SidecarFlip wrote:
mkirsch wrote:
Only overhanging by a foot, your truck's rear bumper will hit the ground long before the camper on any terrain you can traverse with a stock pickup truck.
True, but it adds weight. All the 950's I've seen (in pictures) are on dually's.
His primary goal is offroad camping. When camping offroad, especially on unimproved 2 tracks and seasonal access, weight is a consideration. I know, thats all I do.
Nice camper (950) anyway, minus the antique roof system.
so studying the specs and features tonight. Dry weight for the three Northstar sc popups run 1610 lbs for the 650sc, 1735 for the 850sc, and 1920 lbs for the 950sc. The 650 has a 20 gal water tank, the 850 and 950 have 30 gal tanks. So it looks like the 850sc and the 950sc wouldn't be terribly different in weight--figure 1000 lbs more for wet weight and that would be 2735 vs 2920 lbs. Door sticker on the new truck lists payload as 4295. These are all narrow (7') campers, so that's good.
btw, I wouldn't be averse to considering putting the 650sc in the long box, would be able to keep the tailgate on that way. But looking for a balance point for comfortable two-person camping, still guessing the 850 would feel more comfortable without having seen any of them yet.
hey, and I did find a video on youtube of someone who had an electric roof lift on a Northstar--I'll see if I can find that again. It was from several years back.
