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You still have to have a awning to sit and or cook under and the frequent flier trips for us old guys are no fun coming down the ladder at night. Pee bottles are great till your light goes out or you drop the thing in your sleeping bag. Dogs have a tough time getting up the ladder too not to mention going back down.
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They were used a bunch when I lived in Australia. The ARB store there had a couple that looked hell for stout.
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You still have to have a awning to sit and or cook under and the frequent flier trips for us old guys are no fun coming down the ladder at night. Pee bottles are great till your light goes out or you drop the thing in your sleeping bag. Dogs have a tough time getting up the ladder too not to mention going back down.
The boogie man is going for the ground-based fools first. The guy in the RTT will have time to get a laser dot on him when all the commotion starts.
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I think the idea of mounting one on top of a trailer is a great idea.
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Mounting one on a trailer would be much better than on the roof. They only weigh a couple hundred lb so it wouldn't take much of a trailer to handle it.
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They were used a bunch when I lived in Australia. The ARB store there had a couple that looked hell for stout. They have some snakes in Australia that are scary bad. I would sleep on the roof too.
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You still have to have a awning to sit and or cook under and the frequent flier trips for us old guys are no fun coming down the ladder at night. Pee bottles are great till your light goes out or you drop the thing in your sleeping bag. Dogs have a tough time getting up the ladder too not to mention going back down.
The boogie man is going for the ground-based fools first. The guy in the RTT will have time to get a laser dot on him when all the commotion starts. Hadn't thought about the boogie man. You're right, we will just pee of the top of the truck.
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And the 'Monsters' that live under the truck at night, makes the ones that live under your bed at home look like pikers....
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That trailer is awesome! Very cool
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Some nice engineering there. Very sanitary !
Got any camp pics ?
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I don't really see any advantage for US use and plenty of disadvantages already mentioned..In brown bear country, they would still be too low to offer any meaningful additional safety...
I like the one mounted on the trailer better, but mostly for the cool factor!
Personally, I like the free standing tents that hook up to the rear of the vehicle..In the military, we used a 9x9 wall tent that coupled to the back of a landy as a company Command Post and I have always thought it would make an excellent semi static hunting set up especially with an additional tarp added as a cooking porch...
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The US army had a tent that attached to the back of an APC. We used the APC's as a radio shack and the tent for a headquarters. The problem was the APC's had gasoline fired heaters that were so noisy that you couldn't hear the radios or each other talking. Those heaters were a complete joke.
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Harv, Can the contents of the trailer be accessed while the tent is pitched?
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Harv, Can the contents of the trailer be accessed while the tent is pitched? Yup, the tent pitches out towards the side with hinges on the trailer lid. Works really good and open it often to get at stuff.
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The US army had a tent that attached to the back of an APC. We used the APC's as a radio shack and the tent for a headquarters. The problem was the APC's had gasoline fired heaters that were so noisy that you couldn't hear the radios or each other talking. Those heaters were a complete joke. At least you had heaters! lol Lets just say the old Landrovers were "character forming"....
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