Great Dale

The Gel battery I bought a couple of years ago wasn’t operating as well as I liked and the charger was almost constantly running. So I decided to upgrade to a 200AH LiFe Pro battery instead. I bought it just before the COVID crisis, so it was reasonably priced with free shipping. I was also […]

Our friend tried his hand at carving wood for the first time and started with the first Great Dale House Car tiki.

Some friends were displaying their trailers at the Forney Museum and suggested to the power that be that our house car might make a fine addition to the exhibit. Stop by to see our house car and many more fantastic trailers and cars at the museum!

The 1st revision of the swamp cooler looked like this and its description can be found at http://greatdalehousecar.com/great-dale-swamp-cooler/. Then I added some vent hose to help direct the cooling where we wanted it. Everyone made fun of it, so I switched to one large vent hose.  The blue media released a bunch of particles that gummed

Everything mechanical was running great, so I decide to mess with.  A 22 gallon tank doesn’t give us much range, so I up-sized to a 43ish gallon tank that is EFI ready if I ever decide to get fuel injection. I couldn’t find anyone to build and install it form me, so I had to

We’ve always had a problem with the door on the Great Dale. There was no way to latch it open and it would blow around in the wind. I tried a standard RV door latch in the beginning, but the bedroom windows sick out too far. Larry tried a couple of options when he re-skinned

The Great Dale Swamp Cooler prototype is complete and tested. This is a modification of a modification of the home depot swamp coolers that people usually build for Burning Man. I made a couple previously for burning man and learned a lot from my mistakes. The idea here is that you can get better cooling

We took a trip to Santa Fe and Albuquerque, NM.  We pulled the Mini all the way there and the Torquemonster performed perfectly.