Storing a softside with the top up or down?
I keep my camper on the truck with a waterproof TC cover. I have kept the top up since I have it covered, and the cover is loose so there is plenty of air flow under it. Any opinions as to which is be...
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M Kirsch wrote:
HOWEVER, I would not consider leaving the top up if the camper was outside, even with a cover. Critters are more likely to chew through canvas than filon or aluminum.
....we have just about every vicious animal you can imagine in our big forest (square miles of it). That including fisher cats patrolling nightly (always after our neighbor's chickens!), bobcats, porcupines, red and gray squirrels, mice, plenty of raccoons (they can open our garage door (the small door with lever entry handle, not the 12 foot wide pull-up), and numerous other medium sized and large tooth carnivores (like plenty of black bears), and over 9 years of parking the camper rig in the forest with roof up for 6 months, not one has ever chewed through our Weblon soft wall (but your mileage may vary, depending where you live !).
On edit:....just thinking aloud, we had a mountain lion around here in 2010 that attacked a horse at a local ranch (while the ranch owner was fairly close by!)...ya, we do have mountain lion in the Northeast. They are VERY rare, however (probably escaped from illegal breeders facilities). It was never apprehended.
