Automate

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Our Automate is a custom design to our plans, it is just over 38 feet long and weighed 12,160 pounds when it came off the production line. The top of the roof vent covers is 12 feet 4 inches from the ground and it is 96 inches wide. We went with a single slide for many reasons. The storage and counter space lost to a slide decided us against a second main floor slide, to keep the counter space we had now we would have had to add 18 inches and we still would have lost a lot of storage space. We decided to lengthen the bedroom and put in an 86 inch mattress and raise the roof as far as possible instead of using a slide there. The resulting rig is very usable with the slide in, we can't get to one cabinet, everything else is accessible with no problem. A side effect of the larger bedroom is that the basement is huge, with a 7,000 plus pound NCC and 19,500 GVW this isn't a drawback. We weigh between 15,000 and 16,000 pounds as we travel depending on food shopping and dumping availability. With 100 gallons of fresh water and 3, 45 gallon holding tanks we can boondock comfortably for two weeks. Four golf cart batteries and four 100 watt solar panels make it pretty cushy too!
	Frame	The frame is cut and jig welded.
	Floor	The floor is cut laminated and secured to the frame.
	End Walls	The end walls are cut insulated and laminated.
	Slide	The components of the slide are built.
	Electrical	The electrical wires are cut to size and installed in the rig.
	Cabinets	The construction of the cabinets.
	Kitchen	The kitchen area is assembled.
	Side Walls	The side wall frame is welded and laminated.
	Wall and Roof	The walls are joined to the frame and roof is joined to the walls.
	Windows	The windows are installed.
	Moving Outside	Moving the completed unit outside.
	Interior	A look at the completed interior.