Mike Takes Rough Military Truck and Builds Ultimate Overland Camper Rig - Drive the Globe Rig

Do you remember a couple of years ago, a guy named Mike Ladin, had an orange Unimog. Gosh, it was one of my very first rig walk-a-while, weird, did actually at Overland Expo East, 20, but it was one of my first and it was one of my favorites because it was just such an interesting, interesting thing. And today we're going to look at 2.0. Actually, it's not even 2.0. 3.0. So we've got Mike Ladin. Can we hear you, Mike? Yes, can you hear me? Yeah. All right. We got Drive the Globe. So if you remember the Unimog, the orange Unimog, you have to go back and look at the YouTube channel. You can probably, you can probably search YouTube for Drive the Globe, but that was a 79 Dukka, right? 79, 1979. Yep, and I had it for like 12 years. You guys didn't see this because I was on a little YouTube sabbatical last year, but he'd came through our area and you had a whole trailer, a whole build out. I mean, it was, it was a, it was a great, it was a great build out, but you missed out on that, especially missed out if you didn't get to buy it because he just sold it. I did. I went to a great family actually out in Salt Lake City. Really? Yep. Why don't you tell us what this is and kind of maybe give us a little bit of a... This truck is a 1994 Storton Stevenson made in Texas. U.S. military truck. It actually spent its life down at Fort Bragg, North Carolina. It came to me with only 6,500 miles on it. The military, the military doesn't use stuff, right? They drive it around the base. So it was low mileage, but it was just a green camo box. Inside it had, this is what they call a comm unit kind of. So it had the box on the back. Okay. And the reason that I, that I found it and really wanted to get this truck is because I had built out that Overland trailer behind the Unimog. It takes a lot of effort, a lot of money, a lot of time to build the actual box. And this already had a box on it. So I knew I could build out just the house. Just build the inside. And the inside, so. I actually had stumbled upon it. It was down in Florida. It was near the time that I saw you and he had already done some work on it that I was going to do anyways. And I had lived in the Unimog and the trailer for, I don't know, 13 months. And I said, you know, it's not quite big enough. So I looked at this. I said, that's double, at least double the living space. These trucks, it's a 94. It's modern. It's no longer. And to me it was modern because it had automatic transmission. I put in air conditioning. It has a air ride suspension. Can you drive at highway speeds? And it drives faster. I would not call this fast in any way, shape or form, but it drives faster. Right. Did the bumper, did it have the bumper? Did you make the bumper? No, bumper was on. Okay, bumper was on. Largely this truck is stock. So one of the things that's unique to the Unimog is the portal axles, which really brings your center, keeps your center of gravity low, if you will, but your ground clearance really high because it pushes your diffs up. This obviously does not have the portal axles. So I've lost, I think I lost two and a half inches of ground clearance on this truck because these tires are bigger. Are they bigger? Yeah, these are 47s and the Unimog had 44s. 47 inch tires. What kind of tires are these? Those are Goodyear. They're Goodyear tires, okay. The chassis is Storton Stevenson, which is the chassis that they bought from Europe. The engine power plant is a Caterpillar 6.6 liter diesel, turbo diesel, and it's made it to a seven speed automatic Ellison transmission. So common stuff. You can stop at any truck. That's one of the issues I have with the Unimog. This truck, it's a common power plant, was in, largely was in, you know, bulldozers. It was found in some marine stuff and also in RVs. Can we look inside the cab? We can. Let's do it. Oh, you got so much room. So yes, compared to the Unimog, this is like a Cadillac. Once I like said, it's got air brakes. It's got automatic push button transmission over here. It's got power steering. Amenities that I didn't have in the Unimog, like a radio. You can listen to music because in here, you can actually hear it. I kind of redid the cab, completely insulated it under both underneath and inside. This is the actually the first truck that I've ever had that had AC in it. The Unimog didn't have AC. Unimog did not have any AC. No, I got my satellite tracker and my Garmin Overlander, and I got backup camera system, which I mounted up on top here. This is the control panel here for central tire inflation right here, which is nice because you know what? We're driving along and we're in the Baja and we're going down a pavement. We