00:26Welcome back to the show.
00:27This is Patrick with New Jersey's Outdoor Adventures YouTube channel.
00:31On today's episode, we meet up with James with Rocky Mountain Builds.
00:35He's going to give us a tour of their new Expedition Series truck camper.
00:38And this thing is pretty incredible.
00:40So join us for the tour.
00:43Patrick, thanks for having us back on the show.
00:45Here with our next build, we're calling this one the Rocky Mountain Builds Expedition Series.
00:50And this is a very serious rig indeed.
00:53As you can see, this isn't like our normal stuff.
00:55This is not a camper van.
00:57This is a truck chassis camper.
00:59The truck in question here is a 2019 F350 Power Stroke.
01:03Really powerful truck.
01:05It's got a nice aftermarket Carly suspension kit, BFG tires, method wheels, flatbed conversion.
01:11And sitting on this thing is a composite camper shell that we built out in the interior to be absolutely
01:17stunning.
01:18Can't wait to get into it.
01:19But first, let's show you the outside of this thing.
01:22On this truck, we also have a nice AFN aftermarket front bumper with a 12-ton winch on the front,
01:29just in case you get yourself into trouble.
01:31Mounted to this custom flatbed is this composite camper shell.
01:35This thing has arctic turn windows all around.
01:38The windows are great.
01:39They're dual pane.
01:40They have screens and also sunshades as well.
01:44This Rotopax is actually for a diesel heater mounted inside.
01:48So it's an auxiliary heater.
01:51Right here is our alternator charger.
01:53This is hooked up to an EcoFlow 10-kilowatt power system.
01:58If you come around the back.
02:01On a rear bumper, we have mounted some traction boards.
02:06A little bit of rear access storage.
02:12This is our 50-amp shore power hookup.
02:15We got our water city fill port right here.
02:20Rear access outdoor shower.
02:28Coming around this way.
02:29We do also, in addition to the city water fill port,
02:32we have a gravity fill port, just in case.
02:35These are drains for both the freshwater and the gray water tank.
02:39And then this ladder to get to the roof is pretty neat.
02:42There's just two pins you pull out.
02:45This folds down.
02:47It's a little bit of a step, but if you want, you can get up to the roof like this.
02:53And it is pretty high up here.
02:55There's a lot of roof real estate on this thing.
02:57We have 800 watts of solar panels,
03:00a 120-volt green air conditioner and heat pump.
03:04And then there's room.
03:05There's a max air fan as well.
03:07A area for a Starlink Wi-Fi system.
03:10And room for an additional storage system, such as like a Thule ski box.
03:16One really neat thing about this build is that this truck camper shell
03:19is completely removable from your flatbed truck.
03:22The truck is not married to this shell, which is convenient
03:26because when you're not going camping, you can still use your truck
03:29as a normal flatbed truck and drive it around as needed.
03:32It's also nice if you ever upgrade your truck in the future,
03:35you can still use the same shell later on.
03:38To get these turnbuckles off, simply remove the pin in each corner.
03:43You pull up on this lever right here.
03:50The jack or the turnbuckle comes right off, just like that.
03:57And then the best part is these Ryko E-Jacks are wireless with a remote.
04:05To lower them, you simply press a button.
04:12As you can see, it's starting to move.
04:16And essentially what we're going to do is we're going to lift this whole thing up.
04:20Alright, so at this point, I've got all four of my lift jacks touching the ground.
04:26And I'm going to carefully pop it off the truck.
04:31There is a button on the remote that lifts all four jacks simultaneously, which is convenient.
04:38Now, this is a good simulation of a campsite because this ground isn't perfectly level.
04:44So I'm just going to be careful.
04:48Just like that.
04:51And we have liftoff.
04:54So, now you can see she is completely detached from the truck.
04:59And at this point, I can hop in the rig and drive it up from underneath.
05:04And then I can lower this down so it's stable and not blown in the wind after that.
05:09So we'll go ahead and pull the truck out so you can see.
05:30Now that we got the camper off the truck, might as well show the flatbed.
05:34So this is a custom-designed flatbed.
05:37It's got these aluminum storage boxes.
05:40There's one in each corner.
