REAL MAN TRUCKWORKS & SURVIVAL
VEHICLES, CAMPERS, and BOATS => Everything Trailer, Camper, or RV related => Topic started by: Flyin6 on December 08, 2015, 01:25:26 PM
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I've been owning this camper and playing with it for a couple-few years now, so I'm about to dedicate it to my hide site and prep it up for the deep freeze
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So, lesson #1: When you live in a hot/cold climate then do not keep any coke cans in the frig
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So today ended up being a clean up and get things workin' day
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Sorting through things, fixing that cleaning this
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Getting it sorted and cleaned...
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Looking OK!
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I'm adding bits here and there. Weapons rack, tools, storage, filters, you name it.
I want to get those LED bulbs to replace the myriad of incandescent bulbs...who sells those?
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So, lesson #1: When you live in a hot/cold climate then do not keep any coke cans in the frig
I could've told you that. ;D
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So, lesson #1: When you live in a hot/cold climate then do not keep any coke cans in the frig
I could've told you that. ;D
Yea?...Well you didn't
Say, when are you gonna marry one of my daughters?
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Yea?...Well you didn't
Say, when are you gonna marry one of my daughters?
When have pilots ever listened to Grunts?
Geographical impossibility. Unless I recently won the lottery and I'm not currently aware of such a momentous occasion.
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I got all the bulbs from Amazonia.
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I retro'd our whole camper with the led pancake bulbs... got em from Amazon
http://www.amazon.com/GRV-24-3528-Super-Bright-White/dp/B00EKN8FXC/ref=sr_1_4?ie=UTF8&qid=1449610426&sr=8-4&keywords=led+rv+bulbs
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For storage, I'd keep nothing edible in the trailer......vermin will be drawn to it and establish residency and then want citizenship and voting rights on the Realman BOD. Sealed bottles of select distillery products are safe.....just saying! I leave ant baits in mine as I've seen carpenter and the little red ones appear on trips, inside. With a compressor, I'd drain H2O system and blow out your lines, pull heater plug and drain bypass line. I also remove low water point drains to blow-out lines completely. Don't forget to remove and drain line filters if you have them. RV Anti-freeze the drain p-traps, I don't do water lines anymore after blowing out lines- easier to put into service in spring.
Leave fridge and freeze doors open for storage, especially after Coke eruption - you'll grow mold otherwise, no matter how clean you think you got it! I also crack roof vents a little so it breaths.
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Have you really had it that long now?
We don't freeze here so that is a plus. I do keep lots of food in mine, but all factory sealed, cans and 5 gallon cans.
I also throw flea collars in the fridge area thats keeps all the little buggies out, no nests or spiders.
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Lotza stuff
Flee colars
Leave doors open
Crack the roof vent
Find someone else to marry daughters
Got lots of tips for sure.
But
I plan to keep it fired up all winter! Yup going down there like all the time so I'll hook up a 1000 gal tank of the P-Pane and let er rip!
Gotta have a place to crash...
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I went with M4 Products. More money but very well built and better voltage range 10-30v, so if you have solar charging at 14.5v - 14.8 volts won't hurt the bulbs. We spent a week at Glacier Nat. Park just on solar and LED lights, ran the C-Pap at night no problems.
http://www.m4products.com/
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What's linear ft. on that beast?
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What's linear ft. on that beast?
A bit over 35 feet me thinks
No fun to pull, I'll tell ya that
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What's linear ft. on that beast?
A bit over 35 feet me thinks
No fun to pull, I'll tell ya that
I would venture to guess that you have not pulled much length wise or else you may have something connected incorrectly?
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What weight distribution and anti-sway system are you using?
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He's a pilut. He lives for the sway...
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My friend has an Anderson system and I have been looking into them.
http://www.andersenhitches.com/catalog/andersen-nosway-weight-distribution-hitch.aspx
A few more $$$ but I like the looks of it.
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What weight distribution and anti-sway system are you using?
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One that doesn't work very well!
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My new trailer is a bit over 37 ft long with about 1500 lbs of tongue weight loaded for travel, and tows as nice as any I have owned. You have more than enough truck, maybe rear tires of the truck need more air pressure. You said once you needed to get the hitch set up right, did that happen? Any of the good WD setups with sway control should do a good job for you. Have you scaled the set up to see where the weight actually is and if you have returned enough weight to the front end of the truck.
Bob, I'm only going to tow it one more time
Down to the farm, put it under a roof, and there she stays!
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It's not the camper, must be trying to pull it with SQ D?!? :o
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My new trailer is a bit over 37 ft long with about 1500 lbs of tongue weight loaded for travel, and tows as nice as any I have owned. You have more than enough truck, maybe rear tires of the truck need more air pressure. You said once you needed to get the hitch set up right, did that happen? Any of the good WD setups with sway control should do a good job for you. Have you scaled the set up to see where the weight actually is and if you have returned enough weight to the front end of the truck.
Bob, I'm only going to tow it one more time
Down to the farm, put it under a roof, and there she stays!
Have you considered selling it and putting a mobile/modular home in instead? Would last longer with less maintenance and more comfort. Loss of potential mobility being the trade off.
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I think Don likes his gadget trailer.
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Not going to sell it. Will just hold onto it. Later this summer I plan to put up a pole barn style roof over it with open sides, to protect against the rain and sunlight. It should remain useful for a couple decades I would think. Be a nice guest house when I get the cabin finally up.