ditch off into a dirt road. You hit this thing right here that says sand and your tires are deflating as you drive. Nice. Going along and back to road. You hit back on the highway and up they go. So you've got your fridge in here. Yeah, so this cab, and you can remember the Unimog one. This is so, I mean, even though that was a four-door, this has got way more headroom. Well, yeah, because the Unimog, you were- Oh, you'd be touching your head on the ceiling. Yeah, for sure. I've got plenty of room here, and I put, I believe this is three inches of foam padding, but this is a two-door, but yes, I fit my Dometic fridge. This is a 55 liter fridge. Most of my camera gear I can store behind the seat. I got my Onewheel back here, but it's night and day, night and day. And the seats, probably the most expensive thing on this entire build, honest to God, was the Shihoman seats. They are not cheap by any stretch of the imagination, but they are incredibly comfortable. And when you're gonna do some Road Warrior stuff on occasion, comfort's a big thing. Everything that you see here electronically, I wired through my house batteries. I didn't want to mess with the actual truck part of this operation. So I left the truck largely stock. So all of this stuff, and everything's on a switch, so I can turn everything off manually anyways. This panel up on the top here is all my overhead off-road lighting. And this whole box I installed, this is from a later store in Stevenson. This has air conditioning. The stock truck, when I bought it, did not. It was just a heater. So all of this, this whole pod up here was basically just looked, just fit in. It was just a heater, yeah. Okay, cool. Shall we go take a look out back? Let's do it. All right, we're gonna go up on the roof. Check this out. And I'm gonna do it one-handed, maybe. Try not to die, or at least fall and break something. One of these days I will, yeah, exactly. Ha ha, made it. Excellent. We're on a roof. We're on the roof. So, wow, oh, wow. Holy crap. We didn't get on the roof of the Unimog. We did not. And so you've got a huge. It's my solo stove. Okay. Platform to stand on to get up here. These are, like I said, these are my Alubox storage for cycling gear. Okay. I'm a big cyclist, so that's where the helmets and the shoes and the whatever else you need is all in these boxes. Under here, there's three pods. That pod has the AC unit for the cabin, for the house. Under here is a 2200 watt Honda generator. Two propane tanks are mounted in there. By the way, the generator runs on propane. Okay. And in here are the eight Battle Born lithium batteries, so I have 800 amp hours of lithium. So my first thought is, are there any concerns with having all this weight stored up high? Not really, because, and I am a weight fanatic. Right, I know. That's why I was thinking. This truck really is made to handle that kind of weight. Yeah. The weight up high, it's not a ton of weight, really. I mean, the batteries are obviously much lighter than an AGM battery would be. That's that unit, and you'll see when we go inside, the AC unit is a window unit. Okay. It doesn't weigh that much. Probably the heaviest thing might be the generator, but even that, I think it's only like 30 pounds. How thick is it from the surface of the roof deck to the ceiling inside the home? So what's nice about, and the main reason that I picked this truck to build on, is that the M1079, it's almost like a refrigerator box. It's aluminum, so it's got thick aluminum wall on both sides, and then aluminum frame, and then it's all insulated inside that. But it's about, I believe it's between three and four inches thick. Both ceiling, floor, and the wall. So how do you get up there? Yeah, you step in between the red. You've got a ton of solar. Is this, no, it's- 1,200. 1,200, okay. So there are 12 100-watt Renogy solar panels. So you're soaking up a little bit today. I actually, at max today, we haven't seen the sun, I don't think at all. Not really. I had about, my readings are coming in at about 72 volts, and I had about 310 watts coming in. So 310 at a 1,200. So yes. Small percentage, but when you have enough, 310 watts is quite a bit. And with the reserve power of 800 amp hours, I've got three or four days probably without sun, or at least sun conditions like this, which is almost nothing. So this is 1,200, I could have put 1,400 in here, but I decided I wanted a nice sunset, sunrise viewing deck up here. Yeah, well- You could nicely fit two chairs and a table. If you're at a beach in Baja, or if you're at some sort of scenic overlook, this may be the place to hang out. It's the best view of the Overland Expo here right now. The back bump out right there. So I added, so this was the stock truck. And