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Re: Rosy Lane Campground
We camped there back in the days we tent camped on motorcycles... maybe 1992 or something like that. It was heaven. No noise. Hardly anyone but us there. Cold flowing stream at the back of our site... it was so nice that we returned to it a few years later. We did not stay. Rafters come from other campgrounds between Gunnison and Crested Butte by the bus load. Just pick your time there carefully if you don't want to be in the middle of that.212Views0likes0CommentsRe: Anyone regret downsizing to a camper?
We have both a truck camper and a 37ft class A. One to live in and the other to travel in. We have taken the truck camper for 3 six-month trips... 2012, 2014 and last year. It's a 9.5 Host with a slide. Living in a truck camper full time for ONE person would be just fine. For 2 people it can work for about six months. JMHO173Views0likes0CommentsRe: weld broken on the slide - common??
jimh425 wrote: Do you use Happy Jack tiedown mounts? We have four Happy Jack tiedowns ... the turnbuckle kind, two on each side. Nothing inside the bed of the truck. We do have a liner in the truck bed. Here's a link to the time we had to weld the truckbed to the frame... found this when we removed the truck bed to change the fuel filter. This shows the tiedowns... Tie downs713Views0likes0CommentsRe: weld broken on the slide - common??
jimh425 wrote: I'm glad you got a fix that you are happy with. Are you also going to weld it? No, we're not going to weld it. One mod that hubby did was to move the top of tie down so the pressure is on the front edge of the camper and not directly under the corner of the slide. He was concerned that, where it was at, the tie down added stress where the crack appeared. So he moved the tie down to the front corner where the happy jack leg is bolted. Then it extends back to the same place it was always connected to the under frame of the truck.713Views0likes0CommentsRe: weld broken on the slide - common??
Kayteg1 wrote: Love the pictures, especially the last one ;) When I think the fix is too flexible sideways, when it works, it works. For whatever it is worth, I am shopping around for camper with side door and being fixman I don't mind small project that save me money. Run into Lace with "small structural repair" By now we all should know what it is about. Click For Full-Size Image. That looks worse than our problem... It's nice to be educated enough to know what to look for.713Views0likes0CommentsRe: weld broken on the slide - common??
bighatnohorse wrote: Another way to look at is; how could a tree branch that large fall on the camper and NOT cause some damage? Ask the KOA manager if a branch that size could fall on his/her head and not cause some damage? And like a rear-end-collision can cause back pain weeks or months after the event, how can KOA deny any liability in this issue? Frame damage by that tree event could present itself after months of use - due to the frame structure being compromised by the tree limb. KOA has some responsibility in this issue. Koa offered to pay my deductible. Whether they are at fault or not they offered to do that from a few weeks ago when i first contacted them about this broken weld. I'm not complaining about KOA. KOA never denied it was their branch that hit our camper. It's my insurance company that is denying that the branch caused the broken weld. The insurance inspection showed some powder present and they said it was corrosion damage on the aluminum caused by water. They deemed that water had been getting into that area for some time to cause that corrosion. They deemed that the branch did not do visible damage to the roof so that they did not think that the branch caused the broken weld. Hubby has his own plan to fix the slide. If we have someone else do it...it's going to cost a minimum of $6,000. If we do it, it will be a couple of hundred dollars. We plan to just use this camper as a guest house for visitors. We close on a house in 3 weeks. I'm kinda done with RVing. Been full timing since 2005.713Views0likes0Comments
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