Battery security
We are doing a little research. Just wondering how to lock the two battery boxes to the travel trailer tongue. Our local RV shop basically did not have any suggestions. Thank you. West Beachhouse
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Being a off-road camper and finding ourselves way back off the power grid as you can get here on the East side of the US (which isn't very far hehe) I never used to think twice about having a generator stolen. The new generations folks must have different values in these hard times I guess...
Just a few years ago I was camping at Elkmont Camp site in the Smoky Mtn Natl Park and was almost at the East end of site roads where it was just me and one other POPUP trailer facing each other on the loop road.
He was already there when I arrived so got to chat with them right away while I was getting our camp setup. He had just bought a new 3KW Honda Generator and had it log chained to a 6-inch or so size small tree near his POPUP trailer. He was all excited and had to show me how well his generator ran his whole trailer etc...
We got all setup and settled down for the night and had a good nights sleep. The next morning I had to do my generator run for a few hours during breakfast to re-charge my batteries I used up over night. He was doing the same across the loop road with his generator. We are not allowed to run the generators in this park after 8PM at night.
Around noon the wife and I headed out to a local town called Townsend to get some supplies for our three day stay and got back to ELKMONT after a couple of hours. It was around 2PM I think.
Found we couldn't go down our one way loop road for a tree being down across the road. Had to go all around the site and came up the wrong way on the other side to get to our camp site.
Couldn't believe what we saw. Someone had cut down the small tree in broad daylight and stole the man's 3KW Honda Generator. We were the only two trailers on this site loop road.
About that time my neighbor camper came driving up the wrong way on the loop road. He was almost in tears when he saw what had happened. There we both stood looking at the cut down tree. Lucky for me I guess my 2KW generator was in the tail gate of my truck so was not left unattended... Nothing else was stolen at either camp site. The dudes were just looking for generators I guess.
I shared my 2KW generator with my neighbor camper until we had to leave to keep his batteries re-charged... geesch... Something like this always happens to the good guys it seems... I think his insurance was going to get him another generator but that didn't help him out for this camping trip...
The Park Ranger told us they were being hit all over the camp grounds for generator thief's.
TRUE STORY around October 2010...
Roy Ken
Just a few years ago I was camping at Elkmont Camp site in the Smoky Mtn Natl Park and was almost at the East end of site roads where it was just me and one other POPUP trailer facing each other on the loop road.
He was already there when I arrived so got to chat with them right away while I was getting our camp setup. He had just bought a new 3KW Honda Generator and had it log chained to a 6-inch or so size small tree near his POPUP trailer. He was all excited and had to show me how well his generator ran his whole trailer etc...
We got all setup and settled down for the night and had a good nights sleep. The next morning I had to do my generator run for a few hours during breakfast to re-charge my batteries I used up over night. He was doing the same across the loop road with his generator. We are not allowed to run the generators in this park after 8PM at night.
Around noon the wife and I headed out to a local town called Townsend to get some supplies for our three day stay and got back to ELKMONT after a couple of hours. It was around 2PM I think.
Found we couldn't go down our one way loop road for a tree being down across the road. Had to go all around the site and came up the wrong way on the other side to get to our camp site.
Couldn't believe what we saw. Someone had cut down the small tree in broad daylight and stole the man's 3KW Honda Generator. We were the only two trailers on this site loop road.
About that time my neighbor camper came driving up the wrong way on the loop road. He was almost in tears when he saw what had happened. There we both stood looking at the cut down tree. Lucky for me I guess my 2KW generator was in the tail gate of my truck so was not left unattended... Nothing else was stolen at either camp site. The dudes were just looking for generators I guess.
I shared my 2KW generator with my neighbor camper until we had to leave to keep his batteries re-charged... geesch... Something like this always happens to the good guys it seems... I think his insurance was going to get him another generator but that didn't help him out for this camping trip...
The Park Ranger told us they were being hit all over the camp grounds for generator thief's.
TRUE STORY around October 2010...
Roy Ken
