Best dump hose length
How long should my dump hose be?
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Stickdog also brings up a VERY valid point too. If traveling from location to location (not seasonal camping), you never know how the utilities will be arranged for your campsite until you get there. Now granted, Reserve America is pretty good at giving descriptions of campsites in State Parks when you make your reservations for any of the states that use this reservation system. They post the distance from the campsite to water hook ups and if there is no water on site, it won't be there.
But sometimes, you still don't know where the water spigot will be located, if they are a shared spigot between 2 sites, or one for each site, or none at all. Electric outlets can also be placed in some very weird locations with respect to the camp site.
For this reason, I always carry 200 feet of garden hose. Four 50 foot sections that can be connected together. And yes, a few times I have used it all.
I also carry 2 twenty-five foot 30 amp electric cords, plus 2 fifty foot 30 amp hoses, and I also have a 35 foot 30 amp electric cord.
Mostly, a single 25 foot cord is adequate. But we have run into many campsites that 25 foot was just too short. The 50 footer seemed way to long, but was glad we had it.
At home, I use one of the 50 footers, unless I plug into a different outlet (at home), then I need 75 feet if the trailer is turned the opposite direction. At our previous house, I needed 125 feet of extension cord.
I think, the longest I used in any campground was 135 feet for electric, and the same spot, I needed 125 feet of hose to reach. That site did not have sewer hook-up.
So, depending upon how you camp, where you go, you just never know what your going to run into.
There is nothing more disappointing than reaching your destination and finding out you are only 1 foot short of being able to hook up to water or worse ... electric.
One one of our first campouts with our first travel trailer, we were within a foot of reach the water spigot. We made a mad dash to WalMart and bought another garden hose. It was right then and there I decided I'd never "come up short again." Maybe I'm a bit anal here, but we've never run into a problem carrying so much with us.
But sometimes, you still don't know where the water spigot will be located, if they are a shared spigot between 2 sites, or one for each site, or none at all. Electric outlets can also be placed in some very weird locations with respect to the camp site.
For this reason, I always carry 200 feet of garden hose. Four 50 foot sections that can be connected together. And yes, a few times I have used it all.
I also carry 2 twenty-five foot 30 amp electric cords, plus 2 fifty foot 30 amp hoses, and I also have a 35 foot 30 amp electric cord.
Mostly, a single 25 foot cord is adequate. But we have run into many campsites that 25 foot was just too short. The 50 footer seemed way to long, but was glad we had it.
At home, I use one of the 50 footers, unless I plug into a different outlet (at home), then I need 75 feet if the trailer is turned the opposite direction. At our previous house, I needed 125 feet of extension cord.
I think, the longest I used in any campground was 135 feet for electric, and the same spot, I needed 125 feet of hose to reach. That site did not have sewer hook-up.
So, depending upon how you camp, where you go, you just never know what your going to run into.
There is nothing more disappointing than reaching your destination and finding out you are only 1 foot short of being able to hook up to water or worse ... electric.
One one of our first campouts with our first travel trailer, we were within a foot of reach the water spigot. We made a mad dash to WalMart and bought another garden hose. It was right then and there I decided I'd never "come up short again." Maybe I'm a bit anal here, but we've never run into a problem carrying so much with us.
