How much weight could be eliminated?
A bit of a hypothetical question here but I got to wondering how many items on a camper could be eliminated while still providing a camping experience with minimal compromise. To that end, I thought i...
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Maybe I just wasn't clear in my original message. The question isn't what each individual weight savings could be but the aggregate whole if one did them all. Hence the title, "how much weight could be eliminated?". In the last post I made where I tried to guide this back on track to my original question, I estimated savings of 600lb that potentially could be saved if all of the items I listed were done. Expensive and impractical sure but impossible no.
For those of us driving dually 1 ton trucks 600lbs probably doesn't mean a whole lot. But for folks in the 1/2 ton and 3/4 range the weight savings could mean a larger camper for them that ordinarily they wouldn't be able to consider. Those of you that are fortunate to own a 1 ton truck or can afford to "buy what I want" without giving it much consideration, congrats, maybe this thread doesn't make sense for you. There are a lot of people that want to get into truck camping and already have a 1/2 ton or 3/4 ton truck that changing doesn't make sense or is unaffordable. Fully loaded dually trucks used are in the $20+k range and if you go new, you are looking at $50k to $90k.
Maybe the list of upgrades I suggested might add up to $5k to $10k but that is significantly cheaper to take 600lbs off a camper and use the truck one owns then to buy a new truck that one has to make payments on or might not fit in the garage or driveway. Just saying, if this concept of trying to save weight doesn't make sense to you then obviously it doesn't make sense to you. Again, this thread was intended to be a hypothetical exercise for discussion sake but unfortunately it has gone off the rails.
For those of us driving dually 1 ton trucks 600lbs probably doesn't mean a whole lot. But for folks in the 1/2 ton and 3/4 range the weight savings could mean a larger camper for them that ordinarily they wouldn't be able to consider. Those of you that are fortunate to own a 1 ton truck or can afford to "buy what I want" without giving it much consideration, congrats, maybe this thread doesn't make sense for you. There are a lot of people that want to get into truck camping and already have a 1/2 ton or 3/4 ton truck that changing doesn't make sense or is unaffordable. Fully loaded dually trucks used are in the $20+k range and if you go new, you are looking at $50k to $90k.
Maybe the list of upgrades I suggested might add up to $5k to $10k but that is significantly cheaper to take 600lbs off a camper and use the truck one owns then to buy a new truck that one has to make payments on or might not fit in the garage or driveway. Just saying, if this concept of trying to save weight doesn't make sense to you then obviously it doesn't make sense to you. Again, this thread was intended to be a hypothetical exercise for discussion sake but unfortunately it has gone off the rails.
