Bring a genny on the road.

Your questions leaves a little imformation missing .such as , Carry on carrier on back of trailer or truck ? Do ya need to run air cond ? Electric adaptor or hitch adaptor ? I am confused .

I have twin Honda 2000's. Right now they ride inside the TT. I need to have a welding shop alter my spare tire carrier to raise the tire up a few inches so my rear carrier will clear. Then they will ride in that.

And before I get flamed I had a fabricator build my rear hitch on the TT. It is tied well up into the frame and I have double towed my boat 1000's of miles with it.

Like several others we keep our 3 KW Honda in the truck bed. To use just pull it out toward the tailgate. We have a hard cover for the bed so that all the equipment in there is covered, dry and secure.
I put carpet on the truck bed, fastened it with blind rivets. Found that the carpet keeps the gen set, jack box, box for EQUAL I ZER hitch parts, etc in place without tie downs! Surprise me but it does.
CCC

We have a older Champion 3500/4000 and the only place we have to keep it is in the trailer as we travel. In order to do that and not have it smell up the trailer we drain the gas out, run it dry and let it set with the cap off so the gas smell airs out.

I carry mine in the Suburban. Along with gas cans. Even haul my riding mower in there out to camp. Chain saws, brush cutter, multiple gas cans, 100lb propane tanks have all ridden inside. Never had an issue. Never had obnoxious fumes. I know that some folks don't like the idea of carrying these things in the passenger compartment, but to me that's a non-issue.

When I had the 1/2 ton, I put the genny inside the tt in the back to help take a little tongue weight off. With the 3/4, it makes no difference.

I keep mine in the bed of the truck chained down. I also have a canopy so when I run it I open the door and it stays dry in the rain.

I carry my 2K Honda Generator secured with a steel locking cable to the inside of my truck bed near the tailgate. My truck is equipped with one of those thick panel locking folding bed tops (FOLD_A_COVER).

When I need to use it I just pull it out onto the tailgate. The tailgate seems to be an excellent spot for the trailer shore power cable to reach. Just use a RV30A-15A long adapter from WALMART and plug the shore power cable directly into it. My 2KW Honda generator will run everything in our trailer except the Air Conditioner and high wattage microwave unit.

My generator is only used to re-charge my batteries when camping off the power grid and of course can run a few things when the generator is running. I have beefed my trailer to be more "green" on power consumption, added more batteries, use smart-mode converter/charger and larger battery cables etc with the game plan being we can run all the 120VAC items we want to use from an Inverter and all the 12VDC items direct connected to the battery bank. We will do all of this in a one day/night run off the batteries and then re-charge the batteries then next morning at 8AM when allowed to run our generator. Running off the batteries is almost the same as we do at regular electric sites with the exception of the air conditioner and high wattage microwave.

Where we usually camp here on the East side of the US all seem to have generator run time restrictions in place which is only a few hours during the day and never after 8PM at night. Sure can't run a generator to keep the air conditioner going when camping off the power grid and follow all the noise rules.



This keeps my generator out-of-sight when not is use and my generator always goes where I go. I would never leave my generator unattended at the camp site. It only take a thief just seconds to cut through almost any method you can come up with to secure them in plain view.. To me the best method of securing the generator is to keep it out-of-sight. I have witnessed two generator thief's in my travels over the past five years.

Having my generator with me at all times has really been a useful tool to have around. I can't count the number of rescues I have done in the WALMART parking lots for stranded folks including myself... I am always firing up my truck mounted generator for something... My portable B&D VEC1093DBD smart mode battery charger is also stored in the truck tool box.

just my experiences on using a generator on my camping trips...
Roy Ken

have a hitch reciever bolted on to the rear frame ,then a carrier big enough to hold gen and a fuel tank, bolt the gen down or it,ll walk away. going down the road I,ve seen this done.

I never could figure out how to carry one plus the fuel so I gave mine away and camp where we can plug in. We live east of the Mississippi so the opportunities to boondock are few anyway.