hey there welcome to my channel where i take you on tours of tiny
and alternative homes i featured plenty of home tours on this channel that would be considered
cute but today's video isn't really like that instead we're going to meet paul who created a
custom box truck to live in and it is jam-packed full of his tools gear and a jacuzzi tub
it's meticulously organized and basically a man cave on wheels
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i publish a new video but right now let's take a tour of paul's box truck
i like a basic shape of a box because with a box
everything fits all the walls are flat the corners are square it's just easier
to carry out any dream that you have in hi my name is paul carman and this is box therapy
i purchased this vehicle in 2018 the chassis i thought i'm going to leave pennsylvania i may
never come back and somehow or another i have to survive i have to keep working i knew a lot
about how to fix stuff because my father taught me how to fix everything and how to build and
such that's what i ended up doing this box was built for the purpose of carrying tools
i cut out pieces of paper to scale i drew up okay this is my drill press this is my planer i started
laying them out on paper and all that stuff i listed and much more is in this rv i need hardware
and pipes of every size and fittings of every size i would not say that i enjoy anything about having
less stuff i am a stuffed maniac and i like big stuff monster table saws i like big brakes
to bend heavy steel in specific my goal was to carry everything in it that i need to build it
before i moved into the box i lived very near pittsburgh just south of it
the more people you pack per square mile the lonelier it gets i said to myself somewhere
there's a society where people talk to each other but people don't live in fear
find a place where i can walk up to somebody and say hi and they wouldn't turn the other way
they'd say hi back they'd understand that each and every person is unique
that's why i built this what was important about this was that i'm mobile that i can search this
continent from top to bottom i wanted to find that place where those people existed
started with a kenworth k370 6.7 liter px7 engine 250 horses
i chose this particular chassis because it is a tilt cab which gives me more space for box therapy
you can get access to everything right here we got the oil we got the brakes the air conditioning
everything right here boy if i hit a deer or a tumbleweed i am doomed wow that would be a lot
to repair this is a complete custom fabrication started with the chassis only so from bumper
to tip of bumper on 34 feet first thing i did with this was i put on these jacks so that i can
come way off the ground as you can see right now that way it made it easier for me to work on it
electrical area is right here where the dc comes in and gets distributed around the
vehicle these victron energies multi-units go from dc to ac and back to dc again
so they act as inverters and chargers i didn't want anything across the top of the frame rail
like any typical box you would buy and set on the truck instead i made little tees
and attached them to the frame went down and bolted up a four inch by six inch i-beam each
one of these posts that you see is where a beam is i started the box by going down from the frame
putting the i-beams across sitting on top of the i-beam is a c-channel that fits perfectly in here
and goes up to here and holds up the floor on the inside if you look this entire thing is held up
by one two three four five six i-beams i wanted to hide the wheels so it looked more like an rv than
a truck everything's held up with a magnet which is visible right here these bottom compartments go
all the way through underneath the frame the rear lights many as possible please don't rear-end me
coming around to the driver's side everything that takes gasoline is in here from the power
washer to the propane tanks to the spare fuel tanks and the fuel for the vehicle is all in here
so now it's time to go ahead and go in i have 62 organizer bins here and the overflow sits on
top because i certainly can't fit all my hardware right here this is the closet i prefer to hang my
clothes it's much easier the bed is four feet deep i had a queen bed and i hacked it cut it to fit in
place there's windows on each side inside the bed right here to open up so i can stick my head out
and see what's going on if i hear anything in the middle of night i have a popcorn machine up on top
i store everything in the drawers for fixing whatever the tape drawer batteries all kinds
of electrical outlets and such here controls the system when i'm plugged in
my generator can generate 50 amps so that's its current limit
but if i were to plug into say someone's porch i don't want to pop their breaker i might turn
it down and say okay don't draw more than nine and a half amps from that circuit toilet is electric
it has the controls this button will flush and put water at the same time it's made by dometic
i really like this toilet the main cabinetry is all tool boxes it works very well i like the way
it looks especially for what i do since most of everything is tools and materials and it locks so
that when i drive down the road my drawers don't open up the ceiling inside dimension
is eight foot one quarter inch but what i really like is i can stretch as far as possible
and not touch the ceiling that way when i get up in the morning i can loosen these old bones
this bathtub was one of my original requirements must have tub to keep my back loose
it's made by american standard and it has all the features the only one i truly use is the whirlpool
of the water itself and i take a bath every night in it and i reuse the same water and i do
two things to keep my water good i have a three filters coming out washable filters are nice i
i bury them in in the filter housing in clorox in bleach to clean the filters is cheaper than
replacing them i also use chlorine in the water just enough so there's a really light smell so
that i know it's present i also have pool strips here to test the water because i want to make sure
that i don't create a growing situation in my gray water tank the grey water issue is how i
operate i filter it again on the way out i have no fresh water tank i drink fresh water out of jugs
it's a walk-in tub it takes 55 gallon of water to fill up it is definitely representative of a
high quality of life in my opinion i don't wait for the tub to fill it takes a while
so i climb over the top just like this just about everything i have in here
is absolutely climbable without problem and i get in and out of the tub by climbing over the edge
and this side is the kitchen again the use of tool boxes
and a really big sink that i bought i figured i could do laundry in it and maybe when i get
the drain done i could but between now and then a five gallon bucket works very well
and this is the computer monitor it's set to the computer which is set over by the bathroom
a spice rack holder be careful when you bolt stuff to your refrigerator there are freon lines inside
i learned that the hard way of course i'll dream of all that beautiful oven sitting right here all
built in but nothing happens overnight right so i have myself a microwave very typical right here
what i did is i hung it on the all threads and i brought the all threads past the edge
that way i could put my cutting board and my paper stuff in here this pawl this is actually a door
which opens up to electrical where i put in a little 12-volt sub-panel
the main space in here is eight feet wide my future plans for this area i'd love to have a
really good jukey sewing machine right there but you know my love for tools doesn't end i
don't carry as many ladders as i used to but a man must have a ladder in order to play
because climbing is fun so i'll probably leave the holder for one ladder there without a doubt
this is a one horsepower 20 inch drill press and it means business the bike hitches forward
and then this will tilt that allows me to get to the crank to crank it around
it mounts to the wall i have a strap here if i undo that strap the tool will come out and it's
bolted into the main struts that define the frame six inch seriously heavy vise
this is a type one 12 inch dewalt chop saw below that is a table saw
the floor is opens up completely from end to end and it reveals
the long stuff the super long stuff i could put something in here up to 24 feet long
this was definitely all thought out before the construction began
i have one life to live and all that i really have is time living on the road
has changed my lifestyle tremendously i'm not gonna sit at home and watch tv and waste time
as if i had an infinite measure of it because i don't what i would say to anybody no matter
what you're thinking about just make sure you're living look back on the day
and know that you lived it what that is to you is is gonna be very unique to you
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