Free NOT mine - free to a good home, orphaned Chalet unit #1671 in Chardon Ohio

[a77blazerchalet]

One of my Chalet spotter pals alerted me to one he was told about, a lady just wants the neglected orphaned camper unit on her property to go to a good home. Said to me directly she does not want money for it. Would need a ton of work, plus all the effort to extract it from where it sits and properly load it (the front must be supported where the Blazer cab roof no longer does, and the pop-up roof must be securely tied down).

I figure it's a matter of courtesy to her on not spreading her personal contact info too openly, so I have that in the #1 entry for her camper unit at my 'complete rigs / orphaned units for sale' map linky --> here. Maybe the bot spammers who glean such contacts won't pick up hers when I have it one increment less easy to see.

 

[USSkoval]

Dang, that's the opposite corner of Ohio lol. Is there a deadline that it needs to be gone by? How can it be loaded without further damage? It looks like it's on a pallet, but the lower area looks to be pretty well deteriorated. Do you know off hand what the estimated weight would be?

I don't have a use for it at all, but if I can manage to save it for someone else at some point, I wouldn't mind keeping it around my place.

 

[a77blazerchalet]

The owner (I assume that's what she is) said almost nothing about it in the Facebook PMs I've exchanged with her. She initially contacted Miles Blackard at his FB page for these rigs (don't get him started on his war with Zuckerberg's outfit), then he Pm'd me with a photo of the serial number plate along with her avatar image, which enableed me to find out which of many common names like hers was her account. Pretty much all she said was the contact info I put into my map point, and that she didn't want money for it. That's it. I sent her an email after I created the entry at my map to let her know of this CK5 additional effort to get the word out. No reply yet.

Can't vouch for the condition personally, I'm multi-states away from it. Can't say that I know how these would be loaded without cracking them up worse than they are. I just know that they were never designed to be self-supporting, so either they'd have to be transported on a Blazer/Jimmy where the cab roof and bedrails support the unit again, or on a pickup with a means of supporting the cabover part, or on a trailer with a decent amount of framework to hold up the front. Count on at least 800+ lbs for the unit just by itself, but then add in what some wood framing would be along with a temporary plywood sheet to cover over the front opening if it ends up facing frontwards - ya don't want it acting like a giant air scoop.

For ideas on loading/unloading, and complex vs just two big timbers to hold up the front edges, an old photo composite of Casa Grande #0883 being removed, and two weeks-old transports of Chalet #1198 and #1645 separately being hauled by two guys who contacted me about their restorations:

 

[imiceman44]

The owner (I assume that's what she is) said almost nothing about it in the Facebook PMs I've exchanged with her. She initially contacted Miles Blackard at his FB page for these rigs (don't get him started on his war with Zuckerberg's outfit), then he Pm'd me with a photo of the serial number plate along with her avatar image, which enableed me to find out which of many common names like hers was her account. Pretty much all she said was the contact info I put into my map point, and that she didn't want money for it. That's it. I sent her an email after I created the entry at my map to let her know of this CK5 additional effort to get the word out. No reply yet.

Can't vouch for the condition personally, I'm multi-states away from it. Can't say that I know how these would be loaded without cracking them up worse than they are. I just know that they were never designed to be self-supporting, so either they'd have to be transported on a Blazer/Jimmy where the cab roof and bedrails support the unit again, or on a pickup with a means of supporting the cabover part, or on a trailer with a decent amount of framework to hold up the front. Count on at least 800+ lbs for the unit just by itself, but then add in what some wood framing would be along with a temporary plywood sheet to cover over the front opening if it ends up facing frontwards - ya don't want it acting like a giant air scoop.

For ideas on loading/unloading, and complex vs just two big timbers to hold up the front edges, an old photo composite of Casa Grande #0883 being removed, and two weeks-old transports of Chalet #1198 and #1645 separately being hauled by two guys who contacted me about their restorations:

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I can tell you that the front isn't that weak, but the bottom definitely is.
I support the area that rests on the bedrail and strap the top down.
I even cutoff the bottom because it was beyond saving.
Still supported by the sides