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Red Path Rambler
Australia
Приєднався 1 січ 2019
G'day folks, welcome to my channel.
Feel free to subscribe to follow along as I tackle projects ( usually a random or spontaneous idea that pops into my head! and quite often requiring me having a go at certain things I have no experience with ), the occasional kayak/camping trip where I continue to catch less fish than I'd like. And well, if something different pops into my head, I'll possibly film that as well. Mostly it's about keeping the mind occupied with things I love to do, being outdoors for one, a bit of inspiration, an adventure here and there, and just plain old enjoying life in and around this crazy old world we live in.
Stay well and thanks for watching.
Cheers,
Mark.
Feel free to subscribe to follow along as I tackle projects ( usually a random or spontaneous idea that pops into my head! and quite often requiring me having a go at certain things I have no experience with ), the occasional kayak/camping trip where I continue to catch less fish than I'd like. And well, if something different pops into my head, I'll possibly film that as well. Mostly it's about keeping the mind occupied with things I love to do, being outdoors for one, a bit of inspiration, an adventure here and there, and just plain old enjoying life in and around this crazy old world we live in.
Stay well and thanks for watching.
Cheers,
Mark.
Work Car Ute & Canopy Makeover - Should Have Done This Years Ago!
G'day folks,
I finally got around to doing something I've thought about often, converting my work car from a tub ute to a tray ute. In the process I've gained a lot more space and more importantly, easier access for these old bones of mine. I'm very happy with the result.
Stay well folks,
Mark.
I finally got around to doing something I've thought about often, converting my work car from a tub ute to a tray ute. In the process I've gained a lot more space and more importantly, easier access for these old bones of mine. I'm very happy with the result.
Stay well folks,
Mark.
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Goodbye And Happy Trails Gypsy Wagon
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G'day folks. Well as the title and thumbnail suggests, I've sold the Gypsy Wagon. A desire to re-focus 2024 and beyond on my ultimate goal of acquiring my own parcel of land, involved re-couping my costs of the wagon build and re-establishing work and income after a long time away from it. Sad to see it go, but at the same time happy to be moving forward on the goal. As always folks, stay well ...
From Go To Whoa! Time Lapse Gypsy Wagon Build - From Go To Whoa There Horsey!
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How it started to how it ended. A time lapse of my Australian, traditionally inspired, Gypsy Wagon build. With a basic, overall, wide vision in my head, I just got to work making it up as I went along, using secondhand and new materials/products and challenging my imagination to bring it all together. Imagination and determination is the key folks. Using those two traits, you can do anything yo...
Gypsy Wagon 16 - The Finale...Finally!!!
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G'day folks! Well after a long, long time between videos, with all manner of roadblocks thrown up in front of me, from financial to muscle injury, nerve impingement (and the subsequent and ongoing treatment recovery), and totally inconsistent weather, I can finally upload the final Gypsy Wagon video! I hope you enjoy it. I hope you've enjoyed the whole series as much as I've enjoyed creating it...
Watersnake Trolling Motor With PWM On My Kayak
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G'day folks. I felt the need for speed...and because I can sometimes be a lazy bugger...I invested in a Watersnake trolling motor for my kayak, along with a Pulse Width Modulator and 50Amp Lithium battery. However, being that my kayak doesn't have a provision for mounting a motor at the rear, which was my preferred placement for it, I had to get a bit creative in making it all work. But I do ha...
Gypsy Wagon 15 - Is This The Penultimate? Maybe...
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G'day folks! It's been a long time between videos...sorry about that. Plenty of hold ups, some lengthy decision making processes and just general rigours of life dictating their terms. I have ticked off a lot of jobs on the wagon though and well, I think I'm close, very close to the end. Thanks for sticking around and as always, stay well. Cheers, Mark.
Gypsy Wagon 14 - The Journey Continues
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Hello folks, a bit of a late start to 2023 but I'm back on the wagon! ..the Gypsy Wagon that is. Major jobs, little jobs, it all adds up to inching closer to the end. Hello to new subscribers, hope you enjoy the ride. Patches of time may pass between uploads, but stick with me, we'll get to the end eventually. Stay well all, Mark.
Gypsy Wagon - 2023 - Happy New Year
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G'day folks, just dropping into say hello and happy new year to you all. I'm just starting to get back into the groove of things after the holiday period. Hopefully I'll have the next instalment uploaded soon-ish. And I hope you are all well and living your best lives. Stay well, Mark.
