Very cool you're restoring vintage travel trailers. A few years ago I restored a 1955 Hanson Love Bug I rescued from my neighbors! Thanks for the video! I had thought of the wood to use to slide the cooler up, hadn't thought of a come-a-long to do it with though, and I have one I just used to stretch new wire fencing.
Brought back memories from the 1950's. In Southern-Calif one summer my mother took a fan or maybe two and placed it in a window and ran the hose up on the roof and drew the air through the hose rain fall. My father bought a swamp cooler for the house after that. Another time we took a trip east, and we had a small swamp cooler hanging outside the car window. I was to young to know if the fan was run by the air going into the unit or if it had a dc voltage van inside. 1952 Plymouth wagon.
On our torpedo-shaped window swamp cooler in the late 50's and early 60's, it was simply the air going through the unit plus the water that we poured into it, that gave us some mild relief inside our hot station wagon with 2 adults and 4 or 5 young, sweaty kids. Just recently I saw one of these window mounted coolers at a car show, and thought, wow, how "cool". And I'm 67 now.
Don’t forget to open a window in farthest corner from cooler to release pressure and allow better cooling up high will Push warmer air out. If not gets humid stops working.
I like how you decided to do it yourself! How many times have we waited for the contractor or labor guy to come, and they're sick or have some excuse. Only thing I would not have done is get under that AC unit to nail that board! If it slipped, you would have got hurt! Great job!
Evap coolers don't work so good in humid weather. It puts even more moisture in the air. Their basically used in dry weather. But you can still use the blower to keep air moving & therefore cooler. You can shut off the pump.
from one Larry to another...way to stick to it! Creative thinking! I've had many projects when I said no way, but I'm stubborn and cheap. Now I'm installing a swamp cooler in my garage. Its actually Australian made, is flat on the rear pane it's technically a portable on legs, but inside the pad is shaped in a big U to increase the surface area of the pad. I'll cut a hole in the side wall and butt the back end up to the hole and rest the cooler on interior shelving, and vent through a garage door panel kitty korner wrt the cooler, or just raise the garage door a couple inches. By the way, in my experimenting with aspen pads (or straw as you call them), they actually are excellent when compared with the synthetic blue pads. As you noted, one key it to get equal distribution of the water over the pads to soak them uniformly. my wife and I had a swamp cooler in our first house, but the cooler was mounted through the exterior wall of the dining room and could've blown a turkey off the dining room table so it got little use (poor design by the previous owner haha).
I prefer the swamp cooler on the ground then vent up. I took care of 9 of them at a warehouse I worked at. But damn they leak and fuck up their foundation levels.
MY 2 CENTS - remove the cooler pad panels (like another viewer suggests). Remove the heavy motor. Now it will be much easier for you to manhandle it alone. Instead of nailing the stop board on your ramp, just clamp it, and re-clamp it as you go up the ramp. Forget the come-along. With the heavy weight removed, you can physically scoot it up the ramp, and clamp and scoot as you ALTERNATELY push the lower 2 corners of the cooler up the ramp about 6 - 12 inches with each alternate push, reclamping as you move up the ramp so the cooler does not slide backwards with each forward and upward scoot of the lower two corners. You will probably only need to reclamp one corner with each forward move, as the opposite corner will just pivot with the clamp in place.
@@mobiltec Oh, thank you. I injured my back many years ago, and am always developing and/or using ways of safely moving things by myself and without injuring myself. I've worked with lots of 'macho men' in various jobs and projects over many years, who seem to love manhandling stuff WITHOUT FIRST thinking it through. I use every assistive tool or devise I can - dollies/hand trucks, roller platforms, wheelbarrows, winches, hoists, pulleys, come-alongs, prybars, 2x4 levers, my oldToyota PU (for pulling, pushing, and dragging). I even use women at garage sales who love to help me move stuff - I never turn them down, and they really enjoy helping this wimpy man!
@@mobiltec I can live with 80 degrees. I'm in AZ & 80 is comfortable to me. But I'm not working in here. Again, thanks for the vid fo ALL it offers as well as being inspirational!
Right on man, I've done it myself with no help; just be sure to spend the money you saved on yourself. Doing this, I had my girlfriend, some tie downs and an extension ladder for a ramp. It's running great.
Great work Larry, are you in east New Mexico/west TX by chance? Swamp coolers work good, but arent as effective there because it tends to get more humid. Way out west you could get 70 degree air at 100 out.
