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Mobile Tiki Bar For Twenty.
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Bwana Tiki
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Sun, Mar 14, 2004 10:51 PM
So a funny thing happened today. I’d been daydreaming about building a mobile Tiki bar from a pop top trailer camper thing or what ever right minded people call them. I was at a friends house for lunch talking about it, explaining the problems of a soaring peaked roof that would fold down, tarp up and be roadworthy, (we are both landscape architects, well he is I’m close, anyway we are both well trained designers). Anyway we decided to call a friend , Scruffy, and ask about his trailer, and low and behold he said he was buying a new one and I could have the old one if I wanted it. So… now I have a solid base. The inside is trashed but the “works” are in fine shape. I’ll start the designs this week and expect to get the trailer in the next few weeks. I really hope that this project works out as I would love to have a Tiki bar that I could bring all over So Cal and share with the TC faithful, “beach party anyone”, “J Tree lost weekends”, whatever. In any event I’ll most likely be sniffing around about stuff to outfit it with as I want to go way over the top with this. My target is to accommodate 20 people plus a bartender, within the bounds of the unfolded origami bar and lanai, (the thing slides apart like a puzzle box). Wish me luck as I’m gonna need it. It’s a big project and I’m still not certain I can pull it off, but hey, may as well dream big, so keep your chisels sharp, and the bamboo and such flowing, I’ll start breakin open my piggy banks and keep my fingers crossed. Any ideas on where to use the thing, it departs from Fullerton CA. |
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Sun, Mar 14, 2004 10:55 PM
Document the whole project with pictures please! |
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tikitony
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Mon, Mar 15, 2004 12:41 AM
sOunds very cuel! Bamboo ben mentioned a traveling tiki bar, but made out of a teardrop trailor. I've been working on a kind of traveling A frame hut for quick set up for tiki shows. I'll post pictures of the design, maybe it might relate to your project as well. Mines set up on a 4x8 utility trailor, used for haulinig my palm trunks around. I'm hoping to debut this at Oasis, but we'll see. I have a few animatronic ideas, but they may stay ideas. GOod luck, and document the process! and don't throw out the shag carpet. ha |
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Biotron2000
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Mon, Mar 15, 2004 7:07 PM
A roof design popped into my head: Or something like that... Patrick McNeal, [ Edited by: Biotron2000 on 2004-03-15 19:08 ] [ Edited by: Biotron2000 on 2004-03-15 19:08 ] |
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Bwana Tiki
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Tue, Mar 16, 2004 12:00 AM
TCers ROAD TRIP!!!!! |
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Wed, Mar 17, 2004 11:10 AM
I tried to think of a foldable version of the Waikikian's A-frame lobby: What exactly do you mean by "I need to keep bamboo “aloft” to a minimum?" I was thinking a cargo netting A-frame covered with canvas or burlap "Palm Fronds" & Bamboo or PCV-boo supports (Instructions on how to make fake PVC Bamboo can be found here). You can get cargo/fish netting in sizes large enough to cover a semi truck from surplus companies like Major's in Gardena. Sew a canvas strip around the edge & another diagonally across from corner to corner to keep tie-downs from tearing the netting. Cut palmetto shaped "fronds" from the canvas/burlap & die varying shades of green/tan/brown with RIT, sew on tie-downs (4-6 inch strips of canvas, died to match it's frond or the netting). Attach the canvas/burlap "palm fronds" to the netting, "up" is the canvas diagonal, "down" the corners furthest from there. Attach bamboo/PVC-boo to all edges & 2 to the center with gardening twine (tie the boo to the canvas with twine or canvas tie-downs, cover the tie-downs with gardening twine lashings), the 2 attached to the center should be the same length as the sides & only be attached 1/3 of their length from the corner toward the center. Bolt & lash the "down" corners (the 2 away from the center diagonal) together @ a 60 degree angle (I think you should drill through both pieces of boo & thread a bolt through for strength, but I'm not certain how to keep the boo from cracking from the strain of repeated twisting, maybe a grommit? The bolt should then be covered with the lashing) using small diameter Manilla rope. Do the same with the "up" corners. position the 2 boo pieces attached to the diagonal so 1 end can be bolted & lashed to the "up" corner & the other ends can be bolted & lashed to each other, do the center then the outside (sorry, but my Solid G is too rusty to figure the angles, but it should work out to aproximately 120 degrees in the center). Tie a good lenghth od strong manilla to each "up" corner, stake down the "down" corners & the manilla attached to the "up" corners (it should reach out @ aproximately 30 degrees from a vertical line from the ground to the "up" corner). Cover the inside with reed fencing & you're up! You can tweak the design to make it from a "down" corner to the 4 corners of the bar, with another short A-frame coming off each side to cover the booths, or however you want. This's just a rough idea, use it or not, but I'm going to keep it in my own head as a patio cover. Rev. Dr. Frederick J. Freelance, Ph.D., D.F.S [ Edited by: freddiefreelance on 2004-03-17 11:11 ] [ Edited by: freddiefreelance on 2004-03-17 11:18 ] [ Edited by: freddiefreelance on 2004-03-17 11:19 ] |
