re-entering camping - what would you buy?
My wife and I and two young boys, with dogs, are looking to get back into camping. We had a Coleman Sante Fe pop-up trailer for years, sold it two years ago, and now are keen to get back into it. My...
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FishHaggis wrote:
We own a 2011 Silverado 1500, quad cab, short box, tows 9500lbs I think. It has a brake controller built in, and a 5.3 engine. This truck looks like it needs to tow!
Look at your drivers door jam for a sticker that will give you the trucks limits, or the manual or even a dealer. The big tow number is just one of the numbers you need to consider. Travel trailers put a lot of tongue weight on the hitch and that weigh comes out of your payload just as your family and any gear in the truck does.
You may also find a limit of how much tongue weight the receiver can handle too. A 7000 pound trailer can have around a 1000 pounds of tongue weight.
Travelling from Ontario to Yellowknife, North West Territories, for work and want to drive there with the TT. Can do it in 8 days, but want to do it over 2-3 weeks to see the sites. I am a big guy and those 74X60 queen size beds are too small. I need a 80X60 queen bed or able to retrofit the smaller beds for more leg room. I want two big bunk beds, like those double-double bunks. Slide outs for more room, outside shower, and outside kitchen would be nice.
We replaced out RV sized queen with a full sized pillow top queen. It hangs off the platform a few inches, no big deal.
I am looking at the StarCraft Autumn Ridge 289BHS: option B, or maybe the Autumn Ridge 278BH.
Will be using it for family fishing adventures, probably off the grid a lot, but will not pass up a serviced lot. Will also use it as a guest house when visitors come by over the summer.
Off grid means big tanks, extra battery capacity, a generator or simple solar set up.
New or used? weight distribution hitch? Sway bar? Just a ball hitch?
Sway control and weight distribution will make travel much better
Will not camp in the thing over the winters in the arctic of course, but will it self destruct just sitting at -40? I may want to drive it south when the winter comes.
Over the winter you winterize it by draining the tanks and plumbing and either blowing the system out, putting RV anti-freeze in or both.
Any advice is appreciated.