Is that a Champion cooler? I just got a new one, same size as yours, the control knob looks different from mine though. I'm trying to figure out the things that hold the pads in place. All previous evaps I've gotten, and I've been using them since the mid-70's here in the AZ desert, have the usual 3 separate wire things that hold the pads in place. This new one I have doesn't, it has like bars across that are held in place on each side of the panel with black plastic round things that push into into a hole. I can see it will be a short matter of time before these things break. Why do companies keep trying to reinvent the wheel when you can't improve on an already perfect design?? Drives. Me. Crazy.
Oh mine aren't like that. They aren't champions. I forget what they are. But they have the regular wire retainers. 3 of them. And the one major thing I can tell you is to use the normal shredded stuff like what comes with them and the big secret is to make sure to tuck the top of the stuff up underneath the water troths. That will insure that the whole pad get's thorouly wet. Makes a huge difference in how well it cools.
Water gets to the cooler via a 1/4 inch plastic line from the inside and can be disconnected at either end. Electric is inside next to the cooler. Just plugs in to the wall. All the directions come with the cooler.
Normies (low use brains) will look at that cooler and ask, "Who helped ya get that up there?!" and not believe your answer! So glad God helped you find a perfect shop...sure beats watching you work in the heat under blue tarps! Felt so sorry for you on some of those videos!
WOW! So much done wrong. Look don't take this bad or as insult. It is not meant to be but I see you doing things that are just WTF kinda things. Like Hammering the nails on bouncy planks of wood all the while you are right under it. At any time that cooler could have flipped back or the strap go under. The more head scratcher thing is WHY didn't you take off the panels off and make it lighter. That would have made it so the strap can be run through it and be way more secure.
Well maybe you should have been here to help. I did try to hire "professionals" but they never showed up. Hey I got the thing in there didn't I? Where the hell were you?
@@mobiltec Yeah you could look at it that way. Kinda like watching a horror movies, when the victim runs upstairs instead of just leaving the house. You sit there yelling at the TV "NO! DON'T do THAT! OMG she is so stupid." In any case I was wondering how you got it home in the first place. If you brought it home in the back of a pickup truck, you should have left it on the truck. To not have to start from ground level. And possibly not to have to use the come along. The Come Along. Such an amazing invention, don't you think.? Should you need to do something like this again, use a rope and pulley. You don't want the come along to have to move.
@@AztecWarrior69_69 I brought it home in the back of a van. I was able to get it out of the van in the box OK. And two men were supposed to come install it on the platform I had already built. Like I said, they never showed up. The new one I put on the house all by myself went up easier. I did take that one apart first. Used a back hoe to lift it up to the roof. Watch my video "PERFECT LANDING" to see how I got the old one down... I think you'll like that one.
Evaporative Cooler. or Swamp Cooler. The air moving through the wet pads causes the water to evaporate quickly which cools down the air. This is how most people living in arid and dry areas cool their buildings. Very inexpensive compared to air conditioning.
4 years later and contractors are still always canceling. I think maybe the dudes need to keep the parties to the weekends or leave it to the pros. Haha.
It's very dry here where I live. Very little humidity. Once in a great while it will get up to maybe 30%. Of course during a thunder storm the humidity rises but it doesn't last long. This thing has been working great for 2 years.
@@mobiltec Larry what are the specs on the cooler, CFM? Also what is the sq feet of your shop? I am going to install one soon, just need some specs on yours....
The comment telling you how you could have done it better, from my experience, would be greatly unappreciated! My comment is - you got 'er done, Bud, and all by yourself which I hope brings you great satisfaction. I'm about your age and I have the curse of being handy but it has become increasingly difficult to find any good help. I have pushed myself more and more to be self-reliant and I find that, just as you did, if I take my time and trust my instincts, as you said, I can do just about anything. As Archimedes said, "If you give me a lever and a fulcrum upon which to place it, I can move the world!"
I figured it would be in a stronger configuration with the pads in and that way I wouldn't take such a chance of tweeking all the spot welded joints on the thing. I did take the pads out when I changed out the one on the house though and you are right. MUCH lighter LOL... Where were you when I did that one? Check out this video of me getting rid of the one on the house. ruclips.net/video/PT8jqmqm_0I/видео.html
I know and I said that in the description but no one ever takes the time to read that. When filming we make mistakes because we are thinking mostly about the shot and what we say.
this is how my husband was doing it by himself. You can't find good help anymore. We enjoyed your video.
Great job Larry, your comfort just went up substantially. Congratulations to you on making it happen.
Very cool you're restoring vintage travel trailers. A few years ago I restored a 1955 Hanson Love Bug I rescued from my neighbors! Thanks for the video! I had thought of the wood to use to slide the cooler up, hadn't thought of a come-a-long to do it with though, and I have one I just used to stretch new wire fencing.