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Bwana Tiki
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Wed, Mar 17, 2004 9:29 PM
WOW, Just how many people live in this piano anyway, |
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Wed, Mar 17, 2004 10:11 PM
Bwana, let's take it to Burning Man Festival. Perfect fit. |
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Bwana Tiki
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Wed, Mar 17, 2004 10:48 PM
never been to burning man, hmmm.... if we go we'll need a post hast pond w/ solar powered waterfall for out front don't ya think. I don't think burning man is my scene really but who knows. must build MTB. Have Tiki Bar will travel, |
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Wed, Mar 17, 2004 11:13 PM
You 2 would be perfect TC reps at Burning Man!!! |
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Tiki-bot
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Thu, Mar 18, 2004 1:27 PM
I attended Burning Man in '00, '01, & '02 and had some of the greatest experiences of my life there. The last year I found a mobile tiki bar built on a small trailer that was pulled around by a tractor. It had a nicely thatched roof with a built-in misting system in the roofing framework - very slick. It held about 15 people. They just cruised around, "no worries", and picked up and dropped people wherever. There was also a large water tank on the tractor to hose people down - an extra bonus in the 110 degree heat. Had nice music, too, as I recall. Even had bike racks on the sides to hang your bike while you kicked back to enjoy some complimentary rum punch. I got an email from someone in SF who's doing some kind of elaborate tiki bar this year, but don't know who it is or any details. Is it TC ohana? |
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Bwana Tiki
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Fri, Mar 26, 2004 7:51 PM
Just a quick update: |
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Tiki Diablo
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Sat, Mar 27, 2004 9:02 AM
I would suggest you mock it up with some cardboard or chalk it out on the ground. Ive welded up a few things in my day and some of y'all have seen my off-road tiki trailer I haul to Oasis every year behind my landcuiser. I was trying to make time to fabricate a new TEARDROP tiki trailer last year for oasis III but ya know how that goes. Now that I have an old ford truck I wil have to make it. Oh yeah mock up the folding top with stiff paper,tape and straws or something, I usually make a scale model to check visual proportions and function. Good luck! |
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Bwana Tiki
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Sat, Mar 27, 2004 1:06 PM
Thanks for the advice, Oh I got a brand new pair of rollerskates…. |
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Tiki Diablo
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Sat, Mar 27, 2004 5:05 PM
Yeah baby, rollerskates, matching terrycloth wristbands, headband and some Dove shorts! One of them tuxedo t-shirts and those big radio antenna headphones! Oh........ I have to go to the store now! Oh yeah, don't forget to keep the weight towards the front or she is gonna sway like Princess Pupule's grass skirt. Mine has no sway 80mph. |
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Bwana Tiki
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Sat, Mar 27, 2004 5:41 PM
THE BEAST HAS LANDED! Bwana Tiki [ Edited by: Bwana Tiki on 2004-03-27 17:41 ] |
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Johnny Dollar
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Mon, Mar 29, 2004 12:21 PM
you go bruddah! |
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Bike Shack
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Mon, Sep 20, 2004 11:06 AM
Did you ever get this going ? |
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Thu, Nov 18, 2004 11:50 AM
Mr. Bwana Tiki, please note the dates above, according to my abacus it has been approximately 7 months since you started the so-called "mobile tiki bar" project, and 2 months since Mr. Bike Shack questioned its progress...what gives? Did it turn out so good that you can't bring yourself to share it with the rest of us for fear of plagiarization? Or was it a miserable failure that you are ashamed of? We gots to know. Fear not...update the masses. |
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timetotiki
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Tue, Mar 17, 2009 7:54 PM
Just wanted to get in on the conversation, since my buddy had a mobile tiki bar designed and built. The bar will soon be in production. I'll start selling this unit in about 2 weeks. We're shooting the demo video for the website next week with 2 hot models, so as soon as everything is up and running, I'll post it on here. Our first trip out west will be the Buffet concert in Las Vegas in October. Cheers, [ Edited by: timetotiki 2009-03-31 08:30 ] |
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Tiki Trav
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Tue, Mar 17, 2009 9:20 PM
should be "interesting".... |
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Heath
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Tue, Mar 17, 2009 9:40 PM
Which buffet will it be? |
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timetotiki
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Sun, Apr 5, 2009 8:48 PM
It has arrived...................The hottest new mobile tiki bar is on the market. Please go to the following link, Click on towable tiki bars Enjoy, |
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