Quote: RobertR...show us some more pics...tell us about the boat too...you need to join Aluminumalloyboats....we have some good fun on that site. Just realized maybe you are just sending pics of what you have seen. Capt PJ
That is a photo from a for sale site.Boats are probably the most numerous RV's for Australians as the bulk of the population lives near the coast.
Road based RV's are catching up dramatically.
Quote: You must not have read the most recent info on Hackney's rig. His frame failed in SA and he shipped the truck home and is considering what to do. There has been a lot of discussion on Expedition Portal about the problems people have been having with Fuso frames. I don't have a pivot frame on mine. There have been at least a couple of Fuso frame failures on pivot frame trucks.
They seem to have no problem with the Canter, although they have adapted them as a Bushfire Light Tanker for some Bushfire Fire Brigades(Forestry type fires).
Mitsubishi flew a team of engineers out to Australia to observe the prototype light Tanker. They found they had to strengthen the frame in places as well as simplify the gearbox and electronic systems for a very hot fire environments.
They do use the 4 x4 Canter as a off road motorhome.
One of the major Aussie converters of Canter's to motorhomes and off-road buses has a proprietary mounting system that distributes the load over the full length of the frame while still allowing for frame flex. They don't use pivot frames. They have had great success with that system. Most of the US versions of Fuso/Canter campers are one-off experiments. Some have worked, some haven't. Carl Hunter's went around the world without problems. The problems are probably related to the loads carried on the trucks. I haven't had mine weighed yet, but it's probably in the 10,000lb range, well under the truck's rating.
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