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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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RE: Reservations at federal parks
The fees for use of credit card is still cheaper than hiring a full time employee just to process and deposit checks and cash that call for a trip to the bank for the latter.
That's it. I stayed at a first come first served national monument campground that went to credit card payment only. They had a kiosk where you picked a site, and then went to swipe your card in the machine every day to pay for it. I talked to one of the rangers about it, and told them it was a lot more convenient for me than having $22.50 exact cash, or have to carry and write checks for every night, etc.
The ranger said the credit card system worked out much better for them too rather than accepting cash/checks. The park had to have 2 rangers sit in a locked room together and both count all the cash every day to verify it, take it to the bank, etc. The cost of their time was a huge savings for them as well.
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NatParkJunkie
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01/28/22 10:06pm |
General RVing Issues
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RE: Northeast Oklahoma
there's a couple national monument sites in south east Kansas and south west Missouri....Fort Scott, George Washington Carver, Pea Ridge, Fort Smith.
Also maybe some random Route 66 relics. Blue whale of Cartoosa, Pops Arcadia in Oklahoma City. Other route 66 tall things in Tulsa.
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NatParkJunkie
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01/17/22 08:33pm |
RV Parks, Campgrounds and Attractions
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Solar sale
Amazon is having a sale on Renogy solar equipment right now. solar panels, charge controllers, dc to dc charge controllers, some inverters. 15-30% discounts right now.
renogy sale
Jackery power boxes are also on sale if you need a little pick me up
jackary sale
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NatParkJunkie
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10/19/21 08:11am |
General RVing Issues
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RE: Flying J frustrations - Alternatives?
Look into the EFS fleet fuel card by TSD Logistics. You'll get a lot more than 6 cents per gallon discount at a lot more truck stops.
Rob
does the TSD card give discounts equal or better than nearby gas stations? truck stops are almost always significantly more expensive than nearby gas stations a mile or two up the road. I'll almost always skip the truck stop for the cheaper fuel. But also have a truck camper. I can pull in anywhere. never have to worry if I can fit through another station with a trailer.
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NatParkJunkie
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10/02/21 11:25pm |
General RVing Issues
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RE: 8 people killed in Utah sand storm
ok, I was confused at first. thought they were just sitting in their campers...
it was a highway accident. link
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NatParkJunkie
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07/26/21 09:26pm |
General RVing Issues
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RE: Please Help 2006 mustang pop up
I replaced most of my outside door locks from the standard CH751 key to tubular locks for a little more security.
but the Lock Picking Lawyer makes these locks easy to pick too.
youtube
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NatParkJunkie
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07/26/21 09:23pm |
Beginning RVing
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RE: Dog fence when sitting outside camper with dog
.....screws into ground/attach leash og has free roam of CG site but not running loose
*we used one for our 78# Border Collie/Lab.
No!
4 nights ago, the neighbors in the next camp site over tethered their 80+ pounder on a spiral screw in stake in the ground. It charged me and my dog and popped the stake right out of the ground. It wasn't pretty.
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NatParkJunkie
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06/07/21 10:11pm |
RV Pet Stop
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