Out here I have to do pretty much everything on my own. Might take a little longer but I get er done.
Brought back memories from the 1950's. In Southern-Calif one summer my mother took a fan or maybe two and placed it in a window and ran the hose up on the roof and drew the air through the hose rain fall. My father bought a swamp cooler for the house after that. Another time we took a trip east, and we had a small swamp cooler hanging outside the car window. I was to young to know if the fan was run by the air going into the unit or if it had a dc voltage van inside. 1952 Plymouth wagon.
On our torpedo-shaped window swamp cooler in the late 50's and early 60's, it was simply the air going through the unit plus the water that we poured into it, that gave us some mild relief inside our hot station wagon with 2 adults and 4 or 5 young, sweaty kids. Just recently I saw one of these window mounted coolers at a car show, and thought, wow, how "cool". And I'm 67 now.
As they say.....necessity is the mother of invention. Good job sir!
Thank you.
Good for you!!!!!! Good help is so hard to find. If you do it yourself, you do it the right way!
Don’t forget to open a window in farthest corner from cooler to release pressure and allow better cooling up high will
Push warmer air out. If not gets humid stops working.
I installed two vents up in the top of the gables. Vents just fine...
Thats Great Larry. Now you can do it the west Texas way i . did and put your fishing minnows in the bottom tank.They keep well!!!
I remember swamp coolers when I was in the Marine Corps, stationed at NAS Memphis, TN.
I like how you decided to do it yourself! How many times have we waited for the contractor or labor guy to come, and they're sick or have some excuse. Only thing I would not have done is get under that AC unit to nail that board! If it slipped, you would have got hurt! Great job!
Evap coolers don't work so good in humid weather. It puts even more moisture in the air. Their basically used in dry weather. But you can still use the blower to keep air moving & therefore cooler. You can shut off the pump.
We have VERY dry weather here. Even when it rains it's dry LOL...
from one Larry to another...way to stick to it! Creative thinking! I've had many projects when I said no way, but I'm stubborn and cheap. Now I'm installing a swamp cooler in my garage. Its actually Australian made, is flat on the rear pane it's technically a portable on legs, but inside the pad is shaped in a big U to increase the surface area of the pad. I'll cut a hole in the side wall and butt the back end up to the hole and rest the cooler on interior shelving, and vent through a garage door panel kitty korner wrt the cooler, or just raise the garage door a couple inches. By the way, in my experimenting with aspen pads (or straw as you call them), they actually are excellent when compared with the synthetic blue pads. As you noted, one key it to get equal distribution of the water over the pads to soak them uniformly. my wife and I had a swamp cooler in our first house, but the cooler was mounted through the exterior wall of the dining room and could've blown a turkey off the dining room table so it got little use (poor design by the previous owner haha).
The main key is to tuck the top of the straw pads under the water trough...
Good job Larry. I know you will appreciate it ,I would. Have a good day sir.
i'm glad you got it un but you took some big risks... kinda nail biting.
My wrhse is about the same temp each day here in Hawaii.. All metal building of course.
You should seal the air gaps around your air cooler so that the cool air won't go out of that hole.
I did...
@@mobiltec There's daylight shining in around the grille.
I prefer the swamp cooler on the ground then vent up. I took care of 9 of them at a warehouse I worked at. But damn they leak and fuck up their foundation levels.
Good job and congrats! Nobody can tell us old guys that we don't rule! 😎
Great work !!!! What did you do to seal it up?
Great STuff. No leaks.
MY 2 CENTS - remove the cooler pad panels (like another viewer suggests). Remove the heavy motor. Now it will be much easier for you to manhandle it alone. Instead of nailing the stop board on your ramp, just clamp it, and re-clamp it as you go up the ramp. Forget the come-along. With the heavy weight removed, you can physically scoot it up the ramp, and clamp and scoot as you ALTERNATELY push the lower 2 corners of the cooler up the ramp about 6 - 12 inches with each alternate push, reclamping as you move up the ramp so the cooler does not slide backwards with each forward and upward scoot of the lower two corners. You will probably only need to reclamp one corner with each forward move, as the opposite corner will just pivot with the clamp in place.
I pinned this so others can see your great advice.
@@mobiltec Oh, thank you. I injured my back many years ago, and am always developing and/or using ways of safely moving things by myself and without injuring myself. I've worked with lots of 'macho men' in various jobs and projects over many years, who seem to love manhandling stuff WITHOUT FIRST thinking it through. I use every assistive tool or devise I can - dollies/hand trucks, roller platforms, wheelbarrows, winches, hoists, pulleys, come-alongs, prybars, 2x4 levers, my oldToyota PU (for pulling, pushing, and dragging). I even use women at garage sales who love to help me move stuff - I never turn them down, and they really enjoy helping this wimpy man!
