How we live in our tiny caravan and what happened
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- เผยแพร่เมื่อ 5 ต.ค. 2023
- G'day Van fam.
This week we have been stopped in our tracks by some major car issues. So instead of an adventure, we fill you in on what happened and share how we live in our tiny caravan, the gadgets we love and answer some of the reoccurring questions we receive.
Hope you enjoy this weeks ep and thanks for watching!
Thank you both for sharing the ups and downs of life on the road and living in a tiny home. We have put a sail rail (we had a privacy screen) on our HTO Fury Road when we were in Darwin. It has made a huge difference to the fridge and keeping the van cooler. Looking forward to you Ningaloo Videos. Stay cool :)
thanks Annette, its only been WA that we have noticed the heat issues. there's heaps of sun here and no trees haha. Thanks for watching and commenting.
Your videos are well presented, to the point, and well voiced. Love your vids, and look forward to fitting our new (2nd hand) caravan and getting "out there".
Hey guys, I really missed your adventure this week, but I must congratulate you for sharing what life is like living in a caravan full-time. I found this vlog super interesting and informative. It’s great to see how organised and efficient the ‘Svedo’s Trippin’ operation is. 😊 Full credit to you for creating such a successful and happy lifestyle that really works! I hope the car and fridge are back in your lineup as soon as possible, as I now understand how important these items are for your day-to-day living needs. Love your positivity and resilience! 👏😄👍 See you guys next week! Kind regards, Corrie.
Thanks Corrie. More bad news next week but we managed to fit in some adventuring too. Also I just heard today the fridge is fixed, now just to pick it up (200km away...).
Hey Brett, good news re the fridge! Shame about the round trip distance though 😔 I hope the bad news is not too serious🤞looking forward to the latest adventure 👍🤠
Doesn't matter wether your touring or not your content is always awesome.
orrr shucks, thanks so much.
Wow! You two have really shone some light on my endeavours in researching the best caravan/system for my future foray!
your welcome, glad we could help.
Hey guys, so glad to see you are all ok and getting on with life as if nothing happened. You are all AMAZING! So resilient and humble. You are happy with what you have, it's so refreshing.
Kayley & Owen are so well behaved, you wouldn't even know they were there during the video 😂
Great tips about RACQ and living in the van full time , thanks. Hope the car is fixed on time, shame about the $ 😮
Take care guys, see you next week ❤
Thanks Lyn, yeah we have good kids, we are very lucky in that. Things will get better I'm sure.
Have you thought about doing away with the tripod base of the clothes line and just put a piece of pipe on the draw bar that it slips into. No more clothes on the ground and also no more pegging it down. Easy to install.
Hubby put an extra sail track on our van.....very easy to do. Bought from Bunnings around $20 , silicone to keep the water out from getting behind it and a few rivets.....works a treat.
Thanks, lots of people telling us it's DIY able, when we get some where civilised we will have a go.
Best type of vid IMO. Showing how to work a mobile life style.
thanks mate
Great video, love all the hooks and lights 👌
so many hooks Mel, so many hooks.
Hats off to you. You are amazing
Thanks 😊 🫂
Thanks guys, the 'stationary' VLOG was great :) I have hooks in the van but I now suspect that I need more!
I have put sail track on the driver's side and can use a shade cloth with a 6mm keder. If the driver's side has to face East, then it's a good place to sit 'n' relax when West is too hot and glaring.
I live on the road F/T in a 14' Vision Hybrid with outdoor cooking and have an induction cooker inside if it's howling. Composting toilet and shower. I also work on the road and Elon is my best friend.
I have 800W of solar and 2 x 300Ah Lithiums with a 50A MPPT controller and 40A while driving (Enerdrive). I have 3 x 80 litre water tanks, one of which is always just town water - the front tank (80 litre grey tank as well). The end tank is for creek/river water (showers/washing) the middle tank is for bore water after sucking through a B.E.S.T water filter.
When I fly the kids into a location and then go remote, my language is always around 'the power and water are there, just use them wisely". 'Conserving' is one matter but 'enjoying' remote camping is another matter.