then that bump out in the back was a five foot bump out that I put in to house basically my bedroom, and put my bed in. On the roof there, you can see a Maxxair vent fan. That's above the bed. I don't recall awnings on the Unimog. No, I had, I did have an Allu-Cab 370 degree shadow on on the trailer. These are actually Dometic powered awnings. So it's nice, you roll into camp, you hit a button, they deploy. Just RV awnings. What's nice about them, and usually you'd only put one on one side and not the other, but I put them on both sides. So I've noticed that you can cut down the sun coming in and heating up the windows. Shall we take a look inside? Or maybe on the side and then we'll work our way in. All right, so what do we have here? So we've got the 47 inch spare. Yep. What's nice about this truck, also in comparison to the Mog, is that if I open this up, you can see this has all air over hydraulics. So I can lower the tire by basically a push of a button. That's chow. And lowers the tire down and also raises the tire, which was the most common question before, is how do you get the tire off the truck? Well, getting it off is easy. It drops to the ground, right? Correct, right. Getting it up was the problem. Well here, getting up is not a problem any longer. Just roll it into the mount and it lifts it back up. And this also controls the cab. So one of the other nice things about this vehicle, it's cab over. The cab lifts completely off here. You got total access to the transmission and the engine. I've always wondered about that. You need to have everything secured inside the cab. I do and I do. I have everything secured. I always do a last minute check. I look, I go, okay, we're secure. Goes up. I mean, really goes up. It's like, it's up pretty almost straight. How big's the fuel tank? What's the fuel tank capacity? Fuel tank's about, it's almost 60 gallons. Okay. So I don't know the fuel mileage yet. I haven't really tested it out and I'm not sure of the accuracy of what I'm getting from the gauges. But I would say normally, and most people will tell me, it's somewhere probably between seven and 10 miles a gallon. Regular diesel? Regular diesel. No def? No def. This is a 94, so it's pre-def. Yeah, I thought so. So anything about- And it's a CAT 3116, so it's a mechanical injection. So it's not electronic. Stock military, this box would end right here. Okay. This had a bunch of big, gigantic electrical hookups. I kind of reconfigured it, I guess, if you will, and put 110 outlets outside. This is my outdoor shower. So I can hook up either a hose, which I use to cook on the scottle, or I can put a shower that mounts up here so you get an outdoor shower. And then you've got three panels up here. Were they just panels before and you cut them out for the windows? No, so great thing about this is that the military had, those are military windows. Okay. So this truck actually had three windows on each side. Oh. I blanked in one on this side and two on the other so I could get more room for my shower and my bathroom. Got it. And this is behind where my wardrobe is. So what did you do? How did you attach this rear box? So the rear box, the five foot box here, is bolted on. It's bolted on and then it's then caulked and sealed and riveted. All the corners are riveted. The seams are riveted. How do you do a rivet? This is a rudimentary question. It hurts, it hurts. I did them by hand. You could do them, I had an air rivet gun, and of course I couldn't find it when I had to do the project. So next thing I know, I'm hand riveting. Every one of these is hand riveted. So you gotta drill them, rivet them. It was work. So you built this back box from scratch, right? Yeah, back box is scratch. This was your fabrication and then? So originally the truck in the back here had two van doors that opened. Okay. They called this, by the way, this is a 1079 van. Okay. So it had just big van doors. Deleting the van doors, which were huge and heavy, and the inside plates that they had. This was a comm truck, so they had a bunch of communications gear and stuff. They had steel plates on the floor. Probably took out like 1,500, 2,000 pounds worth of stuff. So then putting the box on the back didn't really increase the weight of the truck. That's zero. What is that ring up there? Those were lifting rings. Okay. They could lift this thing up. Why not? And that's how rugged this box, I mean, this is aluminum. Yeah. Like even these are, this is aluminum. This truck can tow just to virtually anything. So I've got a regular military pintle hitch. I put on a regular class three receiver. Put a little bike workshop mount here so I can work on my bikes. So I basically designed it like a North American RV where your living side