Not that this is a super interesting video but the fact you took the time to film it and your commentary reminds me of my Pa, subbed.
Thanks.
Thats a big shop for that size cooler.
I'm glad to see it works. I'm going to put one in a 24x24 garage.
T4TV.
You are right. I want a bigger one. This one keeps the shop at 80 degrees when it's over 100 outside. I know I can do better.
@@mobiltec I can live with 80 degrees. I'm in AZ & 80 is comfortable to me. But I'm not working in here.
Again, thanks for the vid fo ALL it offers as well as being inspirational!
Right on man, I've done it myself with no help; just be sure to spend the money you saved on yourself. Doing this, I had my girlfriend, some tie downs and an extension ladder for a ramp. It's running great.
I've got to find me one of those girl friends... A little help around here would be great.
I am so happy for you . Larry..
I like to use screws uspecially for a temporary set like the boards on the incline.
Yep that would have worked better. Never seen nails stick that well before. Sinkers are made to stick I know but I've never seen them stick like that.
Great work Larry, are you in east New Mexico/west TX by chance? Swamp coolers work good, but arent as effective there because it tends to get more humid. Way out west you could get 70 degree air at 100 out.
I'm in Northern Nevada and it is very dry here.
@@mobiltec Ah, okay.
You should have put cooler coat on the whole bottom of the cooler to keep it from rusting & corrosion.
T4TV.
I will do that at the end of this summer. My friend and I were just talking about that very thing. Best to do it when new.
Is that a Champion cooler? I just got a new one, same size as yours, the control knob looks different from mine though. I'm trying to figure out the things that hold the pads in place. All previous evaps I've gotten, and I've been using them since the mid-70's here in the AZ desert, have the usual 3 separate wire things that hold the pads in place. This new one I have doesn't, it has like bars across that are held in place on each side of the panel with black plastic round things that push into into a hole. I can see it will be a short matter of time before these things break. Why do companies keep trying to reinvent the wheel when you can't improve on an already perfect design?? Drives. Me. Crazy.
Oh mine aren't like that. They aren't champions. I forget what they are. But they have the regular wire retainers. 3 of them. And the one major thing I can tell you is to use the normal shredded stuff like what comes with them and the big secret is to make sure to tuck the top of the stuff up underneath the water troths. That will insure that the whole pad get's thorouly wet. Makes a huge difference in how well it cools.
By the way this cooler came from True Value. So what ever they sell.
Vibrations are lowered by putting motor mounts essentially.
Great job Larry, I can feel the cool air from here!
That's one fine cooler then Mike LOL
Make a table out of those 2 X 6's for your Bar-B-Que! Good job getting that up there!
Good idea!
How did you seal it?
Great Stuff...
how do you disconnect the water and electric?
Water gets to the cooler via a 1/4 inch plastic line from the inside and can be disconnected at either end. Electric is inside next to the cooler. Just plugs in to the wall. All the directions come with the cooler.
@@mobiltec got it thanks
Normies (low use brains) will look at that cooler and ask, "Who helped ya get that up there?!" and not believe your answer! So glad God helped you find a perfect shop...sure beats watching you work in the heat under blue tarps! Felt so sorry for you on some of those videos!
LOL thanks. It really is much better working here.
: > )
WOW! So much done wrong. Look don't take this bad or as insult. It is not meant to be but I see you doing things that are just WTF kinda things.
Like Hammering the nails on bouncy planks of wood all the while you are right under it. At any time that cooler could have flipped back or the strap go under.
The more head scratcher thing is WHY didn't you take off the panels off and make it lighter. That would have made it so the strap can be run through it and be way more secure.
Well maybe you should have been here to help. I did try to hire "professionals" but they never showed up. Hey I got the thing in there didn't I? Where the hell were you?
@mobiltec actually you wouldn't have needed my help, well only advice help.
@@AztecWarrior69_69 If nothing else it was entertaining.
@@mobiltec Yeah you could look at it that way. Kinda like watching a horror movies, when the victim runs upstairs instead of just leaving the house. You sit there yelling at the TV "NO! DON'T do THAT! OMG she is so stupid."
In any case I was wondering how you got it home in the first place. If you brought it home in the back of a pickup truck, you should have left it on the truck. To not have to start from ground level. And possibly not to have to use the come along.
The Come Along. Such an amazing invention, don't you think.? Should you need to do something like this again, use a rope and pulley. You don't want the come along to have to move.
