1970s Great Divide - Ta-Ton-Ka Sal-Va-Gion
Can I do this here? It's not a Travel Trailer. Of course, I suppose any of these vintage bumper-pull campers don't REALLY fit the definition of TT. Isn't a TT something that travels, not camps? Many o...
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Those are good points Charlie. I suppose there are other factors, like where it's placed, are there walled off rooms (bedroom, bath), and of course the lack of adequate air movement other than natural convection - so as to move that heated air into the places it needs to be. (Disclaimer - Radiant doesn't heat the air, the heated surfaces from the radiant heats the air, and that takes time).
Part of the equation I think is interior size needing to be heated. Why I remember back when my great-grandparents grew up, and we all hung out around the parlor stove? Nice and warm, until Grandpa built that spare bedroom off the one wall. We all FROZE in there - FROZE I tell you FROZE!
Later, when they added the forced-air furnace, EVERYBODY wanted to sleep in that new room! Toastiest place in the house.
Or that one time when DW and I were elk hunting in Jackson Hole area. Snow and cold as far as the eye could see! We had that small canned ham, no bigger than Tow-Mater, without the forward bunk. Since canned hams don't have mud-rooms, we'd have to come and go with our boots, and the snow that fell off would pack down on the floor and became packed snow and ice (PSR).
Just a few feet higher, in the upper half of the trailer, it was too HOT to even stand up. I could feel my hair starting to crackle and I feared the least little static charge, things were so dried out.
Of course we might have had many "open to the outside" spots, as old campers tend to have. Areas w/o insulation. We had the "under-bed" doors open to try and get room temperature air into the fresh tank.
Even so, the water line from tank to hand-pump, never froze up good until outside air temperature reached -15F.
But I agree. When possible, I like to have less dependence on multi-power sources and needs. ;)
Part of the equation I think is interior size needing to be heated. Why I remember back when my great-grandparents grew up, and we all hung out around the parlor stove? Nice and warm, until Grandpa built that spare bedroom off the one wall. We all FROZE in there - FROZE I tell you FROZE!
Later, when they added the forced-air furnace, EVERYBODY wanted to sleep in that new room! Toastiest place in the house.
Or that one time when DW and I were elk hunting in Jackson Hole area. Snow and cold as far as the eye could see! We had that small canned ham, no bigger than Tow-Mater, without the forward bunk. Since canned hams don't have mud-rooms, we'd have to come and go with our boots, and the snow that fell off would pack down on the floor and became packed snow and ice (PSR).
Just a few feet higher, in the upper half of the trailer, it was too HOT to even stand up. I could feel my hair starting to crackle and I feared the least little static charge, things were so dried out.
Of course we might have had many "open to the outside" spots, as old campers tend to have. Areas w/o insulation. We had the "under-bed" doors open to try and get room temperature air into the fresh tank.
Even so, the water line from tank to hand-pump, never froze up good until outside air temperature reached -15F.
But I agree. When possible, I like to have less dependence on multi-power sources and needs. ;)