There're always questions around too much solar or too much battery. I prefer too much solar but you need enough battery to 'enjoy' the remote lands.
Another tip is to purchase a quality stainless steel bucket, machined/spun from one piece (no leaks with soldering/brazing). I have an outdoor sink but the HWS is a bit 'slow' so I spray the water into that bucket and set it by the camp fire at night or in the morning. I don't usually plug products but you can get a Boss Camp hand-held shower kit (USB re-charge) and have a quick tub without 'wasting' water. There are marine-grade brands available from Road Tech Marine (about twice the price) but they run off 12V. In addition to the Boss, I have RTM pumps for water and diesel (used in jerries). I also have a 12V pump for creek water.
That's enuff, from me.
Thanks mate, detailed comment for sure. Your solar and battery system is where I would like to be, in a year or 2 we hope we can move into our second van and that's about what we would aim for.
Completely agree re. Being comfortable while remote and we really are. The west coast is interesting for water, there isn't alot of fresh and when there is we have to pay for it which is why we are being so stingy with our water use.
But we are certainly 100 times more comfortable in our van compared to tenting it like we did in our youth.
Thanks for watching and commenting.
I watched this ages ago and thought it was a great idea 😊
Thank you guys a great help thank you
your welcome, thanks for watching and commenting.
You guys rock …Such positive attitude 🎉
thank you :)
Hooks for days! Glad to hear you love the ziggy, must not have been all that bad a recommendation😊
Great candid ep from you both, authenticity the two of you, well done.
thanks mate
Oh gosh, so now starlink is fixed. Wahoo. Good real life vid with handy hints....and an array of hooks. 🤣
And more hooks
sounds like lots of fun... One day....
So happy you guys are still living full time on the road, loving it and making it work. I’ve seen that pillow clothes storage idea before… glad you’ve implemented it. My baby q is a fav. Cast iron cookware for fire pit use. A small pop up tent (fly attached) is great for saving your spot when you go out if you have a motorhome/campervan, guest sleeping area, pet or child sandpit/playpen screened, shady enclosure, and extra storage too for those outside items etc. Hooks are great too! I love my recycled black plastic tubs for carrying water, dishes, storage etc. I still go camping in my pop up tent with robust stretchers in a car. Jenga skills are a must!
My cpap battery is charged by an extra car battery in a box (solar blanket can charge or swap over in car to recharge if travelling) on a sine converter for extra safety. My phone and watch charge at the same time every day. Lasts weeks. Great tips guys… I can’t wait to get on the road in a campervan full time…. Can’t tow!
Great tips, thanks for watching and hope to see you on the road soon.
Those Aldi bags rock! I have numerous of them too. I use Velcro wraps on my hoses and chuck them straight in to those Aldi bags.
Solid idea, thanks for the tip and for watching.
Just discovered your channel guys (new subscriber), thank you for the excellent content and practical down the earth solutions to life in a compact space.I hope your travels are trouble free from now on.🙂
Thanks for subbing, things do seem to be better now (though I don't want to jinx it haha).
Good advice with the RACQ ultimate!
wouldn't be with out it.
Fantastic
thanks
Great work guys chin up on all the mishaps and hats off to you all living on the road. That broken fridge is it worth travelling all that way cost wise to pickup a broken fridge why not replace it. Keep up the great work cheers.
its not easy to replace and its getting fixed under warranty. If there were more services out this way it wouldn't be a big drama. thanks for the kind words and for watching.
Gr8 ep guys 🤙
thank you :)
Great idea of the Fusion hooks outside, would have never of thoght, got them inside and they are great.
Yeah, they hold up pretty well outside.
Mel we have a clothes line that hooks on side of van keep eye out at aldi thats where I got mine its great take it down to tra El then back up she goes for beach towels bath towel etc take care things must improve
Hi dianne, that line sounds amazing, I will have to keep an eye out thanks
Great video. Just bought luci lights.
Awesome, they are the best.
Cool vid guys 😊 we might see Yas out there
Hopefully.