@@AztecWarrior69_69 I brought it home in the back of a van. I was able to get it out of the van in the box OK. And two men were supposed to come install it on the platform I had already built. Like I said, they never showed up. The new one I put on the house all by myself went up easier. I did take that one apart first. Used a back hoe to lift it up to the roof. Watch my video "PERFECT LANDING" to see how I got the old one down... I think you'll like that one.
Hey, Larry,,,, Is that a new cooler.... Looks new... Us older gents get stuff done... Nice work. Stan and Mariann
Brand new Stan...
So thats how they built the pyramids of Giza lol
awesome job Larry
Thanks Richard...
Great video! More shop updates. I love them.
If you want it done right, just do it yourself... Great Job!!!
If you want it done at all you have to do it yourself in this town LOL...
What is the width of it
30 inches I think.
Initial instalation , sixty pounds lighter by removing pad panels when placing on stand....
I commend you sir, for your ingenuity.
Glad its working for you and great job on the install!
That was actually kinda fun... Doing the video made it more fun...
Nice Job Larry! Its been Hot AF so far this summer. Stay cool my friend.
"if there"s a will, there"s a way" This is a great video. Never really heard of a swamp cooler..
Evaporative Cooler. or Swamp Cooler. The air moving through the wet pads causes the water to evaporate quickly which cools down the air. This is how most people living in arid and dry areas cool their buildings. Very inexpensive compared to air conditioning.
mobiltec They shop temp dropped quickly, looks to be very efficient. I kept thinking to myself, If Iived closer I would have been there helping!
Ya the thing works pretty well. I have a much more expensive one on the house and it REALLY works good. But it was about $1500... Sears.
Lots of great comments Larry. And, as usual those Monday quarterbacks gotta throw their 2 cents in . I guess now that's 20¢. LOL. nice work sir.
LOL there are some goodies here. Everyone seems to have their own way of doing things.
4 years later and contractors are still always canceling. I think maybe the dudes need to keep the parties to the weekends or leave it to the pros. Haha.
Ya I know. The math was wrong. It was 16 degrees cooler....
After learning to stuff the matting under the water tray it is now cooling properly to at least 20 degrees cooler than the outside air.
brilliantly done. kudos
Thanks Larry , great show !
Thanks CJ...
I sure do like you. You work and talk like I do. I am an electrician by trade also. leverage is wonderful.God bless you.
"Give me a lever big enough and I will move the world"...
Right off bat at the beginning you're talking about humidity. Swamp coolers don't work in humid climates!!
It's very dry here where I live. Very little humidity. Once in a great while it will get up to maybe 30%. Of course during a thunder storm the humidity rises but it doesn't last long. This thing has been working great for 2 years.
@@mobiltec Larry what are the specs on the cooler, CFM? Also what is the sq feet of your shop? I am going to install one soon, just need some specs on yours....
That flu going around ain't no joke !
The comment telling you how you could have done it better, from my experience, would be greatly unappreciated! My comment is - you got 'er done, Bud, and all by yourself which I hope brings you great satisfaction. I'm about your age and I have the curse of being handy but it has become increasingly difficult to find any good help. I have pushed myself more and more to be self-reliant and I find that, just as you did, if I take my time and trust my instincts, as you said, I can do just about anything. As Archimedes said, "If you give me a lever and a fulcrum upon which to place it, I can move the world!"
Thanks... I also like "if you push something hard enough, it will fall over." But ya. It worked. Love it when a plan comes together.
People who can't take criticism are fools. Whether is it good or bad, a smart person can use both and learn from it and get better.
Looks like I'd better stop whining about our humid 85 degree weather here in Maine!
Normally it's pretty dry around here. But it hangs out around 100 or a bit lower during the summer.
you are a fky genious.. Buddy.. as usual.. stan
LOL thanks Stan.
Take pads out next time, much lighter, i could have installed that without help gherkin
I figured it would be in a stronger configuration with the pads in and that way I wouldn't take such a chance of tweeking all the spot welded joints on the thing. I did take the pads out when I changed out the one on the house though and you are right. MUCH lighter LOL... Where were you when I did that one? Check out this video of me getting rid of the one on the house. ruclips.net/video/PT8jqmqm_0I/видео.html
100-84=16 not 26
You're right. Kinda hard to think when you've worked in 100 degrees all day. And of course, I make mistakes so you don't have to....
Thank you
thanks but 100 -26 is not 84 😂😂😂😂
I know and I said that in the description but no one ever takes the time to read that. When filming we make mistakes because we are thinking mostly about the shot and what we say.
Sweet.
Damn you good
badass