is on the right side of the vehicle and on their driver's side is where your hookups are. So over here, we put in a, this is the gray tank underneath. It's a 20 gallon gray tank. So all the plumbing comes down underneath here. All my water for the truck is inside the house. So there is no external water lines or external water tanks, which is nice. Because if I run the heat inside the house, I'm not going to get anything to freeze. And then you can see that's my regular RV connection there. Behind that, I have an air connection so we can fill up other people's tires and whatever you want to do. These are three air tanks. One is for rear, one is for front air brakes, and one is the reserve overflow tank. An onboard compressor that fills. Yep, onboard compressor. This box here is the start batteries. And the military, it was a little bit weird of a setup. There's four huge batteries in here. It puts out the alternators, 100 amp, 24 and 12 volt alternator. So these batteries, there's four batteries in here are wired both in parallel and in series at the same time. I'll be the first guy to admit, I didn't even know that was possible. But they are. What is that? This is the air intake. This is the air filter. Everything's kind of big on this truck. So this is the air filter. That's the snorkel air intake. This is convenient. Unlike the Unimog, I don't know if you remember, I used to have to take the cab apart almost to check the oil. This has external oil, transmission. Watch how long this thing is. This is the transmission. It just kept coming. Yeah, that's my transmission. Let's watch him put that back in. Yeah, that's not so easy. It's like, come on, baby. Come on. You have to like work it. I thought the transmission stick, dipstick on my Cummins was long. That's ridiculous. Wow. Here's your high and low for antifreeze. It's all on the outside here. Yeah. So you're coolant, you can see it. It's great. Everything's easy to get to. That's super awesome. Love it. What's the water fording depth? What do you think? What would you do? Say 60 inches. 60 inches. Five feet. I mean. I've not done it. I'm not sure I would even try it. I mean, people ask me about my truck and I figure I could probably do four feet, but I would never do four feet because four feet of water is a whole lot of water that I would never want to drive through. If it's flowing, it would be bad news if it had any force. But it's something like this, four or five feet, like it's just so big. I don't know. It might be fine. I don't know. I'm not gonna say I'll never try anything because it might be a scenario where we have to do it. Right, but I'm not looking for it. Yeah, not looking for it. So here's your deleted windows back here. Yeah, so there's two deleted windows back there. You can see there's three max air vent fans, wall vent fans. One vents my propane instant hot water heater. Okay. One is in the bathroom and one is in the shower. Okay. So you pull it, suck out the steam. Yep. This is my freshwater fill, which is conveniently located way above where I can reach. And that's the vent. And I discovered, so this is the vent for the water tank. And once again, I said the water tank is inside, but that's the vent for it. And then I figured out I'm driving down the road and I got the tank full and there's water like shooting out the vent. So I came up with this genius idea of putting a cap on it. I can screw the vent closed when I'm driving so it's not shooting water out every time I go around a corner. Well, let's go take a look inside. All right. So these, by the way, that's, those are, I did build that, this thing. So this never obviously had an RV door. This slides out. It's basically just a, you know, a tool shelf slide rated for 400 pounds. And then those, the stairs clip onto that and they all slides in. All right. So we got overland bound number, border to border and you've got shiplap. You have real shiplap. Yeah. With the real nickel gap. It's real, but nothing in this build is made out of wood. Right. Everything is pretty much plastic. Right. So that way you don't have expansion and contraction. You don't have molding, you know, it's just, yeah. No warping. Yeah. You got to keep the weight down too, right? Yeah. That's part of the thing. I was less concerned with weight on this truck than I ever have been before because it's rated for two and a half tons. There was no way in heck I was going to put that much. Right. Back here. No way. It's not going to happen. So immediately walking in. Yep. I mean, I already feel like I'm at home. I mean, you've got, you've got a tile backsplash. You've got butcher block countertops and a fancy sink. I don't know. The number one goal for me since I live in it was to make it feel like