Do I need a full parking pad?
Right now, our trailer spends the summer sitting in, and thus blocking, much of our driveway. I have an open area next to our drive that would fit our TT. It is grass at this point, and we don't want ...
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rhagfo wrote:
I guess i just don't get the whole idea of parking the trailer at home during the summer. I assume that the rest of the year the trailer is in a storage yard. Is the storage yard far away? Do you cancel storage for the four or five months of summer, then hope to get it back in the fall?
We live in a Town House, no place for the 5er. Storage yard about 4 miles from the house.We keep it mostly stocked the entire year, cloths, non perishable food, all other necessities.
Time for a trip, we have a tote and freezer bags we load the food from home and any extra cloths we need and head for the 5er. We load up and hook up and head out. I have also done maintenance in the storage yard.
Best time for decide and gone was a weekend trip to the coast. Out of the office at 2:15 pm, 4 miles to home, install hitch, air up tires, load food tote, load dogs bed and the dogs 4 miles to storage yard. Start refer (we decide that morning to go), load food in refer and freezer, hook up do a double walk around to be sure all is ready to hit the road, and were out the yard gate at 3:30 PM not too bad!!
Why kill the grass!
I wasn't going to get into it because it wasn't pertinent to the discussion, but since it has been batted around a few times now - our usage of the TT is best suited by keeping the trailer at home during the season. We generally have 15-20 days between trips in the summer. Departure usually takes place right after work, and return is usually the night before we return to work again. This means that loading, unloading, cleaning and maintenance all happens in spurts on the days leading up to, and just after, a trip. With this, and the fact that our storage lot has sight issues that mean it takes a spotter to get in and out, it is simply not worth the hassle to take it back to the lot for a week, only to go back and pick it up for the next trip.