How lucky are you that this didn't happen on the Gibb!! Feeling your pain/s (financial, timewise, fridgewise, heatwise and space constrictions). Hang in there guys!! PS Even tho' it's school holidays, tell the kids to to use the down time to get ahead in their work. They can then have the time off to explore more when you're mobile again.
Oh yeah we used the time to get the kids ahead. Yeah, imagine if it was on the Gibb, that would of been awful. Thanks for watching and commenting 😀
Hi Guys
I will try and explain how we hang our clothes in 1 minute setup. You will love this design 😵💫🙈👍😎
I what you to get a paper and pen .
One. draw 2 lines in parallel.
Two .the 2 arms on your awning that come straight out.
Three. If you get a plastic pipe about 1.5 feet long x 2 ..about 2 inches wide or so .
Four. You have to put 2 holes x 2 about 20 mill from each end and then the rope full length of the awning.x 2 and add 1 foot extra.
Five.when you have it all connected just make sure you leave about 1 foot longer then the awning.
Six. Now you have it all connected together you put one end over the arm of the awning and then put the line under the plastic pipe and it will lock itself in when you pull the line,and then go to the other end and wrap it around the pipe again over and then the line goes over the pipe to lock it up.😵💫🙈
You then have 2 clotheslines and you can use it and it doesn’t matter if it rains .
Good luck I hope 🤞 you understand what I mean. If not just let me know and I will get my wife to write it out a lot better.
Cheers 🍹🍹😊
Yes, I can visualise it, good job explaining. Will have to put it on my DIY list. Thank you.
Gday guys we have a fury Rd the range hood light makes a great low light compared with the LEDs do your roof lights not dim to blue if tapped on the fitting
Na the lights don't dim, i just got up and checked hahaha as you had me curious. The range hood light is OK but the luci lights have a nice feel to them.
We have just watched this very informative video (recently new followers and we are loving your tips and trick as well as your travel vids)!
One question: where do you get your laundry bags for underwear? I like where the zip is located on the bag.
the laundry bag come from Daiso, they are a little Japanese $2 shop. You will only find them in major towns but. thanks for watching our vids.
Some good stuff guys 👍 we actually attached a sail track with silicone instead of screwing into composite van. Love it and it’s been on for six months and still in place. 👍
solid idea. thanks for the tip.
May be you can do a video on the use of your drone
Hey guys, just wondering how do you manage travelling when Mel is working? I'd assume you stay put for those days and catch up on drive on other days? Do you think working full time would work? BTW, great content, keep up the good work :)
Hey mate, it works like this. Mel works 3 days mon-wed (though it is flexible). During those 3 days I try to get the school work done.
We then have 4 day weekends to explore where we are. We generally lose 1 of those days to travel and chores (shopping water erc.).
We generally stay somewhere a week and that's about the lifestyle.
Thanks for watching and commenting 😀.
Would you kindly let me know what the drone is that you are using please. Enjoyed you video of the area close to perth.
Hi mate, my drone is a dji mavic air 2s (it's now superseded by the air 3). I appreciate your complements on my drone flying, it's been many years of practice.
I'm not sure I would make a video on flying a drone, TH-cam would have thousands of tutorials on how to use drones and it's not realy in the niche of our channel, though again I appreciate the compliment.
I love my luci lights and they save so much waste of lighting.
They are brilliant.
How can u find hose bags to hard. U must not be using them correctly
You keep saying small. If you had a larger van, what would that have done to you weight problems? I don't understand how some of the really big rigs get towed legally.
I would have thought your internal roof might be a good spot for some simple storage (eg: your laptops) in a thing like that black slide in pocket near your door.
@saddle1940 small van or large van doesn't really matter when it comes to your ATM, it's about your payload. If I had my time again, I would be looking for as much payload as possible, I wouldn't take anything less than 750kg of payload in the future.
As for the cars capability, with the numbers on our car, our van at 2750kg is about as big a van as we can manage, even though the manufacturer says it can tow a 3500kg van. When you factor in the payload in our car 2750 is about as big a van that we can manage and still be legal on our GVM and GCM.
Sorry, weights are a complicated subject, and I might not have explained super well but watch this space as I will be talking more about caravan weights in the future.