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Nice! My motto has always been - 'you can never have too much truck'... Happy camping!!!


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Serious question. You are set up in a National Forest campground and forgot the eggs. How do you get to a grocery store on Forest Service Roads? The UTV is not street legal. You are in an urban area and you need a hose clamp. How do you get to the hardware store? In some states each county decides if ATV or UTV are legal to drive on roads.

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Nice setup--

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No Rockinbbar, I'm a truck driver now, and know your pain.
I will only do 65 or so, in the right lane.
I won't have to be anywhere, any time soon, and I'm not going to tear my stuff up.
No, didn't win the lottery.
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The 5th wheel, is a 1 owner, used a few times, 2017 model. Like new, nothing wrong with it.
The semi is a 2000 with only 512k miles. The present owner, who is currently out driving it, downsized, and doesn't need such a big truck anymore.
He's currently near me, and is planning on going to Pagosa springs, Co. Thats close, so we may wait til then to do the deal.
Selling my 06 Hummer H2, and my Barrett 99, to help with more cash back in the bank.

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Originally Posted by bobmn
Serious question. You are set up in a National Forest campground and forgot the eggs. How do you get to a grocery store on Forest Service Roads? The UTV is not street legal. You are in an urban area and you need a hose clamp. How do you get to the hardware store? In some states each county decides if ATV or UTV are legal to drive on roads.
That's always been my question when I see a 40' motorhome towing a boat.


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bobmn,
If we are way out, and forgot eggs, we'll do with out.....
The SxS, is for fun, and will have a street legal kit, so we can drive it on the street, if need be. The Volvo, can be driven anytime we want.
The 5er has a built in 5500 onan that runs on gasoline. There is a filling station on the left, rear, side, for filling toys back up. It's 30 gallons, and feeds the onan too.
Built in "safety", doesn't allow the gas station to totally drain the tank, so there is gas left to run the onan.

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Originally Posted by bobmn
Serious question. You are set up in a National Forest campground and forgot the eggs. How do you get to a grocery store on Forest Service Roads? The UTV is not street legal. You are in an urban area and you need a hose clamp. How do you get to the hardware store? In some states each county decides if ATV or UTV are legal to drive on roads.



That shouldn’t present a problem. During our short time as truck drivers, we “bobtailed” all over San Francisco..... no problem with the narrow streets and trolly cars. Though many may not find this possible, a Volvo tractor (class8), has a smaller turn radius that that of a long wheelbase, 4wd pickup truck! memtb


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I see the UTV in the "garage"-how do you get out of the thing?


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I'll have to take the roll cage off. Its 12 bolts. I'm thinking of using the included winch to tie the front down, and crawl over the back to get out, then strap down the rear. The roll cage and roof, can be stored in the garage, or the rear pass through storage.

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Originally Posted by splattermatic
No Rockinbbar, I'm a truck driver now, and know your pain.
I will only do 65 or so, in the right lane.
I won't have to be anywhere, any time soon, and I'm not going to tear my stuff up.

Exactly what I do - maintain 65 in the RH lane and ensure I have more than enough time to get to where I'm goin'... Just this last weekend, we took the trailer to a campground about 50+ miles away. Speed limit on this highway was 70, so just set the cruise on 65 and let everybody pass me who wanted...


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Yep, and wave, with a big smile on your face, as they stare going by !

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Originally Posted by Redneck
Nice! My motto has always been - 'you can never have too much truck'... Happy camping!!!




Well...he's got that one covered!! grin

Sweet set up!


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Are you selling the red Ford with the 7.3?


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Originally Posted by Redneck
Originally Posted by splattermatic
No Rockinbbar, I'm a truck driver now, and know your pain.
I will only do 65 or so, in the right lane.
I won't have to be anywhere, any time soon, and I'm not going to tear my stuff up.

Exactly what I do - maintain 65 in the RH lane and ensure I have more than enough time to get to where I'm goin'... Just this last weekend, we took the trailer to a campground about 50+ miles away. Speed limit on this highway was 70, so just set the cruise on 65 and let everybody pass me who wanted...


I did the same thing last year when I took my MIL's motorhome to FL with the family packed inside. Not familiar with the rig, family inside, constant friggin wind the ENTIRE way south. We took 'er easy and still got there an hour before we predicted.


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That's an awfully nice diesel-powered electricity generator you bought to go with your 5th wheel.

And no, I don;t think it is "too much truck." When I was paid to do so, I would use equipment on the edge of its rating. With a family, I want PUH-LENTY of capacity left over when I hit the road.


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No.
My red Ford is now the dedicated boat puller.
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Very, very nice Splat! My folks have had a Grand Design for a few years and after a few teething issues it's been great. You can't go wrong with having too much truck when you hit the road full time.

We took the 5th wheel up to Pagosa last weekend for a 3-nighter. It was busier than I've ever seen it. I guess folks were tired of being cooped up because they were out in force. If we hadn't have left on Thursday it would have been difficult to find a spot in the national forest campgrounds (since they've eliminated many of the dispersed camping sites). By Friday afternoon everything was totally full and we still saw at least 15 people come through looking for a spot (and we were in the last campground).


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Forgot to mention that with the scattered forest fires in the area, we had plenty of chances to watch these guys putting in some work:

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Lordy, you guys have some beautiful stuff. Very interesting.

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You brought enough truck, nice

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