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RE: High Winds?
Anytime I have been in or to heavily storm damaged areas there are any number of unexplainable things that happen… like one mobile home completely undamaged and all the ones around it destroyed… or a condemned unstable and leaning house leaning the opposite direction after a direct hit from a tornado but still standing, and the house(s) beside it leveled…
weather events have a way of leaving us in awe pretty often…
Here's one that's really unexplainable. Somebody was living right!
http://i60.photobucket.com/albums/h40/GShipe/last-house-standing_zps132095d1.jpg
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HappyTrails2U2
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03/21/13 10:23am |
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RE: High Winds?
We were having 49 mph gust of wind here in Augusta, GA just before 10:00 PM tonight. We're parked East to West so it didn't shake us very much at all since the storm was coming out of the West.
Compared to the storms we weathered in Mississippi the past two years, in a campground just across the reservoir from Jackson, this little blow tonight was not much more than a spring breeze. There were more than a couple of occasions in MS where we had to make a run for it in the middle of the night as the wind was rocking the trailer up on two wheels. It was the darnedest place we've ever stayed at. It never rained vertically it was always horizontal with howling high winds with bolts of lightning and thunder! My wife and I were ready to call it quits the first week in MS as we got hit by 3 of those monster thunder storms in a row that week!
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HappyTrails2U2
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03/18/13 10:46pm |
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RE: Black water chemicals
It's a holding tank not a septic tank so you don't need to add anything to it. If you have odor problems then you have a leak. I live in my travel trailer out of town 3 nights a week and I don't use anything for the tank other than water and I've never had any odors either unless I forget and flush while the vent fan is running.
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HappyTrails2U2
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02/23/13 05:11pm |
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RE: Toaster Oven Recommendations?
You can find new toaster ovens at just about any flea market cheaper than you can at Walmart. I just bought a new Hamilton Beach toaster oven for my office for $20 bucks that I found at a flea market in McDonough, GA a couple of weeks ago. The guy was asking $30 for it but he took $20. They won't bargain with you at Walmart. :)
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HappyTrails2U2
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02/11/13 08:23am |
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RE: If you've got 3 or more kids...
...the three kids have to sit next to each other on the trip (and shove and fight!).
We found the easiest solution was to just leave a couple of the kids in the gas station and take off without them. Cuts down on fights and gives a lot more room in the truck. The down side is they tend to find their way back home.
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HappyTrails2U2
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02/11/13 08:04am |
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RE: getting in the bathroom with slide in .
Do you have to manually crank your slide out? If not how hard can it be?
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HappyTrails2U2
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02/11/13 07:57am |
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RE: Towing
You've really added no value to this thread. At least explain why a diesel isn't appropriate for full time pulling for 2 years.
How about you explaining why someone like you keeps giving bad advice to people to buy more truck than they really need? Not everyone needs a hulking fuel guzzling monster to tow a pop up with but if you listen to a lot of the monster truckers here they'll give everyone that bad piece of advice. If I had listen to it when I was new I'd be driving one of those fuel guzzlers that are nothing but a waste for towing a regular travel trailer. If you're towing a huge 5th wheel yeah there's a need for them but not in the majority of cases with a normal travel trailer.
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HappyTrails2U2
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01/27/13 07:16pm |
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RE: RV Door Cracked
forest River? good luck with them.
This comment does not reflect most problems that I have read on this forum ! On the Forest River forum (on which I am a member) I have read time and again where they have fixed things long past warranty !
I agree. I'm a member on that forum also and they seem to be a great company and have been great to deal with in my experience. I've never had to call them about a major problem with my trailer because I've never had a problem with anything but a bathroom shower knob after 3 years and well over 1,000 showers in it and then everyone I talked to was friendly and more than willing to help. The parts guy looked up the number of the part I needed and they shipped it to me with in the week. And the cost was only $10.00 bucks. I also called them in the past about ordering storm windows for my trailer and the parts guy went to a lot of trouble running down a manager to get the info on the windows and see if they could be sold and installed by the customer. The manager returned my call with in the hour to give me the information I needed and that I could purchase them. I also called them one time when my trailer was new to see where a phone outlet was at on my trailer that I couldn't find. The guy in engineering looked it up and I was embarrassed at how many times I had looked all over that bedroom looking for that thing and it was right there under my nose where he told me it was on the side of the wardrobe below an electrical outlet. He didn't call me a big dummy or anything or at least not until I hung up the phone. :D
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HappyTrails2U2
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01/26/13 09:56pm |
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RE: Trailer aid ramp
Not to mention Im not sitting on the side of the road any longer than I have too. Ill change it myself and get on the way. That road side stuff can take hours sometimes
You got that right! The only way I'd wait on them to fix it is if I were to have a flat tire in the middle of Atlanta on the Interstate 'cause you don't want to be near a vehicle that's on the side of the road in that town. Somebody is going to hit it and it won't be long in happening. I used to drive up town every day in Atlanta for 3 years and I've actually seen someone crash into the rear end of another car during rush hour and then they just waved at each other and drove on rather than take a chance and try to pull over through 6 lanes of traffic in order to take a look at the damage.
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HappyTrails2U2
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01/26/13 09:18pm |
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RE: Pulling into Gas Stations with 30 foot TT
Just wing it http://i60.photobucket.com/albums/h40/GShipe/Angel.gifand don't worry about it. If an awing looks a little low have your wife watch it while you ease up to it.
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HappyTrails2U2
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01/26/13 08:28pm |
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RE: What' your RV/TT getting???
I bought my travel trailer a young cute little girl friend. OK, OK...my wife didn't buy it either but what else was I gonna tell her? http://i60.photobucket.com/albums/h40/GShipe/Evil2-1.gif
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HappyTrails2U2
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01/26/13 08:20pm |
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RE: Towing
I'd becareful with the 1/2 tons, I looked at some newer chevy and they stated to only pull 7000 with no slide.
