Tail Feather Campers - a different camper
Okay, while this is certainly not a traditional TC, it can be mounted on a pickup bed - thus I posted here on the TC forum. It may have been posted previously but I could not find it. "Tail Feather...
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I wonder how he is getting on selling these.
I imagine there is more of a market for this type of technology for organisations that need to be able to transport and erect shelters of varying sizes and configurations, e.g. following disasters. An organisation could have a stock of lightweight, modular and easily transported components that can be configured on site into whatever form deemed necessary.
However, for private use, e.g. campers, I imagine the market would be limited. People tend to settle on the size of RV they need. If they have 2 different uses they buy a TC and a 5er for example; I struggle to see people breaking down their camper and reconfiguring it to be larger or smaller each time they want to go fishing instead of taking the wife on vacation. So for these customers the modular nature of the product is of no advantage - it is only an advantage to the manufacturer who saves cost. In fact the modular nature is probably a disadvantage, introducing more seams that can leak and reducing structural integrity.
Steve.
I imagine there is more of a market for this type of technology for organisations that need to be able to transport and erect shelters of varying sizes and configurations, e.g. following disasters. An organisation could have a stock of lightweight, modular and easily transported components that can be configured on site into whatever form deemed necessary.
However, for private use, e.g. campers, I imagine the market would be limited. People tend to settle on the size of RV they need. If they have 2 different uses they buy a TC and a 5er for example; I struggle to see people breaking down their camper and reconfiguring it to be larger or smaller each time they want to go fishing instead of taking the wife on vacation. So for these customers the modular nature of the product is of no advantage - it is only an advantage to the manufacturer who saves cost. In fact the modular nature is probably a disadvantage, introducing more seams that can leak and reducing structural integrity.
Steve.
