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Jfet
May 19, 2016Explorer
Down to one week until we set off for full time truck camping.
We packed up the truck with just about everything, including the kitchen sink and for the first time took out the sailboat (which was a good test of the trailer hitch we welded up from scrap metal LOL). She is heavy but seemed to ride well pulling the boat. We are right at capacity with a few hundred pounds to spare. Front axle has dropped below 6000 pounds as I knew it would. Sailboat and trailer were 3200 pounds (it has a 600 pound lead keel). Going to be a slow go, but we are in no rush.
One slightly heavy thing we added was a 3 axis cnc milling machine to the garage pod workbench. I still need to do a bit of wiring on the controller but figure I can finish that in some tranquil setting.


We packed up the truck with just about everything, including the kitchen sink and for the first time took out the sailboat (which was a good test of the trailer hitch we welded up from scrap metal LOL). She is heavy but seemed to ride well pulling the boat. We are right at capacity with a few hundred pounds to spare. Front axle has dropped below 6000 pounds as I knew it would. Sailboat and trailer were 3200 pounds (it has a 600 pound lead keel). Going to be a slow go, but we are in no rush.
One slightly heavy thing we added was a 3 axis cnc milling machine to the garage pod workbench. I still need to do a bit of wiring on the controller but figure I can finish that in some tranquil setting.


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