Those new Chevy's 1/2 tons are some real smart trucks that are able to tell if the trailer they're pulling has a slide or not. I hope nobody tells my truck cause the trailer it's towing has got 2 slides and weighs over 8,000 lbs. and is 34' long. But then it's probably not as smart as the new ones. :R http://i60.photobucket.com/albums/h40/GShipe/Chevy.gif
It only took one post before the diesel salesmen came out. That's about a new record. If you got a pup tent you'll need a diesel to haul it with to according to some. Just go by what the vehicle manufacture rates their vehicles to be able to tow and no matter what brand of truck it is you'll be fine. Then if you want more truck than you need then that'll be your choice.
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HappyTrails2U2
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01/26/13 08:02pm |
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RE: They are trying to torture poor old Bob!!
Bob this is your lucky week. I'm sending you a check to cover the cost of one of those new 24 ft. travel trailers that you were looking at.
Nah not really I just thought I tell you that so I could be bad to Bob on be bad to Bob week!:W
Sorry I couldn't help myself the devil made me do it! http://i60.photobucket.com/albums/h40/GShipe/Evil2-1.gif
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HappyTrails2U2
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01/26/13 07:45pm |
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RE: Moving out the country - Thinking about consigning my TT
You might as well set it on fire if your thinking about renting it out. The end result will be the same when you get back.
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HappyTrails2U2
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01/23/13 12:27pm |
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RE: Can Someone Recommend A Dehumidifier?
I wonder if how long some of these products last has more to do with how well they were taken care of and less to do whit who made them?
There's not much you can do in the way of "taking care of them". About all you can do is keep the filter clean and keep at least one foot of clearance around them when they are running for correct air flow.
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HappyTrails2U2
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01/22/13 05:26am |
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RE: Can Someone Recommend A Dehumidifier?
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HappyTrails2U2
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01/18/13 10:24pm |
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RE: Can Someone Recommend A Dehumidifier?
Your best bet is to go to Amazon and check out the feed backs on different brands of dehumidifiers. Check them all including the expensive American made models and when you do you'll find out there's not a brand made that doesn't have a ton of complaints on them and most modern dehumidifiers tear up with in 3 or 4 years. These are not your parents old dehumidifiers that ran for 20 years this is today's junk and like I said check the so called "good American made units" for their feed backs and you'll find exactly the same stories. I checked them all and there's not a nickles worth of difference between any of them. So the best you can hope for is one that has a warranty that the company will stand behind. One of the biggest complaints you'll find is the company won't honor their warranties.
My LG 45 pint dehumidifier started icing up after almost 3 years right on time and I couldn't have asked for better service from the company. They gave me a work order and the name of a couple of approved appliances repair shops to take it to. The appliance shop called me back a couple of days later and said that LG said it would be cheaper for them to replace it than repair it. All they had to do was send a rebuild unit but since they didn't have any rebuilt units they sent me a brand new unit. The new one has been running a few months now and is doing fine and if it tears up with in the 5 year warranty period they'll either fix it or replace it. When they sent me the new one they requested that I send the old one back in the same box they sent the new one in. They had the prepaid shipping label in the box and all I had to do was call Fed-X and they picked it up at my house. Didn't cost me a penny.
Our unit is set at 40 percent humidity and it's on 24/7 365 days a year. Thats something else you need to check on to make sure the unit you buy will cut off on it's own when the compressor is not running otherwise you've got a noisy unit with the fan running all the time.
We've lived in Mississippi and Georgia in some of the most humid places around including a swamp for 2 years and we've never had a humidity problem. No sweating walls or window or anything. It's amazing how much water these things collect. Ours has approx. a two and a half gallon bucket on it and there's been times I had to dump it every 2 or 3 days in Mississippi. Here in Georgia we usually don't have to dump it but ever 6 days.
Good luck to you.
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HappyTrails2U2
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01/18/13 10:11pm |
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RE: Equalizer too large?
Agreed and you can set it to 3-400lb by lengthening the chains. You just want to distribute the weight.
What chains? The Equalizer doesn't have chains.
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HappyTrails2U2
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01/18/13 09:49pm |
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RE: Ultralite Travel Trailer: What would you stay away from?
I would stay away from an "Ultra lite Travel Trailer" Why pay for something you're not getting.
That's a load of bad information from someone that don't have a clue what they're talking about! You'll not find a better quality travel trailer than a Rockwood Signature Ultra Lite Travel Trailer. I've lived in mine for over 3 years averaging 4 days a week and just recently had the first item to break on it and that was the cold water knob in the shower that cracked. That's after well over 1000 showers. Not one single item of any sort has failed other than that in over 3 years and that's practically full time use. Show me any other brand that will do that!
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HappyTrails2U2
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01/18/13 09:46pm |
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RE: Sewer Hose Length & Type
Rhino's are pretty good if you are only a weekend camper. If you spend months at a time in one place and the Rhino is exposed to the weather 24 hours a day then they don't do very well. My elcheapo Walmart hose I'm using now has lasted 2 years compared to 11 months for the Rhino.The Rhino faded out in the sun and come completely apart in at least 50 places when I removed it from the septic tank connection. I've read a lot of post here about the Rhino's coming apart.
The Rhino's are a lot easier to support as they don't sag like the cheaper hoses but if you'll use a section of plastic house gutter from Home Depot to lay the cheap hose in it will lay in the gutter perfectly flat and you only have to support it where it comes out of the trailer and turns toward the septic tank. The other end can set on the ground at the septic tank connection. If your gutter section is to long you can let the long end stick back underneath your trailer.
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HappyTrails2U2
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01/06/13 09:37am |
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