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RE: Excape routes for trailers.
The escape routes in most hybrids are the bunk ends.
This is a SAFETY HAZARD as your have NO ESCAPE ROUTE when camping TURTLED! :E
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Deus Ex Machina
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02/15/10 07:44am |
General RVing Issues
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RE: Grim Reaper Forum??
Quite often it is the "weight police" or the WD hitch/sway control advocates endeavoring to educate the rest of us as to what will happen if we don't do as they have been preaching at us we should do.
Even though they usually have NO IDEA what caused the accident, it MUST have been a sway issue or an overweight issue or a tire inflation issue (I almost forgot that one!)
I just don't read them anymore. They rarely happen in my state, anyway, and if one did happen here, I would probably see it in the local paper (like the guys who try to take campers under an overpass that is plainly marked 8 foot clearance!) before it was posted on the forums.
The same as every RV fire in the news also gets posted here, and of course it MUST have been caused by traveling with the fridge on! :E
:R
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Deus Ex Machina
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01/28/10 04:43am |
General RVing Issues
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RE: What's your plans for TV disaster?
Once again, folks, the hitch ball on the U-Haul truck is welded on with no way to attach another ball. Travel trailers have a 2 5/16" coupler. U-Haul couplers, and the ball on their trucks, are 2". YOU CANNOT TOW YOUR TRAVEL TRAILER WITH A U-HAUL TRUCK!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
U-Haul specifically dis-allows towing anything behind any of their trucks except one of their trailers. YOU CANNOT TOW YOUR TRAVEL TRAILER WITH A U-HAUL TRUCK!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
You sure about that? Absolutely positively 100% sure about that?
My trailer has a 2" coupler. So did the one I had before that. So do most smaller lightweight travel trailers and hybrids.
Now whether it is ALLOWED or not is a different story, but I most certainly COULD tow my trailer with a U-Haul truck.
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Deus Ex Machina
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01/27/10 07:00am |
Travel Trailers
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RE: Fresh fuel for the fire
Calm down guys;
Lets just say it's "plausible but highly unlikely" and turn it over to the
Myth Busters they would just love blowing up an RV plus a gas station.
So.. You never saw the episode were they trow a lit cigarette in a puddle of gas and.... pfttt, nothing
It's true, used to do that. Freaked people out.
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Deus Ex Machina
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01/16/10 06:51pm |
General RVing Issues
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RE: Fresh fuel for the fire
Now we're off and running!
I'm making popcorn. Who's bringing the beer?
:B
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Deus Ex Machina
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01/16/10 06:15pm |
General RVing Issues
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RE: Fresh fuel for the fire
There are those who are so afraid of everything in life, they are prisoners in their own homes (The sky is falling!).
There are others who are out BASE jumping every weekend (Adrenalin junkies).
Trailer Life decided to take the "The sky is falling!" approach to RV safety. Those of us who travel with are fridges on are hardly in the adredalin junky catagory though. I also don't turn off the heat, electric and water to my house when I got away for the weekend.
Aren't I the RISK TAKER! Really living on the edge here! :E
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Deus Ex Machina
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01/16/10 07:02am |
General RVing Issues
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RE: Level Rig when using heater
Yes, it must be absolutely level!!!!
Be sure to level the RV with the level placed on the FURNACE ITSELF as RVs are not always manufactured square. Make sure you do NOT run the fridge what running the furnace as the fridge may not have been installed exacty level with the furnace.
When you want to use the fridge, you must SHUT OFF the furnace and re-level the RV by placing the level in the FREEZER of the fridge. Do NOT run to furnace as it is no longer exactly level.
Now if you want to run the A/C, you want the RV slightly OUT of level so that the condensate will not pool on the roof. Climb on the roof and put the level on the A/C framework (You must remove the shroud for accuracy) and adjust the RV so it is 1/2 bubble out of level. It is imperative that you NEVER run the fridge or the furnace while running the A/C as both these unit are now out of level.
Now, you could spend a few hours shimming your fridge, furnace, A/C, water heater, etc into perfect level (or tilt for the A/C) with each other, or you could accept the fact that all the above is totally meaningless and that as long as your RV is "comfortably level" (as stated by the appliance manufacturers), you are within the safe zone.
