Boondock campers with no plumbing?
I have been searching for years for a trailer that is made to boondock. I never use water lines or the plumbing in my camper because I hate winterizing. I never need them either. 2 20 gallon totes of ...
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JiminDenver wrote:acoustic5679 wrote:
Winterizing is not that big of deal to me either. Its just I choose not to fill up the tanks with water cause of where I am camping usually. Last weekend for instance I was 47 miles on a forest service road that was 4x4 high clearance. its not recommended to have a full reservoir of water in my popup camper filled while doing roads like that. Plus I would love the extra storage room. I currently have a jacked up popup with 14" clearance. cage/toy hauler on front. I was just curious if there was a market out there for something like that. Sounds like I may be a minority there. Thanks for all the replies!
I can't take out trailer where you can take your pop up.
I don't care how much lighter it is, we wouldn't be able to take out 25 ft trailer over much rougher than we do now even if I reversed the axles. You can only tip a box like that so far before it gets too top heavy, the length means special attention has to be paid to the waste valves in the back and I always have to know what each of the 8 wheels is doing at any time. Anything above a crawl will shake the trailer and everything in it and the thought of getting it stuck makes me about as cautious as you can get.
It took us 45 minutes to go 4 miles a few trips ago, I wouldn't do 47 miles like that.
I would echo this same thought.
A heavier hard sided trailer is not going to be fun to deal with on rough unmaintained roads. Longer, heavier trailers will bog you down and if you don't bogged down a good chance of dragging front, rear or both ends of the trailer on rocks, mud and such.. Not to mention high centering the entire rig.
I spent a few years cleaning up trees at my BILs place, he has some really rough "trails" if you could call them that.. Ruts as deep as 2 or three feet in places.. No way I would ever want to drag my 18ft Flatbed trailer in there let alone my 26ft TT!
I parked my flat bed trailer at the beginning of his trail, and used my 4x4 tractor with front loader to "shuttle" the fire wood nearly two miles back into his property.. I didn't even want to take my pickup truck into that mess..
