Cheers,
Nicole & Elmer

We’ve been stumbling around the internet and found your blog along the way.

We love your work! What a great corner of the internet 🙂

Actually, the designer of our subframe does not build them anymore. But any good welder WITH EXPERTISE should be able to reproduce ours.
If you like to know more about the different subframe possibilities, we would highly recommend the book “Build your own overland camper” by Steve Wigglesworth. We are currently reviewing this book and he spends a whole chapter on dealing with torsial stress and different subframes.

These Zeppelin FMII are designed to be transported on trucks with one container lock on each corner. Not directly flat on a truck bed. So the inner frame of a Zeppelin box is designed to spread the “stress” from each corner via the whole frame. (The military even threw them out of airplanes!).

Losenj…. We still have fond memories of that little gem! So tranquil..
Believe it or not, there is still a little boat running to the other Island. You just need to call him on his cell.

Take care

Elmer & Nicole

Please could you direct me to the designer/builder of your subframe?
As the box is only attached at the four corners, this must place different (perhaps more?) stresses to the more usual situation where there is an attachment of the subframe to the box at many evenly spaced places on the box floor. Also, in their usual designed use these Zeppelin radio boxes have the overall support of the truck load bed, I believe.
I would very much appreciate your views.
I last visited Losenj, Croatia (at that time Yugoslavia) over forty years ago. There was a small open ferry that went from there to Illovic, an outlying island. Most of the men had gone to find work in America and sent money home. Different times, similar issues.
Best wishes,
Elliot

Thank you for the nice reply and glad to hear you like most of our posts. We had a Special Subframe made for us. The cargo bed, that was originally on the Steyr, has no articulation and was fixed to the main frame. Our subframe is fixed at the front and has a pivot at the back, where most of the articulation will happen.

Good luck and fun with your Mog! And should any more questions come up during your build, feel free to ask!

Take care

Elmer & Nicole