(DISCLAIMER: The above is all tongue-in-cheek, and dedicated to those who waste a valuable camping time leveling thier fridge to the nearest 1/10th of a degree on all three axis. )
:B :B :B <--- smilies means humor...
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Deus Ex Machina
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01/15/10 08:04am |
Tech Issues
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RE: Life's little jokes.
Smoke and CO alarms have a FINITE lifetime after which they may or may not be effective at SAVING YOUR LIFE.
Almost all of them are now programmed to complain LOUDLY at the end of the life span in order to FORCE you to replace them. This is to protect YOU, not a conspiracy to put more cash in their pockets.
The OP did exactly the correct thing by replacing them as they were past their usefull life.
Trying to extract extra time out of expired safety devices is just plain stupid. Must be a LOT of stupid people out there which is why the manufacturers had to put end-of-life alarms in their divices! :E
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Deus Ex Machina
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01/15/10 07:44am |
Tech Issues
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RE: Hybrids and Wind (Desert Camping)
....Also, I guess I could fold them up during the day and just open them up at night for sleeping. Are my fears legitimate or should I not worry???? Thanks for the help.
We had a Tahoe Lite for several years, and it survived several 40-50mph winds. We got REAL good at breaking down the tent ends, and going "turtle" when the wind got above 20mph. While nothing ever broke or tore (except the awning that blew off one afternoon...) I'd rather fold everything up for the day while you're not around (better security also).
If that were trully necessary, I think hybrid sales would plummet to zero. Camping must be an exhausting ordeal for you if you turtle every time the wind goes over 20 mph. Yoiu're gonna wear out your bunk ends faster that way then just leaving them open to the wind.
Think of it this way, the soft top on my old Jeep Wrangler was basically like a bunk end. It had no problem surviving the 70 plus MPH commute to work every day including in very radical cross winds. And no, the support structure on the Jeep was NOT built heavier than a bunk end.
Your hybril or PUP will NOT be hurt by winds up to around 40 or 45 mph with gusts somewhat higher. Know that from experience as do many others. Now winds ABOVE that, I would consider turtling, but most likely I'd just stay home as it's not even safe to tow in winds that high. :E
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Deus Ex Machina
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01/15/10 07:32am |
Hybrid Travel Trailers
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RE: A tear came to my eye in Walmart today...
I can't stand it that store are getting farther and farther ahead of the seasons. You need to plan all your sseasonal shopping two seasons in advance now.
Here we are only one month into Winter, yet if I decided I needed some more flannel shirts and long-johns to get me through till spring, I would find them all removed to make room for the spring fashions that are now being put on the shelves.
It's really absurd... :R
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Deus Ex Machina
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01/15/10 07:11am |
General RVing Issues
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RE: A tear came to my eye in Walmart today...
I went there to pick up a few necessities, shivering as I walked from my truck to the store. I walked in and decided to check out the clearance isle and low and behold I saw it!
Garden tools, seeds, plants, potting soil all being put on display! This reassured me that spring would soon be here and I could de-winterize the camper and hit the campgrounds. I still have a smile on my face.
.I didn't know that China packaged and sold seed.
It's a special hybrid varity that contains lead. :E
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Deus Ex Machina
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01/15/10 07:04am |
General RVing Issues
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RE: FINALLY! Easy way to stop folks cutting through your site!
I will never understand the big deal made by some about someone cutting through! I see this as a chance to say hi to a fellow camper.
But you are making that choice yourself.
If your choice is to invite every passerby into your campsite, it doesn't obligate the rest of us to do it.
If I ivite you into my campsite, you are a visitor.
If you take it upon youreslf to cut through my campsite, you are a trespasser.
The CHOICE lies with the HOLDER of the CAMPSITE, no one else.
So the fact that YOU don't mind having strangers cut through YOUR campsite has absolutely nothing to do with MY wishes for MY campsite. Nor does it make it okay you you to cut through mine.
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Deus Ex Machina
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01/15/10 06:58am |
General RVing Issues
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RE: Turn signals turned on just as vehicle is turning
Are the other drivers still using turn signals in California? It seems like many don't think about them anymore.