home. Right. And oftentimes I'll see like, you know this is a military truck, right? And a lot of times I'll see people, they build them out and they look like military interiors. And I've always wondered why do you want to look like that? Right. So I wanted it to look homey. I went a different route than most people do. Right. I went Ikea. I did Ikea cabinets. Nice. In fact, not only cabinets, everything is Ikea almost. But this lamp, my little Star Wars light here that. I know, I saw that. I was like, is that a Star Wars light? It's a Star Wars lamp. I love it. Which I had to, you know, re-jigger to make it work. To a 12 volt, but. But yeah, so it's all Ikea stuff. But what I didn't have before and I have now and I'm excited about is, you know, I got a kitchen. Right. So, you know, we've got burners. We've got oven. Above that I put a microwave in. I've got that. Vent, you know, hood vent. Right. Fan, exhaust fan. Nice. This is the air conditioning over here. So yeah, so air conditioning, which is just like I said, it's a window unit. You know, 200 bucks at Home Depot. And you know, if it craps out, I can get a different one. But I don't, honestly, I don't use air conditioning that much. I try not to, but. Yeah. This is the Renogy 100 amp solar charge controller. The Renogy DC to DC for when I'm driving. I put that on a switch. So I don't have to charge off the alternator if I don't want to. I have it switched. I can turn it on and off. I don't use it that much, to be honest, because when I'm driving, the solar is still working. Right. What is that? Weather station. Oh, okay. Indoor, outdoor temperature, barometric pressure. So it has some sensors from, on the outside? Yeah, it's got sensors outside too. Well, who makes that? Lacrosse technology. Underneath here is my Skyroam. That's my wireless hotspot. Okay. And then my little control panel over here. This is so different than the Unimog. I actually installed a sound system in here so I can listen to the radio. I can play stuff. These switches are all for, you know, lighting. So I also didn't have that before. To me, it's a luxury. Now I can flick a switch and turn all my lights on and off. Yeah. They're all still individually controlled. Like I can touch it and turn them on too. Yeah. And they're on dimmers too. So if I hold it down, the light will dim. I can change that. You know, I see a lot of similarities between what you did with the trailer and this. This is lighter in color. I feel like the trailer was not- The two biggest things are the same. Same exact ceiling and same exact floor. But yes, like you said, I kind of went for, dare I say, the van life-y look. A little bit light and bright. You know, white surfaces, a little bit lighter because, you know, and this also has way more windows. Right. Well, and when you do light, white, bright colors like that, it makes the interior look bigger. Correct. That's right. So underneath here, this is where my dual zone Dometic pulls out. This is my fridge and freezer. And I had to kind of custom fabricate the IKEA thing to make it, drop it so I could clear the drains for the sink. So that was a little bit challenging. So it's a little tight, but you got it. We did that. And you can see, it's hard to see, but this little square here in the corner that I spray painted black, that's the corner of the water tank. So the 82 gallon water tank is right here. Using all that space that you can't get to under the counter anyway. So this whole thing is a water tank all the way up to the countertop. Got it. And it's just piped and plumbed. It's piped and plumbed out. To the sink. Yeah, under here, this is magnetic panels, pulls off. That's where my Propex heater is for interior heat. Okay. And my water pump and some of my filtration system is under there. Okay. And then I got, this is also IKEA. Two bay farmhouse sink. I love it. Gotta have that. It works. You know, faucet here, all the water, you know, it's got a sprayer and everything. So much more like living in a house. This is my Akuva LED filtration system for water. So when you turn it on, you know, it'll, it lights up blue. Indicate that it's doing it. And in theory that you can suck water out of a pond in Africa and it should be fine. Yeah. I'll let you know when I'm going to do that. You can have your, you can have the first glass where you ship this to Africa someday. Yeah, when it gets there. Roll it on. Yep. And you've got a whiskey and a pump bottle right there at the sink. No, no, that's soap. Oh, bummer. I'm just kidding. But you know, plenty of storage, which is nice. Right. You know, here's all my, you know, food and stuff. And I kind of put extra bungees just to, I put super strong magnets on these cabinets. Okay. And it works. I've never