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Right on Tommy, it pays to shop around........ if you see one you like copy down the model number on the outside by the man door,
after a while it becomes a blur........
Duane are you gonna wait for a 2016
Originally Posted by cay5628
Thanks Tommy.
We very much like this floor plan in our trailer. We shopped quite a few brands to find the one we wanted. Like someone else said here, take your time and find the right fit.
-Mark
Thanks Mark, Gigger. You guys along with just about everyone else have been very helpful and always give great insight. Thanks again, enjoy the trails.
Ferguson its good to hear that PA is putting full hookups in their campgrounds. My son and I love to hike so that just makes it an easier trip, my wife might come now.
Its the season for getting out the camper, I will be de-winterizing mine next week and I have to make an appointment for state inspection.
We are planning a trip to Florida this winter, Christmas time to be more precise. We are going down to visit our daughter who moved down to Panama City in january, she got a job as a teacher and is doing well. We will be staying at St Andrews State Park which is only 15 minutes from her apartment. I can't wait to do some surf fishing.
Finally got some photos of the new truck with our fifth wheeler hitched up.
We took a short trip south from home to Ocean Mesa RV park, in Goleta, CA, just north of Santa Barbara. Our 2nd time at this place.
The new truck performed flawlessly, well above my expectations. We are both very happy with our choice.
Pulled into the RV camp this past weekend and the guy next to me had to have the mother of all 5ers. Good grief, I told him he did not need a parking permit, but a Zoning modification.
3 wheels down, HUGE back porch and a SIDE porch, it was 45 feet long...wish I had taken a pic of it, it was like pulling alongside a 18 wheeler. IIRC he told me the dry weight was 18k. He did say it giving his Dodge dually a hard time. I suggested he go w/Ford and not have those problems.
I never knew they made them that big, he said it was the biggest thing out there, he is full time, wife and 3 kids under 8 yrs and needed the fold out decks.
In hope of driving my big DRW beast later today. We had storms last Friday night with hail. I had forgotten to pull my truck in the garage until after the storms. So Saturday the truck got a very good cleaning so I could check for hail damage. After which I did the same to the wives Taurus SHO, because I'm a good guy.
We have had rain off and on everyday since my washing the vehicles, so my truck has sat in the garage all nice clean and shiny waiting for the weather to break which is finally has. No rain in forecast for 6 days now.
So today the DRW Beast gets to run the roads and reflect sunshine into the eyes of others around me.
In hope of driving my big DRW beast later today. We had storms last Friday night with hail. I had forgotten to pull my truck in the garage until after the storms. So Saturday the truck got a very good cleaning so I could check for hail damage. After which I did the same to the wives Taurus SHO, because I'm a good guy.
We have had rain off and on everyday since my washing the vehicles, so my truck has sat in the garage all nice clean and shiny waiting for the weather to break which is finally has. No rain in forecast for 6 days now.
So today the DRW Beast gets to run the roads and reflect sunshine into the eyes of others around me.
Oh, by the way the Taurus SHO is filthy now.
JonR, a tip on hail damage: Unless its severe and or malformed if you park outside during the summer the hail damage will all but disappear, in some cases it may take more than one summer. The daytime heat and nighttime cooling with expand and shrink the metal slowly restoring its shape. For the ones left over a quick trip to most grocery store will put some dry ice in your cooler. Break off a corner so you can get a 'point' and use that point to place in the lowest part of the damage and in a small circular motion watch it draw the dent out of you metal hood or what ever.
I was down on my luck and money coming out of a bad divorce, where I gave up everything but the starch in my fatigues. Was stationed at Ft Hood and we had a bad hail storm. Insurance company stepped in and all but totaled my truck. I took the cash, bought new headlights, paid for the windshield to be replaced figured i would live with the dents. After about 3 summers most of the dents were gone, there were still some but nothing like it had been.
Then when one of my soldiers who was getting out and had bought into one of the dent repair franchises told me the trick on dry ice. I tried and sold that truck sans any hail damage
JonR, a tip on hail damage: Unless its severe and or malformed if you park outside during the summer the hail damage will all but disappear, in some cases it may take more than one summer. The daytime heat and nighttime cooling with expand and shrink the metal slowly restoring its shape. For the ones left over a quick trip to most grocery store will put some dry ice in your cooler. Break off a corner so you can get a 'point' and use that point to place in the lowest part of the damage and in a small circular motion watch it draw the dent out of you metal hood or what ever.
I was down on my luck and money coming out of a bad divorce, where I gave up everything but the starch in my fatigues. Was stationed at Ft Hood and we had a bad hail storm. Insurance company stepped in and all but totaled my truck. I took the cash, bought new headlights, paid for the windshield to be replaced figured i would live with the dents. After about 3 summers most of the dents were gone, there were still some but nothing like it had been.
Then when one of my soldiers who was getting out and had bought into one of the dent repair franchises told me the trick on dry ice. I tried and sold that truck sans any hail damage
Thank you Don. I have never heard of that before and it's great to know. I hope I never have to try it out but it's still great to know. I will pass it along to friends....but don't worry, I will give you all the credit, lol. Thanks for sharing.
You are more than welcome Tom. It works best on hood, trunk, top any place that is a smooth surface. Won't pull out where its creased or compound bends, also if the hail is ragged and the dent looks more like it was stabbed with a bad phillips head screwdriver it won't work there.
I love those F450 wheels but dont like the cost of 19.5 tires. Anyone ever try recaps?
I sell 19.5 recaps often. Ran them on my old F450 myself. $150 or $400 for new. Keep in mind when you see the gators on the road, it's usually a new tire. Not a recap...
I went to a seminar a number of years ago for fleet operators. A good recap is often times better than a new tire - much depends on the carcass used. The caps are vulcanized to the carcass the same way new tires are made..
One thing I noticed when I went looking for tires recently though - there is an additional Federal Excise Tax on the 19.5" tires (I was looking at 16's for my trailer and saw the same model in a 19.5")... That was not cheap either!
I went to a seminar a number of years ago for fleet operators. A good recap is often times better than a new tire - much depends on the carcass used. The caps are vulcanized to the carcass the same way new tires are made..
One thing I noticed when I went looking for tires recently though - there is an additional Federal Excise Tax on the 19.5" tires (I was looking at 16's for my trailer and saw the same model in a 19.5")... That was not cheap either!
Remember Bandag, which used some kind of cold process, not sure they are still around???
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