Gypsy Wagon 13 - Fixtures And Features
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G'day Folks. Closing out the year with this episode. I concentrate once again on the outside, adding various fixtures and features, again using one-off items in a repurposed manner and seeing if they work. So far I'm happy with the results. Stay well, take care, and I hope everyone has a relaxing, peaceful and enjoyable Xmas holiday period. See you in the new year! Cheers, Mark.
Gypsy Wagon 12 - Ballad Of The Balustrade - A Musical.
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I make no apologies for this music-fest of a video. I can promise you though that I don't sing in it :) In this episode I finally get to use some materials I've had stored and waiting for quite some time. Some new product and of course some second hand stuff re-purposed. Thanks to all the wonderfully wide and varied musicians at, www.epidemicsound.com Stay well folks! Mark.
Gypsy Wagon 11 - Attack Of The Paint Brush
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G'day folks, some visual changes take place. The Gypsy Wagon starts to take on more detail as I tackle the thousand and one little jobs, starting with the two main windows, which I'm loving. And a front door that I love even more. Thanks for watching and as always, stay well! Mark.
"Look At Him, He's Heading For That Tiny Home"... "That's No Tiny Home"...
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Just mucking around discovering new editing skills. I promise I won't put this in the next Gypsy Wagon video. Stay well folks, Mark.
Building A Gypsy Wagon - Part 10 - The Guts'n'Bolts
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There is an end in sight but not yet, not yet. We're getting into what seems to be a thousand and one jobs now, little and big. The detail is only going to increase from this point forward. I finally solve and finish my hidden rain gutters, refashion a vanity/kitchen cabinet and sink, and settle on (I hope) my wood heating choice. Stay well folks! Mark.
Gypsy Wagon 10 Promo
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Release of Part 10 of the Gypsy Wagon build is imminent. Featuring the music of my nephew Sean Byrne maltiox_
Building A Gypsy Wagon - Part 9 - A Little Bit Of Fancy
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Building A Gypsy Wagon - Part 9 - A Little Bit Of Fancy
Building A Gypsy Wagon - Part 8 - The Weather Dictates The Journey
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Building A Gypsy Wagon - Part 8 - The Weather Dictates The Journey
Building a Gypsy Wagon - Part 6 - Look Ma, I Made a Pattern! And My Mollicroft is Complete
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Building a Gypsy Wagon - Part 6 - Look Ma, I Made a Pattern! And My Mollicroft is Complete
Building a Gypsy Wagon - Part 5 - The Bones
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Building a Gypsy Wagon - Part 5 - The Bones
Building a Gypsy Wagon Part 1 Introduction
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Building a Gypsy Wagon Part 1 Introduction
The Pallet Bar - For The Indoor/Outdoor BBQ Kitchen
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The Pallet Bar - For The Indoor/Outdoor BBQ Kitchen
Intex Excursion Pro K1 - First Paddlin'
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Intex Excursion Pro K1 - First Paddlin'
Dutch Oven Pork Roast and Solo Stove First Use
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Dutch Oven Pork Roast and Solo Stove First Use
Kayak, Camp, Bush-craft, Fish. Rinse and Repeat.
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Kayak, Camp, Bush-craft, Fish. Rinse and Repeat.
Oh my. I am a bit heartbroken that you sold your lovely wagon! Oh well, change is constant. Sending you light and good wishes for the future.
It was sad to see it go. But as you say, change is constant. All the best to you as well. 🙂
Mad skills, sir. Very beautiful.
Thanks for watching. 🙂
Love it. I think I just did mine too, with the picture in my head.
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It’s a glorious Sunday morning here, coffee at my side, just finished this beautiful video. Found myself feeling emotional at times watching a piece of art about a man building a piece of art with masterful skills. I didn’t know I needed this. A deep felt and sincere thank you for sharing your heart with us all. Be well friend.
Thanks for watching Peter, glad you enjoyed it. Really appreciate your comment. Sunday morning coffee...probably the best time to watch it. 🙂
You missed one thing, the two horses needed to support the weight. Amazing work , for me the question of horses power is first. Gypsy wagons are such more light.
Thanks for watching. 🙂 Didn't have the horses on hand unfortunately. The under carriage and platform I started with is an original Melbourne Brick Cart, very heavy duty. So when loaded, it would have been pulled by a team of horses, probably 4 or more. Hence, I only built a traditionally inspired Gypsy Wagon, not a real one.
Simply beautiful!😊
WOW what an absolutely magnificent creation , i enjoyed watching every minute if it being built . Well done that man , you are a legend !!
