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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ticki2 wrote:67avion wrote:Matt did you reinforce the floor to hang an additional 360# on the overhang ? I'm not sure an Avion floor could take it .JoeChiOhki wrote:
I use a 45 gallon thetford, I put big eye hooks (the lag bolt kind) into the underside of the floor on the rear overhang and uses ratcheting straps to cinch the tank up to the underside.
Is there any chance you could post some photos?
I only used this method for transporting empty between camps in this configuration.
When I was using it, the camper was generally off the truck, so I either just hitched it to the truck and towed it to a dump site (if it was in a short distance), or used a set of harbor freight tailgate ramps to roll it up into the back of the truck to haul.
These aren't the best photos of it in use, but they're the only ones I have of it in play during a 10,000+ mile journey across the country.
You can see it poking out a bit from the underside of the rear overhang. The tanks hanging upside down so that it had a flat surface to clamp up against the underside of the camper's main holding tank.
