Reflections on 6 Months of RV Research! ;)
Hi Class C Forum, I caught the RV bug about 6 months ago after a particularly stressful stretch at work. Researching RVs has become the way that I decompress when I have some discretionary time. Cu...
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Robert,
You are misreading the road in the background of my Death Valley photo. It's severe sharp rocks just like those we're camped on ... no grading anywhere. That road happens to be a 4X4 road in one of it's more level sections before the nasties start behind us in the hills - but loaded with rocks nevertheless. Jeeps and 4X4s came down it while we camped just off it.
What makes you think that an E450 chassis somehow isn't a 1-1/4 ton truck in every sense of the word? Granted ours doesn't have built-in BlueTooth capability and it has only leaf springs and coil springs. Are you saying it's not capable of carrying 14,050 lbs. around very long and/or do you have no use for it's V10? Remember ... I'm using our E450 under-loaded at all times so it has plenty of design margins throughout. Just what I wanted in a truck under our Class C.
BTW, my DW could never get up into that strange looking thing in your photo above - nor would I want her to have to ... and where would I get that contraption repaired if and when needed anywhere in the Western U.S. like I can our Ford chassis (which has never needed it yet). .... and of course our Class C could easily traverse the road that your photo rig is on. :)
You are misreading the road in the background of my Death Valley photo. It's severe sharp rocks just like those we're camped on ... no grading anywhere. That road happens to be a 4X4 road in one of it's more level sections before the nasties start behind us in the hills - but loaded with rocks nevertheless. Jeeps and 4X4s came down it while we camped just off it.
What makes you think that an E450 chassis somehow isn't a 1-1/4 ton truck in every sense of the word? Granted ours doesn't have built-in BlueTooth capability and it has only leaf springs and coil springs. Are you saying it's not capable of carrying 14,050 lbs. around very long and/or do you have no use for it's V10? Remember ... I'm using our E450 under-loaded at all times so it has plenty of design margins throughout. Just what I wanted in a truck under our Class C.
BTW, my DW could never get up into that strange looking thing in your photo above - nor would I want her to have to ... and where would I get that contraption repaired if and when needed anywhere in the Western U.S. like I can our Ford chassis (which has never needed it yet). .... and of course our Class C could easily traverse the road that your photo rig is on. :)