05:42To open these, simply press these buttons.
05:45You got a little bit of storage on the outside of your truck for, I don't know, stuff for recovery
05:50gear, things like that.
05:51But on the back, we have some traction boards as well.
05:57This flatbed has a 14-gauge steel diamond plate decking on top so that this truck is still useful even
06:04when you're not using your camper.
06:06All right, time to get this thing back on the truck.
06:08So basically what I'm going to do is I'm just going to back her right up under there, line it
06:13up as straight as I can.
06:14And then just do what I just did in reverse and put those fast gun turnbuckles back on and she's
06:20ready to rip.
06:44Once you've got the truck lined up pretty good, it doesn't have to be perfect.
06:48There's a little bit of wiggle room.
06:50But it's time we can lower the shell right back down onto our flatbed.
06:53So this truck is equipped with a really nice Carly suspension kit.
06:57We've got airbags in the rear.
06:59And it's kind of neat because they actually have a remote for the airbags too.
07:02So I'm going to start by pumping up our PSI in our airbags.
07:06Because then the rear of our truck is going to come up a bit.
07:09So I'll do that right now.
07:19And you can see the truck is going to start coming up just a little bit.
07:30And while that's filling up, I'm going to take back out my Ryko Titan E-Jacks.
07:35And I'm going to start lowering this shell down.
07:38So I'm going to stand where I can have a good angle on the whole thing.
07:41And once again, I'm just going to go slow and careful.
08:08Crank that on.
08:10Do the same thing on the other side.
08:12And I'm just going to plug back in our alternator charging as well.
08:15These are quick detach as well.
08:17So you can leave these at home.
08:19You can also just lift these up all the way and drive with them on the truck.
08:23All right.
08:23Next thing, I want to show you the inside of this thing.
08:25So to get in, we have this aluminum scissor step mounted to L-Track.
08:30That's right here on the side.
08:31Let me just open the door and we can come on in.
08:37This door does have a little hook here.
08:39So if you want to keep it open, you can hook it on right here and it won't blow in
08:43the wind.
08:47We do also have a Fiamma F45 awning right here to keep your entryway shaded.
08:53So coming on in the build, you'll first see a dinette in the rear.
08:59This is quite a loungy dinette.
09:02This is actually a genuine leather upholstery.
09:05Our client who wanted this thing has very elevated tastes.
09:08This is a solid walnut table on a lagoon table mount.
09:13You can see we did some fancy brass inlays in here.
09:16So it looks really slick.
09:18You might notice a bit of depth on the wall paint.
09:21That's because we actually used Roman clay to treat the walls.
09:26These are those arctic turn windows I mentioned earlier.
09:29So like I said, they have both a sunshade and also a screen.
09:35So when you open the door or when you open the window, you won't be letting bugs inside.
09:40All around the top, we got overhead storage.
09:44Cabinet construction here is using ultralight plywood.
09:48Our faces are veneered and walnut.
09:52Inside our overhead cabinetry, we're using really high-end cabinet stays or lid stays, apologies.
09:58This is our controller for our EcoFlow 10 kilowatt power system.
10:02You can see your 120 volt wattage.
10:05You can see your DC wattage and your input.
10:09So on this, we have solar, alternator charging, and shore power charging.
10:16And a big battery bank.
10:17So you're going to have a hard time running out of battery in this build.
10:20We also have our freshwater tank gauge in there as well.
10:24All the doors on this have nice cabinet latches too.
10:29So everything is going to stay shut and not open up while you're driving around.
10:34Right below me is actually a nice little drawer.
10:38We had a little bit of extra space.
10:40So we figured why not turn it into an extra storage bit.
10:45Right here is your sink.
10:49There's a removable cutting board that reveals this faucet.
10:55So it's kind of convenient.
10:56You can still have a flat surface when you're not using the sink.
11:02Wherever we have a room for a tip-out tray, do that.
11:07And then your cabinet underneath.
11:11There's room here for some overhead cabinet storage too.
11:18And next we have a nice big old stand-up shower.
11:22This thing was tough to make.
11:25We see we put this nice beautiful curve.
11:26It really draws the eye in from the outside.