really had anything open up or whatever. I mean, they're, you can pull on them and they're pretty. Right, well, and the bungees hold stuff in place a little bit so it doesn't slide around. Right, and then it doesn't put pressure on the doors so the doors aren't having to work as hard. What do you have over in the corner here? That's my Nespresso machine. Okay. Because I can't go without that in the morning. That is bolted down, so that's not going anywhere. Everything else, you know, anything that isn't bolted down just goes in the sink when I travel. But it takes literally two minutes to leave. That's my controller for my Go Power inverter. That's a 3,000 watt inverter, converter, and charging system. So you have another inverter back here or this is the one that's up here? Yeah, the big unit in here that's a disaster, a mess right now. Oh, got it, got it. I gotta finish that, but yep. That's what's really the brain of the whole operation. This is the controller for my heating system. Okay. You know, and I've got all the propane monitors and smoke alarm system and all that rest. Make sure you're not gonna silently die. Yep, these are remote controls for the awnings. Oh, that's your awnings, okay. Remote control for light. This is a remote control for the vent fan over the bed. The max air, got it. Max air, yep. I don't use it very often, but I can fold this out and that's my sort of kitchen table. And I usually eat at my computer, which is right here. So this opens up and there you go. That's how you work, that's your iMac. And it's all padded in here. So I had to keep taking it down and setting it up every time in the trailer when I moved. Yeah, I remember you had it in the box. Yeah, so now it just rides in here and it's safe. Everything has latches on it. I put latches on everything. All the cabinets have latches, the fridge latches in there, so nothing can move and transport. This is the water closet, I'll call it. WC, it has the toilet. So this is smaller than your bathroom in the trailer, right? Well, yes, because this doesn't have the shower in it. That had the shower in the bathroom, it was combined. This is just simply the toilet and sink room. So you had an interesting comment and nobody knows this comment because this was a private conversation between you and I. And I was remarking at how big your bathroom was in the trailer. And you said something that was really funny. There was a, and you know where I'm going with this. And it was true. And you're like, well, we spend so much time in the bathrooms, I wanted the bathroom to be comfortable. You know, I didn't want it to be like an afterthought. I wanted it to be like kind of a, you know, and I was like, yeah, man, I mean, like I'm in there half hour in the morning, half hour in the night, I'm brushing my teeth, taking a dump, whatever we're doing. Might as well be. It needs to be comfortable, you know, you don't want it to be. And I chose the cassette toilet because I found, I've looked at other things. I've looked at the composting, I've looked at, you know, I could have made it like an RV and I could have put in a black tank. I find the cassette thing is great. You just pull it out, I can take it here. I mean, over at Ann Expo, I just pull it out. It's a six gallon thing. You go dump it in the porta potty. Where do you pull it out? Down here or inside? Okay. This panel pops off. Okay. Slides out. Okay, and you just grab that. Pull it out. There you go. That's it. We have plenty of storage. Way more storage than I had before because you got storage for, you know, in the cabinet and, you know, storage up here for all your toiletries and whatever you want. Was that a mirror up there at the top? This right here? Yeah, mirror, because I'm bald. That way I can see the back of my head. Me too. Make sure when I cut my hair, I don't miss a spot. Exactly, that's where you need it. Sometimes I come out and my wife's like, ooh, you're gonna have to do it again. Yeah, you have a stripe. And I put a TV in this time. That's all wired through my sound system. I can put movies into the iMac and run them on the TV. And then you can go back that way, or you want me to go, I don't know. We both can't fit there, really. Yeah, I guess I'll go back here and you can tell me about it. So, okay, so now you've got the shower. That's your full-size shower now. Not in the bathroom anymore. Just a regular shower, rain head. It's also got the Max AirVent fan light in there. It's a full 34 by 34 inch shower base. And then can you close this off? I mean, I don't see a door here, but maybe- And so one of the reasons I designed it kind of like this, where it was a cross and like this, so if you, I don't care, but if you wanted privacy or something, this door you