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techntrek
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Topic: Creating bunk beds in a 171 Posted: 23 Mar 2013 at 10:13pm |
As our kids have grown they've begun to complain about their room on the dinette at night. It was time to give each of them their own bed. I decided to add a bunk above the dinette. I wanted to be sure I could still get to the storage under the seats, and maybe even remove it to use the table. In the end I can get to the storage by lifting up on the front edge. However, it ended up being a little too big to just remove as I hoped. The tolerances are so tight I had to put one of the legs on with a ratchet through the front window, so no easy-out. The towel is there to protect the wall and the front ledge. It just sits on the ledge and the legs slip between the wall and cushions. I made the bunk smaller than the dinette to leave a place to step up and a place to sit. 


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Thinker
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Posted: 24 Mar 2013 at 7:03am |
Hey that is pretty cool... You guys are natural engineers. Had I not seen yours, I would have tried a type of pipe berth, sitting on the ledge on one side like you did, but suspened by a chain on the front corners. This would then fold up out of the way during the day. I don't know enough about the pod structure to know for sure how to find solid attachment points. Yours is solid. You are a lot like me and if a 2x2 will carry the load.. put in a 2x4... ha.
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Tow Vehicle: 2013 Pathfinder 4WD R-POD Model 171
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Goose
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Posted: 24 Mar 2013 at 10:52am |
That's really neet! I see it now.......the fighting begins for ownership of the top bunk. I know because my brother and I had trundle beds when we were young. Goose
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techntrek
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Posted: 24 Mar 2013 at 1:22pm |
Amazingly, no fighting from the kids - one wants the top, the other wants the bottom. I did expect to mediate a full schedule of who gets what on which day. Happily no.
The front rail is actually a 2 x 3, I was surprised to find that. I expected to have to rip a 2 x 4 to make it a little less high to climb over.
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Goose
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Posted: 24 Mar 2013 at 2:34pm |
What are you going to use as a mattress on the top bunk?
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Mother Goose's Caboose..2011 RP171..07 Grand Cherokee
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Keith-N-Dar
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Posted: 24 Mar 2013 at 3:05pm |
How about a waterbed?
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Keith-N-Dar
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techntrek
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Posted: 24 Mar 2013 at 8:31pm |
I have several backpacking mattresses so probably one of them. I'm sure they would love a waterbed!
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wildflowerz
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Posted: 24 Mar 2013 at 8:47pm |
Looks great!
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furpod
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Posted: 24 Mar 2013 at 8:53pm |
Looks great.. and, I love my Merrells..  (another forum I am on, people take a lot of pictures of objects laying on the ground that end up with their feet in them, so I notice these things... lol)
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techntrek
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Posted: 24 Mar 2013 at 9:54pm |
Probably the 12th pair I've owned, its all I've worn for about a decade.
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