🚐 Drop Box RV COMPLETE! Name Reveal, Final Review & Full Walkthrough

Welcome to Dude RV. I appreciate you stopping by. Y'all ready? We're gonna go old school. Y'all ready to go old school? This is Bob Barker, RV guy extraordinaire. I'm hanging out here at the lake with my brand new 2026 Dude RV traveling special. This is perfect for the Dude RV adventures. We are prepared to shoot your most excellent videos. We're going to be sleeping in total comfort and style thanks to that mini split air conditioner from V4. This bad boy weighs in less than 1,500 pounds, so you can pull it with just about any little old pickup. We are set up with a big six inch, eight inch, super soft rvmattress.com mattress with that cold air coming from V4. Thank you very much. Rent Pro provided doors and windows make this easy to get in and out of. We are 12 volt off grid ready. Yappy interrupted. So anyway, so I transferred the awning from the truck onto the trailer and I like it so much better here. And it gives me that additional in the event that it starts raining, but it works out better. I like it. Added another cargo module on the front so that I can store some additional stuff. And then I finished out the module on the rear and we've got a solid physical connection there. I screws, I bolts. That is for hanging solar panels because we have 300 watts of solar that charge our 320 watt life pole four battery that powers the air, the refrigerator and the air conditioner and the CPAP machine. Did I show you? Go ahead. I have a plug so if I'm in a park like I am right now where I have 110, I have a plug back there for the CPAP machine. Otherwise I have a 12 volt brick to power it off of the battery. That's been running for about 20 minutes and it's already freezing cold in here. The final, so this module, this is actually the kayak rack. This is the big pedal kayak. Pelican sits on side there. I have mounted a holder for the paddle, security to keep stuff from walking off. We are styling and profiling. That is, for now, that's finished. I'll provide, we'll have a shopping list, a whole list of the components that went into this in the description down below. I've put together a shopping list on Amazon for these products because just all of it came from Amazon except for the wood. I think I haven't weighed it since I added the other two modules but I'm thinking we've probably added a couple hundred pounds so we're probably at about 1500 pounds. That's actually quite perfect. It doesn't bounce going down the road. It's solid. As far as the cost goes, that's a hard one for me to actually quantify because I bought this trailer 20 years ago for a hundred bucks and then spent a couple hundred dollars turning it into a good solid utility trailer. Then I remodeled it again and now I've done it a third time. We have to take that out of the equation but you could expect to spend five to six hundred dollars on a trailer. That's just, you gotta have the trailer so 600 bucks. Now the box, really I didn't do a whole lot of elaborate construction here. I got the big four by four beam all the way around so I got a good solid frame to yank on and then I took dimensional lumber, two by fours, and I cut them in half and made one and a half by one and a half. One and three quarter by one and three quarter and built frame the wall with that. There's four sheets of plywood on the outside and four sheets of plywood on the inside and I didn't pay for most of the plywood and I bought some that was cull for two sheets for free. Two sheets I bought years ago and then I had to buy two sheets and they were like 40 bucks so let's just call it an average of $40 per sheet, $320 on average. We'll say our framework was about $400. So we're at $900 with the trailer and the wood, about 900 bucks and then we get into the components. So this was $300. I paid for that it was $380 something like that and then this was $100 so we're $400. That's going to be about $200, $600 and then that one over there was $700 in windows and doors. And then paint. Let's talk about paint because I painted this with probably the most expensive paint I could find at $85 a gallon, oil-based enamel for metal, but it was on clearance. Someone had had it tinted and it was the wrong color so I picked up a gallon for $30 and that stuff was so thick going on it was yeah there's two good solid coats on there. I'm very happy with it. So far I've been able to camp off grid without any issues. All right I gotta go I gotta go do my thing here at Fort Parker State Park. So I got distracted. In the background did you see that that travel trailer rolling in? Anyway that's a follower of the channel stopped and started talking to me and I forgot where I was in shooting the video. So we were talking about numbers and as I mentioned this it's kind of hard to give you an exact tabulation on what this cost because I didn't pay for a lot of the components. But having run the you know as I'm sitting here at the as I'm building that shopping list on Amazon and looking at the prices that I've paid for the electrical components and some of the things really surprised me as to the hardware costs like for these they were like $70 just for to the hardware to connect that. So with the leveling jacks and all components I don't think I could build this for literally less than $3,000 with all of as is and putting all the fancy components. Now you wouldn't have to spend that much to have a usable drop box trailer. You could use a 110 air conditioner since you if you're just going to a state park. You wouldn't have to have a 12 volt mini split. You wouldn't have to have 320 amp hours of battery in the solar panels. So but literally and I didn't even calculate what the solar panels cost. So there's another couple hundred bucks. So you're you're to get off grid like this it's you're gonna have to invest a little money but it's still better than what I could buy because you can't buy that. Yeah and it wouldn't all have to be done at one time you could do it in small increments which is how this this accumulated in small increments. So this didn't happen I just didn't run out and buy all the stuff over the years. Buy a piece shows up it goes in the building. Piece shows up it goes in the building. So I'm saying 35 it would take it would I would have to spend three thousand four thousand dollars to to build this if I were to pay for all the components. Yeah I'll leave it at that. All right moving right along. I failed to tell you we have a name. Now you know everything on YouTube has to have a name. All the cars have to have a name. Everything has to have a name. So when we got when we picked up the big motor home we ended up naming her after Norse mythology the Norse god Thor. His he he actually had a wife and kids and and one of his kids was her name was Thrud which in anglic translates to Trudy. And so we went down the rabbit hole of naming everything after the Thor's family. So we have the Valkyrie which is the the e-bike well of course I did that that was already uh white lightning we already called that white lightning and I haven't named Poseidon maybe I don't know that's not Norse. Anyway so when I was talking to a friend the other day and he said is that actually an RV or is that the dog house when you make yappy mat and that got me to thinking I wonder there's Thor. Did Thor have a dog? And sure enough Thor's dog had some he was a he's a serious dog he had some magical powers but Thor's dog was named Thorry. So meet Thorry the Norse dog. 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