Yeah. A little bit more gravel and then sand. Yeah. Okay. You got a nice skylight
here. Yeah, but I don't use that because it's air-conditioned and everything and I have a
roof rack up there. So, I can't open it anyway. Oh, it's covered by the roof rack. I see. Yeah.
I saw some boxes up there. You carry chains and stuff, snow chains? Chains are in the back,
not up there because you can't get them up there. They are too heavy. Too heavy,
eh? I have them in the back, but we have the stuff, for example, in summer the winter clothes
are up here and in winter the summer clothes are up there. Oh, I see. You store them up there. Yeah.
So, obviously, you're just traveling with two, right? Yeah. You have no pet or anything? No.
Okay. Not yet. So, that's the crawl through, pass through. Yeah. Very nice. And this is normally
the space for the bed. Normally, the truckies have a bed here. Yeah. And I have two cupboards
for storage and stuff that you need when you drive. I've seen on YouTube that this is a cooler
or something, right? Yeah. It is, eh? Yeah. Oh, yeah. Yeah, yeah, yeah. Yeah, that was the thing I
was thinking about putting it in, but more wires. Yeah, and more trash. Trash can? Yeah. That's cool.
Yeah, and for cleaning. Oh, yeah. Yeah. You don't have a CB radio? I have it. It's still in the box.
It should be here. Well, you have one. I have one. One day and I have two, a CB and a two meter.
So, the two meter is for long range. Yeah. But I have handhelds, but I will put it in there.
Okay. Question. Navigation. How do you navigate? With cell phone or with another device? No, I have
I have this Garmin. Garmin? Yeah, I have another Garmin and I have a good co-pilot, my wife.
She's pretty good also. Because also she was 17 years in a rally organization. Oh. So,
she's pretty fine in navigation. So, we are a perfect team. Good. That is very good. Yeah.
This Garmin tells you the routes you can go or I'm talking about heights. Yeah, I can type in
different styles. As you can see here, height and weight and everything. And then it tells me if
there's something not okay. Very nice. It's very comfortable here. And you sit so high above the
street. This is incredible. Yeah. So, what do you think? You want to check out the living quarter?
If you want. Oh yeah. You see the privacy. I'm looking forward to it. Let's check it out.
On the door. Nice door. I can see three locking parts on the door. Nice and sturdy.
Come in and look out. Come in and look out. Yeah. Nice. Aha. There's a seating area here to my right.
That's an L-shape. It's kind of unusual. Yeah, it is pretty unusual. But I haven't seen it often
an L-shape kind of thing. Because most people are sitting across from each other or they have
the U-shape kind of. Yeah. Yeah. That's the most. But the U-shape I say is too much room for two.
And the opposite seating is not nice. Because we can lay down like on a sofa and we have the TV
there. Oh, okay. I'll show that in a moment. Yeah. So, we decided to do it a little bit different.
This is a good oak. We cut the oak. Cut the boards. Include them together.
So, that's the opposite of the modern Ikea kitchen. So, what? The furniture is all Ikea.
Ikea? So, it's all kitchen furniture from Ikea that I remodeled. You know, I added the push locks.
Aha, yeah. Yeah. But it's all Ikea and it works like at home. That's cool. Yeah, when you
and there I put two. They are more secure. Yeah. Because everything is Ikea.
Yeah, that's cool. That's a simple way to do it, right? But effective. Yeah. I'm surprised that these
sizes they fit in here. Yeah. Some of them from the beginning everything is Ikea. Ikea.
This is all and the last doors had to been cut. Yeah, of course. Yeah. Also, this one because
this is a shorter than the normal measurement. Yeah. I just cut it. Well, but this is an incredible
long kitchen. It starts basically here to my left and it goes all the way to the back there.
So, if you would tell us what you have here. You know, like, I mean, this is plenty of workspace
here. Yeah, you know, kind of those. All the spices. The pull-out pantry. Yeah.
And this is an Ikea convection oven. 240 volts and that's a normal household Bosch induction.
Because we decided not to have propane inside. I have only propane outside. Yeah, okay. On the
outside kitchen. Oh, we must have missed it. Yeah, maybe we missed something in the outside. Oh,
yeah, that would be neat to see. I have the normal water system and then I have one water
system for drinking water that is cleaned one time more. That's what you said. You run it twice
through the filter system. But this always has two filters just before the faucet. Oh, it's underneath
in there. Underneath in there. I see. Okay. Because this is the water for drinking and that's the
normal water. Yeah, that's a hood fan. This is 12 volts. That's from camping stuff. The only
cabinets that I built by myself is this side because, you know, it was too hard and too much
work to change the Ikea ones. Yeah. So, I built them by myself completely and you can see that's
a little bit. So, I have a little bit different color. This is whitey and not glossy white. Yeah.
