Bought a mobile, fold down, bush hut.

[gamehunter6o]

I lost access to a large private block I have hunted for 30 plus years, so needed a change of hunting plan. I will now travel to new country and hunt other deer species which will require camping as huts are not plentyful.
My wife found a secound hand, imported, french made, fold down caravan on Trademe.
Just the thing for mobility and has double glassing, sink, fridge, under floor gas heater, only weighs 600kgs and is up in less than a minute.
I raised the torsion bar suspension by changing angle of bar to give 4" extra clearance for rough tracks and am making skirts along each side out of paper machine 'wet felt' to prevent too many scatches while bashing bush tracks.
What a palace.
http://i450.photobucket.com/albums/qq225/mossoprd/Caravan007.jpg
http://i450.photobucket.com/albums/qq225/mossoprd/Caravan006.jpg
http://i450.photobucket.com/albums/qq225/mossoprd/Caravan004.jpg

[Bighorn hunter]

Sweet rig, any pics of the interior?

Cheers
BH

[Gateholio]

Slick pop up trailer tent!:-D

[Phil]

Blimey! I've never seen one with hard sides like that before. Should be good for all weather conditions.

[Brew]

i have not looked at one of them before. like a tent trailer but with solid walls. pretty cool. I'm jealous, good find. whats the interior like?

[bearhunter338-06]

Where can one find one......

[Steeleco]

They are cool little rigs, I've seen similar in the UK. Wonder why they didn't market them here??

Must have something to do with the steering wheel being on the wrong side of the tow vehicle LOL

[gamehunter6o]

Where can one find one......

Google Esterel folding caravans. 18ft one for sale in England for 1900 pound. A guy in NZ imports them. Mine is a like new 1993 model 3.3m X 1.9m inside. Cost $9000NZ inc.Gst ($6450CAN)

[Shooter]

I used to own one similar to that. The only real difference is that when set up mine was like a teepee. The two halves of the roof just layed down on top of each other and when you lifted them up the side walls just flipped out and locked into place. It was a real sweet rig. Had a stove, heater, porta potti, and two tables that both folded down into double beds. I sure wish I still had it. I have no idea who made them and I don't even have any pics that I can share.

[Shooter]

Ahhhh here it is... Well not the same one mine was built like in the late 70's early 80's but pretty much the same thing.

http://www.roamingtimes.com/rvreports/aliner-folding-camping-trailer.aspx

[Barracuda]

you probably had a chalet. EDIT:-D

Ignore this:-D you allready found the make you had they still make them they are really nice.

never understood why they were not more popular here .


there is also one called an Apache if you can find one which are pretty neat.(saw one up country for sale )



small and light enough to take anywhere by a normal vehicle .


http://www.chaletrv.com/

[Shooter]

Ya it seems there are a couple makers of them. For some reason the Apache rings a bell tho. It was almost 15 years ago that I owned it tho so hard to say.

[Barracuda]

the apache one we saw had the popout side and looked just like a regular tent trailer except that it was hard sided .

it was really neat

[308Lover]

What's left to hunt? You shot a good stag and an awesome boar (how was the meat by the way?). Can you shoot more elsewhere in your hunting season?

[gamehunter6o]

What's left to hunt? You shot a good stag and an awesome boar (how was the meat by the way?). Can you shoot more elsewhere in your hunting season?

NZ has 7 species of deer,Red, Fallow, Wapiti (Elk), Whitetail, Sika and just starting to rut, Samba and Rusa. All these are free range and with no season. Then there are Tahr, Chamoir, Pig, Wallaby, Possum and Rabbit.
So much game, so little time.:cry:

[spear]

trademe! classic, bought a car off there when I was in NZ.
Nice looking rig, Kiwi's always have the best rigs!

[gamehunter6o]

Bighorn Hunter wanted to see interior photos, well here you are.:-D
http://i450.photobucket.com/albums/qq225/mossoprd/Caravan010.jpg
From the front
http://i450.photobucket.com/albums/qq225/mossoprd/Caravan012.jpg
From the rear with front window wide open.

[Duckman]

Very cool, looks like a great base camp. For the rutted roads you mention, have you thought about up-sizing the tires?