Tuesday Day 4

Today was had less action to photograph. The work was all interior finishing. Cabinet doors, dash board, TV's, DVD and lots of inspections by the quality control people. There were about 15 different Tiffin workers running in and out all day. Here are a few photos from today.

Inspectors were inside for almost 2 hours checking everything.
Green tape is used to indicate a problem with operation or fit & finish.

The driver cockpit is now operational. There sure are plenty of switches and indicators. All this just to drive the motor home! The seat was installed after this photo was taken.
I have to drive this rig in about 4 weeks.

The residential style frig is in and working well. Cabinet work is near completion. The doors were all installed later in the afternoon. The installer said there were a total of 89 doors to install.

The TV's are all quite complex. Not just the old RG6 cable to each set. CAT-5 cables and multiple HDMI cables plug in everywhere. This is behind the front cabinet, TV mounted to the left of this.

Center TV is in and working. We watched the Santa Clause DVD staring Tim Allen (The Tool Man). The Tiffin crew had to work so they missed the movie.

Monday Day 3

Monday started out with activity inside and ended with all the doors and most of the interior finished. There are still 1 1/2 days of mechanical assembly then it goes to the Belmont MS paint building for another five days. Here are a few photos from day 3.

There are 4 slide outs. This is the bedroom right side.

Slide getting close

One slide is in place

Bathroom slide is larger. Two others up front are much larger.

Exterior doors are next and there are about a dozen doors.

Front driver side slide is in with large sofa bed.

Here it is before the doors were installed.

Going back in the plant for the next 6 work stations. It's just a big gray box but the paint work next week at Belmont will look much better.

Friday Day 2

Tiffin employees did a lot of work on Friday. The interior cabinets are in, walls are up, roof was installed late in the afternoon. Here are some selected photos of the 200 I took today.
Monday will be day 3.

Got to have a nice shower

Electric fireplace is needed

Front end coming together

Side walls being attached

Here comes the roof about ready to install

Interior cabinets

Roof is attached and lights are on

Rear fiberglass cap is attached

AC units are being installed while other workers are inside below

It's Friday and time for the weekend.
Back on Monday at 6:00am

Thursday Day 1 Our New Motor Home Begins

April 21 starts construction of our Tiffin Phaeton 40AH diesel pusher motor home. Here are a few of the 200 photos I took today. More tomorrow........

Lots of electrical work

Cummins 380hp turbo diesel

Exhaust system with plenty of pollution stuff

Front mounted 10 KW diesel generator

Water control panel

Sub-floor ready to bolt to the frame

Ceramic tile flooring installed in one huge piece almost 40 ft long

Tile floor in place, end of day one

Red Bay Alabama @ Tiffin Motorhome Factory

This is our home for the next month. We are two blocks from the factory gate so walking distance to watch our new motorhome on the assembly line.The process starts Thursday at 6:00am. 

You can locate us at http://findu.com/cgi-bin/find.cgi?call=K9GPS-13 to find us in Red Bay.

Getting Ready

We plan on taking our trip to Alabama on Monday April 18. Here are some last minute details.

Another thing I will not need to do.

Mark likes to cut thing up.

Mark worked hard to cut up my tree. Thanks for the help Mark!

Jim and Carol have a new slightly used mower. Now I can't mow any more grass.

Last dinner with Mobilcomm friends. Thanks Jim & Nancy. We will see you again later this year.

Monday April 18 we are ready to roll out for Alabama.

We Are South Dakotans

 Welcome to Emery South Dakota 

We are now citizens of South Dakota as of Wednesday April 6th.
Our home town is Emery, SD.

Emery is a small farm town, all about corn and other grain. Grain elevators are everywhere. A railroad track is next to the grain elevator. Population is about 400. Everyone we met were friendly even though we were strangers to them.

Our address in Emery

We receive our mail here with about 2400 other people.
It's a bit crowded in the house when everyone is at home.

Lots of hunters live & visit South Dakota. Information says everyone in SD carries a gun so be polite.

Wind power is everywhere in Illinois and other northern states. We saw thousands of these during our 2000 miles of driving on our trip to SD

Not much except corn fields, many thousands of acres and a few farm houses spaced far apart on flat land. Drive for hours and you don't see many people or cars, just lots of trucks, many are grain haulers.
The main roads and interstates are well paved.

We now have our SD driver licenses and SD license plates!
This one goes on the motorhome when we get back to Lawrenceburg.

Heading back to Lawrenceburg for about 10 days then south to Alabama

Official Retirements

Mary retired on March 25, 2016. Lee retired March 31, 2016. Photos are from Mobilcomm at Lee's retirement send-off. Our house is almost empty, just keeping essential items in the house for about two more weeks. Another garage sale will be held Friday & Saturday April 15 & 16 to dispose of the last items. Everything must go that weekend or it goes in that dumpster!