just open like this, and you pretty much blocked off the rest of your house. So, or you could do this. This is the wardrobe. You know, that kind of does it too, that combination. So this is Ikea as well. I actually had to build this in place. Believe it or not, this Ikea piece was like an eighth of an inch shorter than the height of the ceiling. So I had to build it in place standing up, because normally you would build it and then tilt it up. Couldn't do it that way. I had to build it standing up and then just kind of like micro slide it into place and then screw it in, but. And then you've got more storage right here, I guess. That's all drawers, just drawers, and you know, hanging storage for clothes. Okay, so that's all part of this. Yeah, yeah, it's all the same thing. So what you're looking at back there is the five foot extension that I put on the truck. So that is the bedroom. I call it the bedroom. It's got a full size mattress, a real mattress. I mean, this thing is, I don't know, 14 inch thick mattress or something. I've got all my power plugs back here, you know, for AC and DC and plug and charge and things. I got the two windows. Lots of natural light. And that's what I like about that bedroom thing, because I've got light coming from both sides and from the vent in the roof. And these are the windows where you can pull them down. You got the, you can open it all the way screen and then also blackout. Yep. And then you've got a storage compartment. So you can see where we are right here versus, yeah. This is the wall, by the way, the rear wall of the truck. So that's how thick it is. And then you have more storage down here. Yeah, that opens up. That's kind of where I, that's just like a, you know, rough done sort of opening up. That's under the bed. That's where I keep dirty laundry, you know, spare paper towels, toilet paper. I keep actually my spare bike wheels under there. All light stuff pretty much goes in the back. You know, all the windows have shades on them. So they pull down, they're all blackout kind of shades, which is nice. Pop, you pop, pop. Yeah, so these are, these are the military windows. The screens come out. Yep. And then the military window just goes like this. It opens up. Okay, got it. So it's kind of cool. You can open it up partway. Yeah, that is cool. I usually keep this one closed because otherwise I hit my head on it when you go upstairs. Yeah, so. So once again, Mike, it was an absolute pleasure to see something that you have created like pretty much from scratch. About the only thing you didn't make was the truck. You know what I mean? Yeah, and I don't want to do that. But yeah, and it took, you know, full time for like maybe two to four months, I'd say. I moved in in two months and it finished in four. Yeah, so you were telling me that earlier. You said about, I mean, were you exaggerating a little bit when you said 18 hours a day for like four months? No, no, unfortunately I wasn't. I literally started, so what happened is I came back from the South, sold the Unimog, and then had like a deadline. So I had a deadline because I was losing my house and I had to move in here. So I got it to be move-in ready April 8th. I moved in June 9th. So it was slightly one day over two months. Oh, that's brutal. Do you have any idea, well, you do. You told me earlier. Do you mind sharing like an estimated cost, what you have into it? Yeah, I mean, I bought the truck for like 18 and I have probably close to 82,000-ish into it at this point. No, that's him doing all the work, obviously. You know, if he was paying somebody else, that number would be completely different, but. And one of the reasons I can save some of the money is because the box was already on the truck. Right. You'd spend a lot of money, probably 30 grand, I would guess, building the box. Yeah, I can imagine. I can imagine that would be. So, you know, I got a lot of people asking me, you know, well, how much was it? And I'm like, he built it. Well, how much did he cost? How much did it cost to build? And that's a really complicated question with a complicated answer because, you know, you could have gone cheaper or way more depending on how you would want to do something like this. I don't have the ability to do stuff like this. I would like to figure out how to do stuff like this. I think you probably do. It might be a time for you, for sure. That's right, that's right. It's not that I couldn't, I just don't have the know-how currently. But anyway. Watch a lot of YouTube. Yeah, that's right. I really, really appreciate it. All right, man, thank you. Yeah, absolutely. Good seeing you again. Make sure you like this video, subscribe, all that fun stuff. Otherwise, we'll see you guys in the next video.