Instead of using spacers and a tarp, this one would allow the snow to slide off :)
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I made a similar one with PVC, and have used it successfully for two winters, up to 6 of snow. Covered it with the cloth rv cover then a big tarp. Works fine. I use pool noodles to keep the PVC off the camper. Under $60 for parts.
Ron
This sounds like a good idea Sheep Creek has brought up and how you did it on the cheap sounds even better. My question is what size PVC did you use. 2 inch pipe or what ?
Thanks
Jim T
1" and be sure to use both parts of the PVC glue system. I only used the glue, not the purple stuff and many of my joints came unglued.
Can I still post a picture here? As soon as my dell home computer gets thru updating I will try and post a picture of it. Mine was not nearly as tall as the commercial one, I used milk crates in the center to hold up a center beam, and bowed the ribs, it looks like a upside down skeleton for a shallow and wide canoe on top of my camper.
Dang,could not find my pictures anywhere, and the frame is disassembled and stored in a difficult place so I cannot get you a picture right now.
BUT, here is how to build one. I basically used 1" PVC and 90 degree elbow connectors and T connectors. Use both the runny purple cleaner and PVC glue in your assemble.
I built a perimeter frame in my driveway, that is 6" wider than the camper all the way around, except at the front radius, where it sticks over 2' or so. This entire frame will sit on the roof of the RV, and be spaced away from the roof with pool noodles, to keep it from rubbing the roof. Again, think of the skeleton of a wide and shallow canoe, inverted on top of the camper.
Construction FRONT AND BACK.
This will be the back piece and front piece. All of these are glued. Take a 8' PVC, and cut it in half and insert/glue in a T connector.
Next the SIDE PIECES will be roughly the length of the RV from the back to the front of the radius. I made this in two pieces, for ease of installation and storage.
I then put a 90 degree coupler on each end of the front and back piece, four required. Glue these. Then glue an 8' piece into each of these four couplers. Be sure that the T of the back and front pieces is facing inwards of your rectangle, and slightly upwards.
All of this is done laying flat on the pavement of the driveway.
The exposed ends of the 8' pieces will now get a connector T connector, glued only in one place.
you can now lay the two ends facing each other, with the 8' pieces touching each other and you should have a big rectangle. I assemble these together with screw, allowing for disassembly.
Now us a long piece, that is 2' longer than your side pieces, it goes inserted in the two T connectors of your end pieces, thus the upward point of these connectors. This 2' of extra length will form the RIB, bowing upwards when the entire assembly is in place. ............
this is becoming way to hard to do, and probably impossible to follow. ............
Let me get you a picture of it on the back of the shed.
I just tried to post a picture and drawing under Camplite Travel trailers. PM me and see if it worked.
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The pix posted OK, but they are too small to see the details. Try posting as attachments using the "Add Attachments" button in the upper right of your screen. Before selecting the pictures you should edit them using an application such as Paint, built into Windows. The forum will accept up to 5 pictures per post, each one up to 1MB in size. Selecting a size of 1200x800 or 800x600 pixels yields a very usable image and a relatively small file size. The pictures will display as small thumbnails in the post, but when clicked they expand into large images with lots of detail. [/font]
Thanks Charlie, I think I did as you noted.