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Pipeman
Apr 26, 2019Explorer
We dry camp most of the time when we go camping. We have a 35 ft 5th wheel. Fresh water is 60 gallons. I have 2 water bladders I can use. One is 60 gals and the other 55. We have a 1 ton dually long box so I can put the 60 gal bladder in front of the 5th wheel as it looks like an over sized AWOL bag. We will be doing that next month when we will go for a week of dry camping. The other bladder goes behind the 5th wheel and it doesn't get filled until after we arrive at our destination but on the trip coming it will not be used. I use a RV water pump which gets plugged into the 7 way plug at the rear of the truck. I have an adapter into which a 12 volt plug in is used to power the pump, which is placed on the Tgate. We aren't stingy with the water as we have showers every morning but they are navy showers. Get wet, water off, lather up, water on to rinse, water off. I have used an air compressor run by our genny to pump water into the gravity feed of our trailers over the years and this 5er has a gravity feed also. I think my set up would work with the systems I read about on the newer trailers. I've also had different water containers, over the years to pump water from but what we use now is the best we've had. 5 gallon plastic jugs, 50 gallon plastic barrels and now colapsible water bladders. I have 3 kids(adults) who also use the collapsible water bladders. Adapt and have fun.
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