Okay. So, also, this is normal fiberglass wallpaper because I didn't like that
that cooling house interior that the normal boxes have. When you buy a box for a camper,
the inside is all white and looks like a meat cooling house. A meat cooler. Yeah, and I didn't
like that. So, fiberglass wallpaper. Yeah. And then we painted just normal, just like in an apartment
or and then we you can see this is silver and that's we call it D-Bond. Yeah, here it's called
Alucobond. Alucobond. That's, yeah, two sides aluminum and in the inner side it's vinyl. Yeah.
And they have different styles and you can later see I have in the shower one wall that is yellow
and in the bathroom one is black. So, yeah, to see to make it a little bit different and make
it a little bit unique. Of course. Yeah. Yeah. So, this looks to me like a household fridge.
Actually, it is. It looks like a household fridge, but it's a little company in Munich, Germany,
Kisman. They produce only cooling boxes for campers, boats, all that moving stuff.
So, you can order it in any way in 12 volts, in 24 volts, in 120, in 240. So, you can order it like
you want to have it. They have different sizes and everything. And this one can 24 volts and
it's running on 24 volts since I bought it. Oh. Since 18. And I never had it on 240, but it can.
Okay, yeah, yeah, yeah. So, you run it on 24 and it works fine? Yeah. Even the freezer? Even the
freezer. Nice. The freezer is perfect. Very nice. Really, we have, we are here in North America, we're missing bread.
German bread. So, always when I get to a German bakery where they have good bread, I buy a bunch.
Yeah. And put it in the freezer. And put it in the freezer. Yeah, yeah, makes sense. Yeah. Yeah. Okay.
And then here? Yeah, we have one gimmick we like with coffee. So, we have a real Italian
coffee maker. Nice. With a grinder. So, this. Espresso machine. Espresso machine. Nice. Yeah. And
this is a little Bosch dishwasher and it uses a few liters. It's, I can't tell you how much,
I can't remember, but. But your sink is pretty small. Ah, good, you can, it's something in here or something.
Yeah, yeah, but still, it's a pretty, a fairly small sink. Yeah. Not huge. Yeah. So, that can't be really much,
maybe 10, 12 liters. And then you got more storage underneath? Yeah, for the. Oh, no. Oh, yeah, we saw it from the backside.
Yeah, that's a. Yeah. Yeah, we saw it from the backside. That's a washer dryer. Washer dryer. Yeah, it can dry also,
but we normally just wash and hang it outside. Air dry it then. Because it's too much energy.
I see your entertainment system there, sticking out. Yeah, yeah, you can pull it out and turn it,
and then when we are laying on the sofa. Yeah. We can watch some TV. Yeah, that's nice. Yeah,
that's why the launcher, that's why the L-shape, that makes sense now. Yeah, yeah, yeah. Yeah.
So, what do you watching there? Like some of your flash drive or you're streaming something on the
internet? Yeah, we mainly now stream on the internet. In the beginning we had a normal SIM card with that
router here. Yeah, okay. Pretty good system. Yeah. But actually we are not using it anymore, because
since two years we have Starlink. Oh, you have Starlink? Yeah, so I bought Starlink, that RV version,
and it worked everywhere. Really? Yeah, it doesn't matter where you are. You would recommend it, huh?
I think... If you turn around, you see the... Yeah, that was when I... It's just, holy smokes,
that looks like a jet, you know, all the switches. Don't look at that hole. What hole? Yeah,
there's a hole, because I had something here, and I had to repair it and put it back on.
I see. I didn't do it yet. I see. And that's... Nobody looks at the hole here. At this, nobody
looks at this hole. Yeah, so you see, okay, actually everything, nearly everything is in
written in German. Everything nearly, because... A fridge? Yeah, because Kühlschrank was too long.
Oh, okay. So, yeah. Okay. So I have that system. I switch off the light and I see it better.
That system is pretty good. That's Filippi. So you see the battery?
Then you see all the tanks? Yeah. The solar. When I'm plugged in, it shows me,
but I'm not plugged in right now. Normally, I don't plug in. So that's shore power? Yeah,
that's shore power. And then here I have the temperature of the temperature coming from the
engine, the temperature of my water heater, and the temperature of my heating system,
and the all-over temperature of my fresh water, because then I see if it will freeze. I see.
Ah, okay. Okay, good. Yeah. Yeah, and then here, yeah. And this is... 24-volt system?
That are switches. They are the breaker in one. So if something happens, this LED will show red
and it says the breaker is off. Oh, so that's a fusion behind it? Yeah, it's a fuse. Ah, okay.
It's a breaker switch. I see, okay. Yeah, I don't want to show you the inside. The inside is a lot
of wires. A lot of wires, yeah. And then we have the back part of it. Yeah, you want to go ahead?
Yeah, it's a little bit, I must say, narrow, but we are only two. So we have the shower in here.
Oh, here's the yellow wall you were mentioning. That's a lucobond? That's also a debond.
Debond, you call it. And a fan. Yeah, and that's pretty helpful, because when you shower
and you have the moisture in the shower, you switch on the fan and it just pulls out or sucks
out the moisture. Yeah. So it will not go into... Yeah. And then... It doesn't go into the habitat
Okay. And I can say goodbye. Yeah. Because now I'm closing...
