Camping Hoosiers
Southern Indiana
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jharrelson wrote:Just remember that for every gallon of water you carry.. you also carry about 8 pounds of weight..
10 gallons = 80 pounds
50 gallons = 400 pounds
etc..etc....
plus the weight of the container itself...
John
My intent is to carry the tank empty and then just use it in the area of where we are camping. However I do have the capacity to carry it full if I wish. I am probably going to stick with twenty gallons or so when I find the tank I want.
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Camping Hoosiers
Southern Indiana
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Thread with good tank and pump info
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Camping Hoosiers
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Nascarcruzin wrote:I went to Northern Tool and bought a 15 gallon hard plastic tank with a 12 volt pump already attached. Works good for me, I just throw in in the trunk of our Saturn, go to the closest water supply, fill the tank, come back to the R.V., hook up to the battery in the car and pump it into the R.V. Ronnie
This is interesting... I looked around their website and couldn't find it. I wonder if they still carry it? I think I have a catalog in my office so I'll take a look tomorrow.
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D & M
Laurel, MD
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I got the tank that was in DutchmanSport's post
35 gallon tank
I also got the stainless steel straps that fit the tank. I mounted it to a piece of plywood along with a 12 volt pump I picked up at Lowes. The whole thing fits in the cargo area behind the rear seat of my toad. There is a 12 volt cigerette lighter type "power port" back there so I can just plug the thing in. I use it all of the time at CGs that don't have hookups
Dave
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Kajtek1
CA
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Search the archive for lot of solutions posted on this forum already.
I am using Plastimo bladder tanks in my RV for years. One marine supplier sells them on ebay for very good price. Going to Mexico I installed one 60 gallons in the storage in my conversion. Even it is easily removable I never took it off and it is always there. Going to Sierra campgrounds I have water faucet there, but not only it is a hassle to fill up the tank from spring-loaded faucets, but water quality is questionable.
I figured out that 500 lb of water is not making big difference in 30,000 coach, so I am carrying good quality water with me.
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PopBeavers
San Jose, CA
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We will be doing some dispersed camping this year. My TT has a 40 gallon tank.
I bought three 7 gallon plastic containers at Big 5 today, at 14.99 each.
I like that they are tall and narrow, so they will not take up a lot of space in the truck alongside the motorcycles.
I do not want to drive out to get water somewhere. I want to take enough with me for 5 adults to get through a 3 day weekend.
Wayne in San Jose
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H & E
North Texas
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I have a 45 gal vinyl tank that folds up into to a small package. I picked it up at CW. Sit it on the truck roof add water. Let gravity fill the TT tank through the white hose that is normally the city water supply. I use the white hose with a filter to fill the portable tank.
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javaseuf
California's Gold Coast
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I bought a 30 gallon NSF approved tank designed to sit in a truck bed.
Inside the tank at the bottom outlet, I plumbed in a submersible 110-volt pump.
I mounted this tank onto a rolling cart. Now when we camp at our favorite campground (no hook-ups) I just roll the tank to the nearest hose bib, fill er' up and then roll it back to the trailer, plug in the 110-volt sumbersible pump into my portable invertor/battery pack and pump 30 gallons of water into the RV in about 15 minutes.
It has worked great for us for about 3 years.
This is the tank I used.
Steve
2007 Springdale 291RKL
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Rubiranch
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This was our original set up. I mounted this 12v ShureFlo water pump to a board and plugged it into the cigarette lighter. This worked fine until one time I forgot to take it with us.
Then I installed the pump and it pumps water directly into the main FW tank. The suction hose screws onto the pump in seconds. This was it's "test run".
The suction hose is 25' long. This works great for us. The trailer holds about 70 gallons (I added a second FW tank under the dinette seat) and we carry another 50 gallons in the bed of the truck.
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DutchmenSport
Between Anderson, Pendleton, & Lapel, Indiana
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Rubiranch wrote:... Then I installed the pump and it pumps water directly into the main FW tank. The suction hose screws onto the pump in seconds. This was it's "test run"....
Now that's a fantastic idea for the pump! With a little creativity, one could even use the existing on-board pump to pump out of the tanks in the back of the pick-up truck into another holding tank on the trailer or into the original holding tank on the trailer. With a second set of pipes and a few valves, it could be easily done!
I do believe this is one of the freshest ideas I seen on RV net in quite a while! Way to go Rubiranch!
DutchmenSport
2005 Chevy Silverado 3500 Dually Duramax 6.6L V8 Turbo
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2006 Keystone Springdale Model 263DBL
Weight 4985, Carrying Capacity 2575, Hitch 560, Length 30'
Width 8', Height 10' 6"
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