Firtst time boon-docking - fill/empty tanks?
We are about to head to Colorado for the first time and plan to split the time between boon-docking and rv parks. This will be our first time boon docking so a couple of questions. First where can yo...
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It is amazing to me how these folks who are concerned with traveling with full water tanks vs 1/2 full tanks will take 2 grand children, 2 bicycles, 2 skate boards, extra chairs, electronic games, extra clothes, food etc. and not think a thing about weight! But they panic with 200# to 300# of extra of water.
Water weights 8.3#/ gal. For example 40 extra gal. of water weights 332#. If your combined rig weights 20,000# do you really believe that 332# more weight will make a difference in mpg? Under laboratory conditions yes, but in real life I don't think so (wind and speed have a bigger effect) Remember "a pint of water is a pound the world around" 2 pints equal a quart, 4 quarts equal a gal. (8 pts= 1 gal) A friend of mine has a Moho with a 100 gal diesel fuel tank, diesel fuel weights about 6.3#/gal you do the math for a full diesel tank vs 1/4 tank of diesel. I have a 60 gal direct replacement diesel fuel tank on my PU.
In our case we live in the county with our own personal 175 ft. deep domestic water well. So we normally drink unchlorinated and unfluorinated water. We can taste treated city water-YUCK! So we leave home with a full tank (80 gal) of our own well water, a 5 gal. bottle and a 2 gal dispenser container of drinking water and empty waste tanks.
When we lived inside the city limits (treated city water) I didn't worry about super chlorinating the RV water tank. Now the we live out side the city limits (29 years) I do super chlorinate the water at the beginning of the season and then before the next trip if we didn't have city treated water in it at the end of the last trip.
Water weights 8.3#/ gal. For example 40 extra gal. of water weights 332#. If your combined rig weights 20,000# do you really believe that 332# more weight will make a difference in mpg? Under laboratory conditions yes, but in real life I don't think so (wind and speed have a bigger effect) Remember "a pint of water is a pound the world around" 2 pints equal a quart, 4 quarts equal a gal. (8 pts= 1 gal) A friend of mine has a Moho with a 100 gal diesel fuel tank, diesel fuel weights about 6.3#/gal you do the math for a full diesel tank vs 1/4 tank of diesel. I have a 60 gal direct replacement diesel fuel tank on my PU.
In our case we live in the county with our own personal 175 ft. deep domestic water well. So we normally drink unchlorinated and unfluorinated water. We can taste treated city water-YUCK! So we leave home with a full tank (80 gal) of our own well water, a 5 gal. bottle and a 2 gal dispenser container of drinking water and empty waste tanks.
When we lived inside the city limits (treated city water) I didn't worry about super chlorinating the RV water tank. Now the we live out side the city limits (29 years) I do super chlorinate the water at the beginning of the season and then before the next trip if we didn't have city treated water in it at the end of the last trip.
