New Member Introduction - First Time TC Buyer
Hello, everyone. I am a soon to be first time truck camper buyer. We live in North Georgia, which unfortunately for visiting dealers, events and clubs to learn about truck camping and our purchasing...
Forum Discussion
Thanks for the comparison pics, Bedlam and sbryan. This is a great group here!
Bedlam, I see your point about the floor width and slides on both sides. At the same time, you end up with a lot of storage under the floor, but having the entire living space above the bed rails seems to really raise the CG of the camper and truck/camper unit, so I suppose you'd need to be pretty stout on the suspension side of things to tolerate such a setup. With close to 6500 pounds payload on the gas F-350 I'd like to think we will be, so something with a slide may be in our wheelhouse, although not knowing more than I know I do worry about the slides from mechanism and leakage standpoints, and someone earlier mentioned more difficulty heating.
sbryan, excuse my ignorance, but in a configuration like yours where you're basically standing on the truck bed when standing on the camper floor, where does that put the holding tanks, which I assume are in the "basement" on a configuration like Bedlam's above? Is there any usage of the space fore/aft of the wheelhouses below the bedrails, or are the tanks above the wheelhouses or even the bed rails on the sides, which I suppose then raises the camper CG?
Regarding storage, I like to think maybe we will be able to get away with a little on the lesser side in the camper, having the Super Cab configuration and most of the time a largely empty (and folded up) rear seat.
On another note, do you guys recommend considering any used campers, or with the number of ways that things can go wrong, especially it seems with lack of maintenance and water leakage, that used campers just be avoided entirely? I'm sure there's no "right" answer on this one, but would be curious what you think, what you would advise to look out for/check very thoroughly, and/or what your past experiences might have been.
Lastly I'm very jealous seeing you guys talking about heading to Alaska! Enjoy the trips!!!
Bedlam, I see your point about the floor width and slides on both sides. At the same time, you end up with a lot of storage under the floor, but having the entire living space above the bed rails seems to really raise the CG of the camper and truck/camper unit, so I suppose you'd need to be pretty stout on the suspension side of things to tolerate such a setup. With close to 6500 pounds payload on the gas F-350 I'd like to think we will be, so something with a slide may be in our wheelhouse, although not knowing more than I know I do worry about the slides from mechanism and leakage standpoints, and someone earlier mentioned more difficulty heating.
sbryan, excuse my ignorance, but in a configuration like yours where you're basically standing on the truck bed when standing on the camper floor, where does that put the holding tanks, which I assume are in the "basement" on a configuration like Bedlam's above? Is there any usage of the space fore/aft of the wheelhouses below the bedrails, or are the tanks above the wheelhouses or even the bed rails on the sides, which I suppose then raises the camper CG?
Regarding storage, I like to think maybe we will be able to get away with a little on the lesser side in the camper, having the Super Cab configuration and most of the time a largely empty (and folded up) rear seat.
On another note, do you guys recommend considering any used campers, or with the number of ways that things can go wrong, especially it seems with lack of maintenance and water leakage, that used campers just be avoided entirely? I'm sure there's no "right" answer on this one, but would be curious what you think, what you would advise to look out for/check very thoroughly, and/or what your past experiences might have been.
Lastly I'm very jealous seeing you guys talking about heading to Alaska! Enjoy the trips!!!