@@mindseyeimaging Thanks Chris, glad you enjoyed it. 🙂
@@RedPathRambler thats one hell of an achievement and talent
❤As a child, i had a recurrent dream that i lived in a "roulotte" like this one. It is a blessing to be gifted with such talented craftmanship. It would take me a year just to measure and cut. In another life that is 😅. I slowed down the video to better appreciate the details of this beautiful work. Thank you so much for sharing 🙏🤗💜💫
Thanks for watching. 🙂 A lot more of that detail in the series episodes, should you feel inclined of course. 🙂
as i sit here in my 33 foot motor home lol i love it looks awesome
@@nocturnalpete1 Yeah, I coulda done with a few more feet!
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A lost Art.
Wow 🎉
You are a true artist.
@beckyisabell4324 Thank you Becky. 🙂
🎉❤️ beautiful
Nice video! I just bought a nice padded boat seat for my Lifetime Yukon, with absolutely no idea how im doing to mount it. Your video gives me confidence that i can figure it out. 😁
Thanks for watching. 🙂 Good luck with it! Did the Yukon come with a framed seat that slots into moulded areas ? If so, maybe you can incorporate the boat seat into the frame of the original seat.
@RedPathRambler thank you. Yeah, it does have the molded slots, as you mentioned. I'm definitely going to use the transom plate like you used on your seat.
@@markgreen9225 I'm still using mine after all this time, can't go back after having padding. I did however remake my frame with aluminium tubing to make it lighter, worked a treat.
I always said that if the world got any crazier, I was going to build a horse drawn wagon and just vanish into the great wilderness that is our nation, and I may still drop everything and do it... Let the idiots try and find me!
That's my plan. Except I'll be taking the kayak up river to my hidey hole camp site. 🙂
I'm so sorry you have to part with your amazing work of art. I pray that God would bless your life and open a door for you to do the things you love to do creatively you have incredible talent.
@faithlinkministries Thank you Jennifer. I'm manifesting, pushing out positive vibes every day for just that. 🙂
Outstanding! It's a beautiful thing. Thank you. I think I'm in love with you. 😍
@susanhamilton1822 Thanks for watching Susan, glad you enjoyed it. 🙂
Guys a genius what a talent and no plans just from the top of his head
Well shucks, my IQ ain't that high. But thanks for watching. 🙂
My grandfather was a cartwright/wheelwright. In assembling the chassis, it's important to have the axels the right way 'round because each side is threaded differently. That ensures that the forward movement of the caravan will keep the wheel nuts tight. Otherwise, the nuts loosen, and off come the wheels. (There were even automobile manufacturers who perpetuated this practice for fastening tire rims to axels.)
I admire the old trades, or at least the surviving old trades. I think my wheels were a bit different in that they slid on the axle and then a heavy duty pin dropped into a space preventing them from working their way off. So, no actual wheel nuts on them.
Wow! Just Wow! This little wagon is so charming.
@@shenandoah1322 Thanks for watching. 🙂
I love it
I daydream of converting a gambrel roof shed into a gypsy she shed. A place to read, nap or knit. This is so lovely.
@cindyyeager8627 Thanks for watching Cindy. 🙂 The new owners will be setting it up as an air'b&b, so the perfect place to read, nap or knit. 🙂
You did such a great work!! So many lovely details and accurat functions! I wish, i could live in this wonderful Gipsy wagon!!
@TheNot4ever Thanks for watching, glad you enjoyed it. 🙂
I enjoyed watching you take something from nothing and make it beautiful, thank you
@JoiceScherer Thanks for watching, glad you got some enjoyment out of it. 🙂
A real peace of art.i am impressed
Thanks for watching. 🙂
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What an awesome tranformation. ❤❤❤
Thanks for watching. 🙂
🐎🐎You"ll need horses to pull such a wagon... ua-cam.com/video/9KMqHPhfJHQ/v-deo.html 🍁
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I have re-invented furniture for other purposes, and created bespoke pieces from ancient floor boards etc; your work sir is exceptional. Wonderful creativity with old quality hand built features, very very clever.
Thank you Andrew. It's just fun to repurpose things once the ideas start flowing. 🙂
It's a good looking van, from a distance, but there's some mighty strange choices in this build, materials, techniques, design. Yeah, making it up is about right. And a lack of many traditional skills normally used in a real gypsy caravan. And it's also the style of van mostly used by showmen not gypsies. I thought we were going to see a horse pulling it was well. I'm not surprised you moved it with a VW bus, that thing must weight a ton! Several tons!