11:28Again, we just got this beautiful walnut wood everywhere.
11:33And so this has a tam door.
11:36Tambor style sliding door.
11:39There's a light in here.
11:43Handheld faucet or shower head.
11:47Hot water, cold water.
11:48And a Leveo dry flush toilet.
11:51We also have a beautiful custom-made shower pan.
11:54And this nice slate finish inside the shower wall.
11:57So it's very striking.
11:59Really impressive in person.
12:02Right here is where we can cook.
12:05We got our induction cooktop.
12:06Dual burner.
12:08We have our refrigerator.
12:1012-volt refrigerator right here.
12:13More drawers.
12:16We use solid surface countertops.
12:19So they're nice.
12:20They don't care about vibrations and movement.
12:23They're not going to crack on you.
12:24They have a really high-end finish.
12:26And they're really just good for this use case.
12:29Then we just have a beautiful Ziya tile backsplash right here.
12:34In these cabinets above, there's more storage in here.
12:37There's an outlet back here as well.
12:41And in this side, we actually have a microwave.
12:46And right above here is a max air fan.
12:49And right here is that Gree 120-volt AC and heat pump.
12:55What I'm standing on is actually really interesting.
12:58Our client is from Oregon.
13:00And he actually was able to reclaim some hickory floorboards from a historic home.
13:06And really wanted to use them inside this build.
13:08So what we did is a French herringbone, just custom hickory hardwood floor.
13:14And so that was a bit of a feat for us.
13:16But we think it turned out beautiful.
13:18And it is, again, just another very unique feature about this build-out.
13:24Finally, you come up in here.
13:27You can see there's a nice big room for a queen-size mattress.
13:32Again, there's four more Arctic-turn windows throughout.
13:36On the side here, we have storage.
13:39A bed shelf.
13:40And there is an outlet hidden inside there as well.
13:46Our ceiling, we used a construction with some walnut wood slats.
13:52Just super pretty.
13:53Draws your eye down the whole length of the build.
13:56We used 12-volt puck lighting.
13:59They're nice, soft white.
14:02And we have recessed lighting all throughout the build.
14:07Including some accent lights on the toe kicks.
14:12The final cool feature to show you about this build-out is this whole dinette actually converts into a second
14:17bed.
14:18And I'll show you how that's done.
14:20So this table, first, we're going to remove it.
14:24So I'll just loosen that up.
14:26Take that off.
14:27I'm going to put it aside for now.
14:30And then just deconstruct this.
14:37Now, as you'll see, we have some wooden edges right here that this table is going to sit on.
14:51And then you've got yourself a nice big extra bed if you have more than just yourself and a partner
14:58sleeping in the over cab bed over there.
15:01Next, I just want to show you our EcoFlow power system.
15:05It's just located right beneath the cushions here.
15:11EcoFlow power system is really nice because it's very compact.
15:15You don't need a whole lot of space.
15:17The batteries stack on each other.
15:19So we have two different 5-kilowatt batteries here.
15:23And the EcoFlow power system right here is an all-in-one.
15:26Your inverter is in there.
15:27Your solar charger is in there.
15:29Your DC-to-DC charger all packed into one system.
15:33So we can condense it down into just this one little box here.
15:37So that concludes this tour of this custom truck camper.
15:40We hope you guys enjoyed it.
15:41We really spent a lot of time, really big effort on this truck camper.
15:47And we just think it turned out amazing.
15:49This truck camper chassis is something new for us.
15:51Something we'd love to do more of.
15:53We had a really fun time with this build.
15:55A little bit about us.
15:57My partner and I were based in Salt Lake City, Utah.
16:00We pride ourselves on handmade, fully custom campers.
16:05Just like you see here.
16:07We like to spend a lot of time on attention to detail
16:10and making sure we can pack in a lot of features
16:12that you, the client, might want to meet your specific needs.
16:17If you want something like this or something a little bit different,
16:21our links are in the description.
16:23Patrick, thank you so much again for having us on the channel.
16:26We hope your viewers enjoyed this one.
16:29And we got more builds in the pipeline.
16:31So we hope to see you guys next time.
16:32Thank you so much.
16:33And we'll see you guys next time.
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