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J12Engineering



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Bowbearer wrote:
Looking at the Drive lodge it seems a bit narrower than other Roof Opening tents.

On my 110 I have a Safety Devises Cage, external front, internal rear as per Camel 100s.

Dismissed the opening roof as I thought it wouldn't fit.

Do you think it is narrow enough to accommodate the cage? What width length is it?

Would solve many problems.

Thanks,


That is the configuration I intend to use in a 110 Overland I have in build at present.

There are many variants of SD roll cage. Are your external bars as low as this SD front external cage? If so yes the roof will fit externally.

You may have to clamber around your internal cage though, and dependent upon how tight to the roof internally the rear cage is, potential exists for the internal pop top frame to be impinged by the cage. That said, its all straight forward to adapt between the 2 structures to achieve both occupant protection by the cage, and rigidity in the roof to support the pop top.

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8619simon



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camelman wrote:
I've had the drop down bed fitted in the drivelodge. It's on seperate gas struts and the whole bed folds up.into the roof when not in use


When folded down, it gives the full length of the roof as bed space

We can sleep 4+ dog, 2 up and 2 down


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With the fold down bed in the Drivelodge can you store bedding on it when the roof is down and or when the bed is up?
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I can leave a double mattress and sleeping bag in when its all fastened up / stowed. Not much more than that though. Its about the same as I could leave in my hard shell roof tent 
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8619simon



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Is the roof itself fairly stiff, could it take some cargo rails for example so a light box or solar panel could be fitted?
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camelman



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Not sure about cargo rails but will defo take solar panels as that is one of the options I was looking at.

To be fair one of the reasons I went with this set up was to keep weight off the roof and also lower the overall weight and centre of gravity.

Having done lots of expedition work, I don’t like having weight up high. 
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camelman



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Slept in mine for a week now Laughing

Was a bit fresh last night...


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