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RE: Where are you going?
No desert for us this year.
hopefully one of your guests will bring some pumpkin pie for you! :)
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NatParkJunkie
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11/23/22 07:59pm |
Toy Haulers
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RE: Truck Camper Adventure Rally
I'll be there!
at least as long as we can still buy diesel by then anyways.
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NatParkJunkie
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11/14/22 07:20pm |
Truck Campers
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RE: Guide for Narrowing Bigfoot Cabovers?
so first of all, completely agree with previous poster.
Checking out the specs for a current bigfoot truck camper says that they weigh between 2061-2245 lbs dry weight. And a current model year toyota tundra has a payload capacity of 1,575 to 1,940 lbs. So a current model truck camper would be 500-700 lbs over the max payload for a toyota, before adding any water, clothes, food, gear, etc.
A better solution would be a lightweight soft side popup truck camper like a Palomino. Those will weigh more in the 1500 lbs range.
But to answer OP question, I found the page on the way back machine web archiver
https://web.archive.org/web/20070407121302/http://duedall.fit.edu/yellow/gerry_chilibeck.htm
Truck camper magazine has some good advice on matching a truck and camper together.
https://www.truckcampermagazine.com/newbie-articles/match-truck-truck-camper/
In the details on that link, the guy also said he upgraded his F250 truck to a F350 to handle the camper better.
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NatParkJunkie
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11/09/22 08:09pm |
Truck Campers
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RE: Happijac remote plug
what does the back of it look like?
its probably a standard phone jack outlet (probably with some different order to the wires to make it cost more). If you can even still buy a phone outlet jack???
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NatParkJunkie
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10/08/22 08:05pm |
Truck Campers
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RE: Refill small propane cylinder
you can refill the green bottles too.
I refill my 30lbs tanks, and then use this adapter to refill my little green tanks from the big tank.
link
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NatParkJunkie
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10/08/22 08:02pm |
Tech Issues
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RE: Wabash & Erie Canal Park
never been there but it looks kinda cool.
if you call or email them, they might have better info for you.
link
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NatParkJunkie
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09/03/22 10:21pm |
RV Parks, Campgrounds and Attractions
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RE: dinghy towing question
thanks for all the advice! I think that may be the answer. I wasn't paying too close attention to when the pins were sliding, but I'm pretty sure that it was happening when I inserted them from the outside towards the center.
I switched to that direction because it was a little easier to get it started in the holes to get everything lined up.
Next time I tow next week, I'll try to go from the center out and see if that solves it for me. That makes sense, because that is the direction that the pins shifted towards the outside.
thanks all! that was a quick and easy answer.
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NatParkJunkie
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06/20/22 09:57pm |
Dinghy Towing
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dinghy towing question
Hello
I got a jeep this year to tow behind my camper. So far loving the added flexibility it gives me!
After driving to my destination, when I go to unhook, I've been noticing that my pin between the tow bar and the jeep frequently floats around. The pin has frequently slid all the way out so that the safety hitch pin is all the way against the side of the clevis bracket. Is this normal?
I'm slightly concerned about the safety pin failing or breaking some day and the bar with the red handle falling out. (have safety cables attached, but definitely don't want to need to use them...)
Setup using ReadyBrute/Ready Brake tow bar, and maximus 3 tow loops on the jeep side.
https://i.imgur.com/Zv2vi3El.jpg
https://i.imgur.com/rPJQ8ZZl.jpg
https://i.imgur.com/SrXi4zzl.jpg
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NatParkJunkie
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06/20/22 03:32pm |
Dinghy Towing
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RE: Jack Failure Disaster
sorry to hear about your disaster! sounds like a combination of problems. I'm glad you spotted it and got yourself out of the way so it didn't land on you!
if you're moving the legs manually with a drill, 2" at a time with one leg seems like too much of a lift to me. I have 4 corner electric jacks with a remote. When I'm going down, one of my back legs lowers faster than the other 3. As soon as that leg barely lifts off the ground, you can hear the other 3 motors straining more, and the whole thing feels much less stable. I stop right away then, and raise or lower one leg at a time to get the camper back in balance and supporting the load right before continuing down further.
Were you rough guessing the amount of drop on each leg, or measuring it? Maybe it would be better to go slower and count each revolution? like Like lower each jack 5 revolutions, then 5 revolutions on the next jack? always lower back legs then front legs so the back is lower than the front.
I wonder if you ended up with one of the legs a lot higher than you thought the other 3 were, so the whole camper started pivoting around that high point?
I had a similarish- thing happen recently as well. I was down in Florida, and I tried to take the camper off the truck for a few days in a county park. The ground was hard packed dirt/sand. It felt solid enough to me, and I added some wooden blocks to spread out the load on the feet as well.
The camper lifted just fine. While I was lowering the camper, the jack legs kept binding about half way down. I lifted and lowered the camper several times, changed the angle, put it back on the truck and tried again, but kept getting bound up about half way down.
I ended up putting the camper back on the truck, and left it on the truck for the rest of the trip instead.
I think that the ground was soft enough that the camper was settling into the ground a bit at different rates while I was trying to lower it, which got the legs bound up. After reading your story, I'm glad I bailed, and didn't try to force getting the camper off the truck on that trip.
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NatParkJunkie
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04/11/22 08:57pm |
Truck Campers
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RE: Campsite Lighting
my go to has been the LED tiki torch lights.
I found a couple old oil lanterns in my grandfathers garage last year. I took out the oil bits, took apart 2 tiki torches, and put the torch in the middle of the lanterns. Looks really cool, and I get tons of compliments on them, on the rare occasion I go to a campground instead of boondocking where it's really dark.
video
https://i.imgur.com/ZM1GxdTl.jpg
https://i.imgur.com/W7oIvsPl.jpg
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NatParkJunkie
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04/11/22 08:32pm |
Tent Camping
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RE: Towing fifth wheel from Moran to Colter Bay
google maps is real time mapping, so maybe there was an accident or the road was closed due to snow, etc at the time you plugged in the route so it recommended a route around that, and the road is open again now?
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NatParkJunkie
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04/09/22 11:18pm |
Roads and Routes
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