Tips for reducing set-up time?
Does anyone have any tips to shorten set-up time (besides just pulling into a WalMart parking lot!)? At the end of a day of driving, we usually spend about 1.5 hr setting up, which makes for a very l...
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We threw a wine bottle through a velcro latched cabinet drawer onto the floor (red wine :( ) the microwave tray never moved!
If I take over an hour it includes washing the bugs off the front of the coach and cleaning up other messes we may have driven through. The only checklist we run - in our heads now - is disconnecting the tow'd. Must set the brake AND put it in gear before doing anything else on the site if we have to disconnect. Had it roll away from me twice many years ago. Wish I had the picture of me hanging onto the towbar screaming for DW to come with the keys to set the brake - maybe I'm glad I don't have that picture.
When friendly neighbor greets me during setup or departure prep I stop work and focus on being nice then resume from beginning of checklist after he leaves (it is never a woman).
We are on our present site for a month. It took 15 minutes to get the coach situated, leveled slides out and hooked up upon arrival. Camp furniture has come out and been put away a couple of times as weather and our needs have changed. We are leaving in 2 days. Most of the outdoor stuff is stowed because the weather is cold and wet. Will complete stowing the night before departure.
WE do live full time on the coach and seldom stay more than a week anyplace so we are setting up and taking down at least weekly. It gets to be routine. When we were at Red Bay having work done, we had to be ready to close up and move from site to bay with 15 minutes notice most every day. Our last day they finished the last project as closing time was approaching. We had 5 minutes to get it together, get out of the bay and through the gate. We did stop alongside the road to double check our departure routine and be sure everything that wanted to be latched wouldn't be talking to us down the road.
In normal life we seldom roll before 10 AM and are usually off the road by 3 PM allowing an hour for stops including lunch and a driver change. The journey IS the destination.
If I take over an hour it includes washing the bugs off the front of the coach and cleaning up other messes we may have driven through. The only checklist we run - in our heads now - is disconnecting the tow'd. Must set the brake AND put it in gear before doing anything else on the site if we have to disconnect. Had it roll away from me twice many years ago. Wish I had the picture of me hanging onto the towbar screaming for DW to come with the keys to set the brake - maybe I'm glad I don't have that picture.
When friendly neighbor greets me during setup or departure prep I stop work and focus on being nice then resume from beginning of checklist after he leaves (it is never a woman).
We are on our present site for a month. It took 15 minutes to get the coach situated, leveled slides out and hooked up upon arrival. Camp furniture has come out and been put away a couple of times as weather and our needs have changed. We are leaving in 2 days. Most of the outdoor stuff is stowed because the weather is cold and wet. Will complete stowing the night before departure.
WE do live full time on the coach and seldom stay more than a week anyplace so we are setting up and taking down at least weekly. It gets to be routine. When we were at Red Bay having work done, we had to be ready to close up and move from site to bay with 15 minutes notice most every day. Our last day they finished the last project as closing time was approaching. We had 5 minutes to get it together, get out of the bay and through the gate. We did stop alongside the road to double check our departure routine and be sure everything that wanted to be latched wouldn't be talking to us down the road.
In normal life we seldom roll before 10 AM and are usually off the road by 3 PM allowing an hour for stops including lunch and a driver change. The journey IS the destination.
