Bigfeet at Bigfoot

Monday, June 27, 2011

We left the campground and drove back north on Route 97A through Vernon, and arrived at Bigfoot RV in Armstrong at 7:30 am, all according to plan.

The people at Bigfoot were ready for us and we had our caves in the shop in just a few minutes. We offloaded Barney and Betty’s cave from the Rubble-mobile so we could do some running around while Bigfoot worked on both Bigfeet.

Both rolling caves inside the Bigfoot facility

Working on Fred and Wilma's cave.

Working on Barney and Betty's cave.

We went to Walmart and the Canadian Tire store in Vernon with a breakfast stop thrown in for good measure.

We got back to Bigfoot about 1:00 and found they were not finished. Fred had prearranged a tour of the plant for us. We were taken through their production facility by a 25 year veteran named Rob. He was very knowledgable and gave us a good tour of the molding facility. We were able to see a headliner being installed in the upper section of a camper, and saw the various stages of four units being assembled.

Barney and Fred looking into a new
Bigfoot camper during the tour.

The headliner is going in.

Adding cabinets

This hole is for the back door.

Bigfoot, like all RV manufacturers, was hit hard by the recession. They were building 10 units a week before it hit. For a little while they had to close the doors. Now they are back up to three units a week with 10 employees.

They got the caves finished and set to go just after 4pm.  We headed south again on Route 97A and spent the night in Okanagan Lake Provencial Park between Kelowna and Penticton.

More later.