Avion truck campers - Hundreds of photos
Without going into too much painful detail, we had a mishap several week-ends ago. While working with sand bag crews on the Mississippi River, the truck and camper fell into the flood waters as a road...
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67avion wrote:
Gary, that is an epic adventure that you described. I simply can't imagine the complexity of the family life onboard the Avion, the traipse to California, and then the drive back with a monster snow plow hanging off the front of the truck....not to mention driving around with the family, with the snowplow and on and on. Your good humor and energy is inspiring! By the way best of luck to your son in 29Palms, and thanks for his service (and yours).
Thanks for the kind words! Since I have regularly hauled a 7.5 foot wide plow, this one did not feel that much bigger, until I looked again at this picture...
The new plow is 8.5 feet without the wings. The wings add over a 6 inches to each side. That makes it when perpendicular to the road the plow is over 9.5 feet wide. When I place it at a near 45 degree angle, it brings it back to the width of the truck and camper, but extends the leading edge waaaay out front. Almost too far for the headlights even with them mounted higher with bushings. But by pivoting the plow, it drastically cut down the wind drag, minimized the effect of wind gusts but makes it even more difficult to judge where that thing is away out front...:B:R:C