Oh. So the bathroom and the sleeping compartment is closed. Yeah, okay. And
I see. What is in there? You have to look by yourself, but it's not suitable for two.
Oh, okay. So, I see. Let me have a look. Ikea also. It's Ikea also. Oh, that's big.
A big washroom here. Normal set. I would say even a bigger sized sink and a mirror.
And a heater. And a warm water heater here, again. A towel heater and a toilet. And that toilet is a
normal water flushing toilet? Yeah, it's a accelerator. Oh, yeah. So basically it smashes
the number two. Yeah, it grinds. It grinds it. They say accelerator, but it's a grinder. Okay,
okay. Yeah, we don't have to talk about details there, you know. But yeah, no, it basically makes
it to the water. Yeah. And this is what you mentioned, you know. Three of those heat up
the whole thing. The whole thing. One is in the bathroom and one is here. And the third one is...
Oh, right there, yes. Yeah, right in the entrance. Yeah, they run by hot water, which gets... Comes
from the engine or from the little Eberspecher heater. Eberspecher heater. Yeah, okay. And then
here behind me is the sleeping area. There's a bed. Two meters in length, correct? Yeah. Two meters.
So this is a queen size. Yeah. Queen size bed. Nice skylight to see the stars at night,
you know. And for this little room, the extra AC. Yeah, so it runs with 24 volts. 24 volts. And
that's pretty good, because then I don't have to use the inverter to change to 240. And the
condenser is on the roof? Everything on the roof. Everything is on the roof. It's a split, yeah.
But I must admit, the shower is big. Yeah, it's big. And you have only one drain there in the corner.
Actually, that part I was welding first, because I was so excited to start to build it.
And I missed to do a second one. I see. But during the years, I know how I have to power...
It drains, yeah. So we park in the way that it drains. Yeah, that makes sense. Do you have any
leveling equipment? No, I was thinking about leveling equipment, but no, we didn't do it.
Because it's for that size truck, it must be heavy. Okay, I have the hydraulic pump and I have
everything. It would have been easy, but we never needed it. I never missed it. I'm now standing
back here in the kitchen. And this is the last little bit, which we haven't covered yet.
And that is storage. Storage. Those are the things you need. Paperwork, cables, stuff like this.
And then we have all our clothing in little boxes, so that they don't fall around.
And this is all storage. With the boxes, it's convenient, because you can take the whole box
out. And I have drawers in here also. And hangers down there. So actually, the hangers go all the
way down, because I have... This is the second floor. It's about 40 centimeters higher than the box.
Yeah, because all the tanks are down there. And this, the hanger for the shirts and everything,
they go all the way down. Oh, they go to the original floor? To the original floor.
Yeah, you have two steps here, you see. We are a little bit higher.
I see. So this is basically... Down there is the level from the original floor.
And then I have that second floor. Under my floor are all the tanks.
A lot of technique down there. All the technique is down there.
The technique basement. Yeah. Okay, cool. Thanks, Peter. Yeah, that is a
very, very nice living quarter. And he built it all himself.
That is impressive. That is next level. Awesome. There is a stainless steel ladder to get better
in and out of the bed. Very nice. Yeah, let's see the outdoor kitchen.
Now, Peter, your outdoor kitchen. I'm curious to see it, because it is not really planned for mine.
I know where it belongs, where it will be, but not fully planned yet. So I'm always open for ideas.
It's not really a big kitchen. It's mainly, I say, a beaver that I built. So the thing is,
I had to do it in the way that it really fits in. Because this beaver I already had before.
A beaver? Yeah. I say it's a beaver. Okay.
It's a little bit dirty, but it's because it has two 800 degrees
burners. And you put the meat there and the heat comes from above.
Burn it hard in a few seconds, so the moisture stays in the meat. Yeah,
so you know what you're talking about. Okay. Yeah, so that's basically your grill. Yeah.
Right. That's a barbecue. A barbecue, yeah. And if we have some problems or we want to do
cooking outside, we can do it also. Yeah. And then you have two burner cooktop. Yeah.
Yeah. And then you set up a table outside somewhere. Yeah. Nice. Motion. I can imagine
this is pretty effective. This is pretty efficient, you know, to prepare your meat.
But you still see there's a little, it's a little dusty because I think I'm driving the
Dempster Highway. There's so much dust. Yeah. That I guess the dust came through the logs.
I think the logs are not really, really tight. You see there's some dust here. Okay. Very good.
Nice. This is an incredible rig, Peter. And you were saying that you have been in Africa
and then Russia, you know, North America. Yeah. It's almost around the world.
Yeah, we will see where we go on. We are not planning really much. We just drive.
Yeah. How long are you on the road now? Since 2019.
Five, oh no, four years now. Yeah. Wow. Full time living in this. We sometimes interrupt
because we have to fly home. We have the parents still. So sometimes you have to go home and maybe
rest a month and take care of stuff at home and then come back. So I had it already, I think two
times or three times in storage. Nice. Okay. Peter, thank you very much. It was incredible.
Thank you very much. And have fun watching the video.