And I have seen that when aproaching a exit, and about 300 feet to go, if you turn on your turn signal, the cars behind you speed up, to close the gap, so you can not get into the right hand lane.
Some drivers are idiots.
Good Luck,
Fred.
Yup, this is the norm on New Jersey highways also. You signal to do a lane change, and some idiot speed up to keep you from doing so.
So I admit that on multilane highways, I am one of those last minute signallers due to the above problem (seriously, it is REALLY bad here). But when it comes to making turns at intersections and such, I always signal well in advance.
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Deus Ex Machina
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01/10/10 07:47am |
General RVing Issues
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RE: Where to place level
Fridge, fridge, fridge!
Total nonsense!
Quality of RVs are bad, but not SO bad that you must level from the fridge! :R
Level it from the floor, the back bumper, the roof, whatever, and you will be WELL within safe tolerances for the fridge.
ALL the fridge manufacturers say that if the RV feels "comfortably level", then it is fine for the fridge. That translates to 6 degrees front to back, and 3 degress side to side. If your fridge was THAT out of level compared to the rest of your RV, it would look like a FUNHOUSE!
Don't waste time nit picking about where to level, you are just taking time away from sitting in front of the campfire DRINKING BEER! :B
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Deus Ex Machina
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01/08/10 09:29pm |
Hybrid Travel Trailers
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RE: generator to rent
Yep, the standard knee jerk noisy generator response. I successfully resisted it earlier this morning -- but it was hard! ;)
I know there are sources in my locality to rent Honda EU-type quiet gensets, but never priced them.
-- Chuck
Um, I though I was giving advise to someone who might not know better. Not everyone know about quiet generators vs noisy ones.
Sorry you consider it the "standard knee jerk noisy generator response". :W <-- winky right back at ya. :B
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Deus Ex Machina
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01/08/10 09:07pm |
Hybrid Travel Trailers
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RE: generator to rent
If you are looking to rent a generator to use in a campground, keep in mind that most generator rentals are the very loud contractor type, and have NO PLACE in the campground.
You would be contending with a mob of people with torches and pitchforks if you tried to run one of them. You need to try to find a place that rents a quiet inverter model suited for camping.
Of course, if you are going to be parking your RV on a construction site, knock yourself out. Get the cheapest, loudest one you can find. :B
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Deus Ex Machina
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01/07/10 05:15am |
Hybrid Travel Trailers
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RE: Distilled water ??
Can you just put 2% milk in your radiator instead?
Now that's just "udder" nonsense!
:B :B :B
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Deus Ex Machina
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01/07/10 05:08am |
Tech Issues
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RE: Another AT&T Storey
The gal that worked at the kiosk where I bought this, said the I-phones aren't very good.
:E :E :E :E :E
How do you tell when a sales girl is lying? Her lips are moving!
You can have my iPhone when you pry it from my cold dead fingers!
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Deus Ex Machina
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01/06/10 08:22pm |
Technology Corner
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RE: Interesting rust removal process
Didn't I hear somewhere that Bounce Dryer sheets will remove rust?
:B :B :B
Ya know, come to think of it, I haven't seen a Bounce dryer sheet thread on this forum in a LONG time. Maybe all those myths have finally died?
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Deus Ex Machina
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01/06/10 05:01pm |
General RVing Issues
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RE: Another AT&T Storey
There are many places in the country where Verizon has no coverage. Other places wher T-Mobile or Sprint has no coverage.
You can't condemn an entire cellular network just becuase there is no coverage on your block.
I originally chose Cingular (now AT&T) becuase it delivered 5 bars in my home vs only 2 bars from Verizon. Sprint customers in my neighborhood had to walk out into the parking lot to make a call. People I know two towns over have the exact opposite problem in their neighborhood and have to go with Verizon.
When I was house hunting a few months ago, I stood in front of each potential house, took out my phone and checked how many bars I had. I also checked for line-of-sight for my DirecTV dish. You can't go and say that DirecTV sucks as a company if you go and buy a house deep in the woods and can't get your dish to pick up a signal.
RESEARCH before you buy!
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Deus Ex Machina
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01/06/10 04:57pm |
Technology Corner
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