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01-08-2017, 03:45 PM
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Montana Master
Join Date: Jun 2010
Location: Colorado Springs
Posts: 3,335
M.O.C. #10496
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Tiny House Montana Conversion
I didn't do this conversion but thought others on the forum might enjoy the pictures.
http://denver.craigslist.org/rvs/5910274370.html
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01-08-2017, 03:55 PM
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Montana Master
Join Date: Apr 2009
Location: Murrieta
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Nice, but just like the show about Tiny Homes, I think they should just buy a trailer, since they that's what many of them are...Tiny Homes. Some of those homes I see weigh too much and don't have enough room. Trailers with slideouts have been around a lot longer with greater success and not so much high dollar customization.
That is a good looking rig, and it's still a trailer.
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01-09-2017, 12:28 AM
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Montana Master
Join Date: May 2011
Location: Hixson
Posts: 3,436
M.O.C. #11397
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I would take this over the ones seen on TV shows anytime. But it actually is not a "build" but a "remodel". Looks nice to me.
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01-09-2017, 11:53 PM
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Montana Master
Join Date: Mar 2013
Location: Hanover
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Looks like they used a lot of paint, both inside and out. I like the idea of the marine paint on the outside though. Our decals aren't ready to be removed just yet, but might be in a couple of years - Might just go with white marine paint if Keystone want's to charge money for new ones.
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01-10-2017, 12:42 AM
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Montana Master
Join Date: Feb 2003
Location: Englewood
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M.O.C. #164
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Just love the interior anc the color choices!
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01-10-2017, 03:24 PM
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Montana Master
Join Date: Mar 2014
Location: Kissimmee
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Love it!
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01-11-2017, 04:07 AM
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Montana Master
Join Date: Feb 2004
Location: Brandon
Posts: 3,944
M.O.C. #1034
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Nice, but looks a little heavier than the original build.
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04-15-2017, 07:40 PM
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New Member
Join Date: Apr 2017
Location: Roseville
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the link is now gone 
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04-16-2017, 09:27 AM
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Montana Master
Join Date: Feb 2006
Location: Denver
Posts: 1,043
M.O.C. #5329
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Quote:
Originally Posted by Art-n-Marge
Nice, but just like the show about Tiny Homes, I think they should just buy a trailer, since they that's what many of them are...Tiny Homes. Some of those homes I see weigh too much and don't have enough room. Trailers with slideouts have been around a lot longer with greater success and not so much high dollar customization.
That is a good looking rig, and it's still a trailer.
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I'm with you. I have never understood why folks will go through the gyrations to build a tiny house, when they could just go buy a 5th wheel and be done with it.
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04-16-2017, 12:38 PM
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Join Date: Apr 2017
Location: Petoskey
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M.O.C. #19690
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I would have loved to have seen the retrofit/remodel - and count me as another who doesn't get all the fuss over Tiny Houses - especially the ones on wheels?!
I mean, I get the ones that are larger (800 to 900 sq/ft), with fixed-foundations. Those are truly "Tiny Houses" and the features are more home-like - but to me - the show completely ignores RV's - which is obviously from where they are drawing a lot of their space-saving concepts in the first place. Many current RV's are even MUCH more affordable than having someone create you a custom "one-off" - and if you're going to a builder who specializes in building tiny mobile home construction on wheeled-trailer frames...you're likely going to get a "model" that particular "custom builder" to hold costs down...which is actually a semi-custom RV builder...and there's NO WAY that is more affordable than an RV!?
Plus - the interior and layout of our newly purchased (but lightly used - 2008) Montana is like living in a home! It's completely self-contained - and probably due to the slide outs - is NOT a the typical in-line construction used in their "Tiny Houses".
It also doesn't look like you're carrying a mobile chapel, or (worse) an outhouse, down the road behind you!
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04-16-2017, 06:32 PM
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Montana Fan
Join Date: Dec 2005
Location: Grain valley
Posts: 356
M.O.C. #5098
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Quote:
Originally Posted by Art-n-Marge
Nice, but just like the show about Tiny Homes, I think they should just buy a trailer, since they that's what many of them are...Tiny Homes. Some of those homes I see weigh too much and don't have enough room. Trailers with slideouts have been around a lot longer with greater success and not so much high dollar customization.
That is a good looking rig, and it's still a trailer.
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I agree. A fiver is much more practical if it is to be moved. Recently followed a "tiny house" down the interstate. It was being towed by a 3/4 ton truck and he was traveling at about 40 mph and it was swerving all over the road. He could barely hold it in his lane.
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04-17-2017, 07:44 AM
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Montana Master
Join Date: Jun 2010
Location: Colorado Springs
Posts: 3,335
M.O.C. #10496
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Quote:
Originally Posted by Michele
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Thank you for letting us know. It was a Craigslist ad.
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04-17-2017, 11:48 AM
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Montana Master
Join Date: Oct 2004
Location: Salem
Posts: 7,547
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Now let me think in a tiny house you get a tin tub a tiny refrigerator maybe a couch to set on and a bed room loft you use a latter to get up to that can't set up in and in a camper you get, no need to go into that. O well.
Lynwood
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