Oh where to start, the name came to Dan And I one evening on a jobsite in Connecticut.
Emily is my wife's initials MLE ( she is the one that let me have the money for our project so I had better put her name on it)
Ollie, she is our road warrior, those of you who have met her know full well that like any female, she is possessive, opinionated and simply wants things her way!
Magic, Oh well, I think enough said on the subject
Liberty, it's all about promoting the true Liberty of burning wood to heat your spaces
EOMLB started out as a 2014 International 31 foot Handicapped School Bus from the Baltimore county School district, it sports a 7.3 litre Diesel engine and a 5 speed Allison automatic transmission, air ride on the rear axle, capable of 27,500 pound gross vehicle weight, air over juice brakes, all 4 wheels are disc.
I found her on the internet, flew to Baltimore and drove her home that evening without a singl issue!
We realized this past spring that my service trailer was in need of replacement when we did a brake job and found 5 major cracks in the frame, I looked around and replacement cost would have been over $10,000
After giving it some thought, we realized one of my biggest issues in installs was that we almost always had to make 2 trips, one to deliver the boiler and the second for the service trailer, EOMLB solved that issue by making camping quarters in the front of her and shop/ parts storage in the back, we then built our own version of a brindle that accommodates a full roll of Logstor on a big Lazy Susan and behind it a trolley type crane with an 8 foot I beam, the winch is an 8000 pound single pull doubled with a home made pulley.
This now enables us to show up at the customers jobsite with the pipe, boiler, parts and camper all at once!
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