September 3, 2024
Tuesday Open Comments
Some days you want a pizza. Some days you want a pizza bus.
If you’re experiencing a hankering for the latter, here comes the online community with an easy remedy.
According to the internet, the site Instructables.com is a place where humble craftsmen and -women can teach each other how to make things. Let’s say, for instance, you are a little chilly. Someone on the site will teach you how to make a scarf. Or maybe you’re feeling moved to play the guitar, but you can’t find yours. Conveniently, you can consult Instructables to learn how to make one from scratch.
For today’s lesson, we have the step-by-step instructions for making a pizza bus, beginning with Step 1, which we could summarize as “Buy a used school bus,” and from there, you’re off to the races, as it were.
Keep in mind that I'm not quite finished with this bus yet. I'll be working on it over winter to finish the trimming and come spring 2025, I'll be ready for a final epoxy on the countertops and floors. For the first step, you research and buy a bus that suits you. I removed the seats and that was the worst part about renovating this bus. I'm going to post a lot of pictures on here but I'm not going to get too specific on how everything works but I will tell you some methods and types of wood I used on this cool build. There are things I could've done better, but I've been working on this bus during summer time the past 4 years. My ideas have evolved over the years, to what you see unfold upon the steps shown. I hope I can give you just enough insight to make you wonder how it all works.
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The rest is here, including pictures of some very attractive fine woodworking and firebrick masonry.
Good morning. That sounds like a fire hazard. When I was at forestry training, our dinner one evening was prepared by some guys with a pizza oven on a trailer.
As a kid every summer we took a 2 week vacation somewhere. We had a popup trailer with canvas sides. The first one was a tent all the way up, the second one had a metal roof. It had a tiny kitchen (a sink, and a one burner stove. The two tables converted to beds, so it technically could sleep 8. We had seven (my oldest sister got her own bed). Rain was never a good day because there was literally no room to walk about. We had a 10' x10' screen room we placed next to the door, with a picnic table inside the screen room.
Breakfast was from the hostess bakery day old store, an 8 pack of rolls with filling, on an aluminum plate.
But at night we played euchre, and it was fun to watch. Dad almost never lost, and this quiet, stoic man became a showman, entertaining us.
We took trips to Wyoming, the Dakotas, Gatlinburg, (though not all the same year), just wherever Dad felt like going. 6-8 hours of driving in a station wagon without a/c, then stop and put up the pop up. It had to have a pool, or at least a pond.
Whenever I see a pop-up trailer today I think to myself "a 5th wheel could be nice"...