freezing temps & slides & tailgater

If you don't have slide toppers you will need to make sure there is no ice or snow on top of them before you close them. It may bind them when you go to close them.

As for propane you could contact a local propane supplier and rent a 100 lb propane cyclinder from them...have them hook it up to your MH

Thanks for the replies. It sounds like the slides & jacks will not be a problem.
We won't be hooking the water up, as we'll have access to a basement shower, etc, in the house. We just need the mh bed and a place to hang out. We have a very small house.

We've winter camped all winter for the past 3yrs in Mass. Every Friday we put the slides out, every Sunday evening we put them back in. Never an issue with slides or jacks. You can spray your seals with a DRY libricant...but we never have.
To help with the heat situation, we run electric space heaters to supplement the propane furnace.

Jim

We've done some winter camping in snow country. As other posters have mentioned operating the slides shouldn't be a problem. Bigger issue will be heat loss and continually running the furnace especially at night. Make sure you top off your propane tank beforehand. You'll probably use most of a tank in a week especially if you're running the furnace a lot. Keeping slides in does help contain the heat inside the rig. At night, to help retain the heat inside the rig pull down your window shades and maybe put up one of those aluminum foil type sun screens in your front windshield area. Finally, if you are going to hook up a water hose to the rig, I would recommend turning off the water and draining the outside hose each night. Otherwise the water in the hose may freeze at night making the hose unusable the next morning. You can just use your on board water tank at night if you need it. The residual heat coming out from inside the rig is usually enough to keep your basement storage tanks from freezing. Good luck.

Thanks, this is good info.

Jacks not a problem unless the pads stick to the ground. So have a barrier between the bottom of the jack pads and the ground.

In terms of the slides... slide operation is not a problem unless the seals have moisture on them and decide to stick to the sides..

The other issue relative to really cold weather with slides out is that the slide itself will not be as insulated on the top and bottom as the rest of your motorhome so leaving the slides in will present less challenge for your furnace to keep it comfortable.

JohnnyT

Thanks. I don't think it will be anywhere near that cold. We only ask because last year, on the way to Florida, we stopped at a campground where it was 17 degrees. The manager suggested that we should not use our slides because of the temps.
Otherwise, we never would have been concerned. We were just wondering if there would be problems.

Most hyd oil will not work at about -50F but you can get oil that will work if it's going to be colder then that.