Looking for truck camper answers
We are just beginning to look at the idea of truck camping, and I have a couple of very basic questions. When you are camped and want to visit nearby areas, do you unload the camper or take it around ...
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Kayteg1 wrote:
We spend 9 weeks last summer traveling with our dogs and I recall only 2 nights when we could sleep with no AC.
I had Honda generator mounted on front receiver and that worked great as Honda is just sipping fuel and gas was easy to buy.
Most of the time we stay at campgrounds with electricity and I unloaded the camper lot of times, so I could leave dogs with AC on.
Unless you are bad driver to start with, removal takes about 3 minutes, loading on flat pad about 6, what takes longer on pad with slope as it takes more getting out and checking (I always load alone)
Campers have fresh water tank mounted on front and it happen that the weight pulled the floor down, so I carry aluminium tubing that I stack under front floor. That adds a lot to stability as well.
Before I got aluminium tubing, 4x6 sitting on 4x8 block was doing the job.
But you live (and camp) in a furnace. Around this part of the country ac isn't really needed and is a un needed expense. I don't sweat easily anyway, maybe you do...lol
Some TC are designed and strengthened underneath to be used off truck, mine is and some aren't. In my case, I prefer leaving the camper on the truck all the time because unlike your, mine isn't that big so parking and getting around in a tight spot is no harder than getting around with the truck without the camper in the bed.