Thanks for watching Colin. Good thing I never claimed to be building a real gypsy caravan. I had a guy in the know come out to identify exactly what kind of cart I had. An original Melbourne brick cart apparently. A 2 ton carriage with a capacity to carry 4 ton. A single horse never pulled this cart. So I was fakin' it from the get go. 🙂..as explained in one of the episodes of the build series. Although I didn't get a chance to weigh the finished product, I estimate I added somewhere between half a ton to a ton of weight. The Volksy pulled it easily...I didn't have a team of horses available unfortunately.
@@RedPathRambler You took that well! Unfortunately I am a bit of a pendant when it comes to the gypsy caravan, it's history and the crafts and materials used to build one, as well as the travelling life of the gypsies of the era which dictated their design. Your method of building certainly produces an attractive result which will be a pleasant place to spend time relaxing. And I shouldn't criticise a man who makes a thing. I would just like to urge people to look at how these things were made in their heyday.
@colinmcmb Well, I took one look (more than one, a few), at the traditional and thought nope, that's beyond my skill set. Of course that didn't quell my creative streak in embarking on the build. I basically built a modern caravan, hidden under a homage to an old way of life. 🙂
please tell us how much it sold for...
I'm sorry, I'd prefer not to say. However, I can say I believe I recovered my costs (even though I'm yet to tally said costs), and only a small portion of the labour value. But I knew I would never recover that labour value considering it was a labour of love building it. 🙂
@@RedPathRambler Got it bud...really nice job i must say...
@@kaywalker4433 Thanks Kay, 'twas a fun (and slightly obsessive) project.
a thing of beauty...
I'm semi-obsessed with the idea of building something like this on the back of a HD utility truck. Anybody looking to develop a similarly disrupted thought process, check the book 'Tiny Houses That Go'. One look and you're a goner, so be careful.
Same here. I've always had that in mind. When I came across the old former brewery cart though, well that totally took over my mind and imagination. Still would like to something with a flat bed truck though.
Love your Gypsy Wagon..... We have a 1950 Chevy 2 ton flat bed truck that we wanted to make into a G Wagon. Her name is Big Bertha and we must now pass her on to someone else. LOL Konnie and Stephen in Colorado
Thank you Konnie and Stephen. Glad you enjoyed it. 🙂 You know, before the undercarriage, wheels and tray came across my desk via facebook marketplace, I'd always envisioned building something like a G Wagon on the back of a flat bed, based on something similar I saw back in 2006 while driving around the US with my brother. I still haven't ruled out doing it some day.
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G'day from Australia! 🙂
@@RedPathRambler Supperr video. I 1966 old
This was well worth watching! You have built a beautiful Gypsy Wagon. The interior as well as the exterior are marvelous. It speaks volumes about your artistic thinking. Once I started I could not wait to see the final product. I look forward to more from you.
Thank you Steve, glad you enjoyed it. 🙂
Worth ever 53 minutes and 25 seconds I sat here watching this incredible artist at work!
@bettygentry9672 Thank you Betty. Glad you enjoyed it. 🙂
As a child i read books like the box car children. I always wanted to run away and live in a box car at the edge of the woods. Then pne simmer my aunts came to visit and told stories about the gypsies that pulled their wagons with horses up to their farm and lived there for the summer. My father was 4 - 8 and during those summers he spent most. Off the day ,as soonn as his chores were done. I envied his childhood. Tthe gypsies repaired tools for houses and farms. And gleened the fields. They taught him many things. And my uncles started doing carpentry with them. I LOVE THIS BUILD...
@marjoriejohnson6535 Yes it's a shame that some elements and methods of lifestyle of times long past don't exist anymore. I guess technically they still do, but so modernised that the 'romanticism ' of those ways is lost. Of course that's not to say life was generally easier in those times, it just wasn't as scrutinised or regulated so much. Try pulling a modern car and caravan up beside a farm now and staying for a few months! There'd be cops, fines etc.!
@@RedPathRambler I would l I ve it if a Gardner pulled in with campers and did my garden...he looked i definitely would feed for the summer...
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Awesome,… just ,.. Awesome..!!! 🤩👍🏼😍
Incredible craftmanship. Absolute beauty!
@cannonsanders Thanks for watching, glad you enjoyed it. 🙂
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Just wonderful. Such a lot of work. You are so clever. Hope you have many years of enjoyment from your beautiful work of art.
Thanks for watching. 🙂
Nicely done!
@eschnitger Thanks Eugene. 🙂
Strange,,,,no insulation in the floor or ceiling??? Why not??💤💤🤕🤒💯
It's got Foil board insulation in the floor and ceilings. Not sure how evident that was in this video, but it's prominent in the series videos on my channel. I didn't have much depth with either to play with. I think I used 15mm, possibly 20mm.