Recent content by TSL

Dang ! some big rounds there ! Hope you have a splitter ! After two shoulder surgeries I decided I was done with manual splitting of firewood ( apart from kindling and small stuff, or while camping )

yep, I've seen it too a couple times in last couple weeks. I don't have a Sirius subscription, never did, never used the free trial either. But my goodness did they ever bombard me with solicitations to sign up. They stopped eventually. Now it seems they're going to hit me up in the truck...

Finally got to test out my camper trailer / truck combination and found a couple interesting observations about power from the truck via the 7pin. So we had the 3-way fridge running on shore power in the driveway. Unplugged that and switched over to 12V DC for the trip to the campground...

My intent was to weigh each axle individually. The scale was physically just a tiny bit longer than the wheel base of my truck. Do I know for sure that I only ever had one axle on the scale at a time? No, I couldn't swear to that ! For example, might I have had the truck rear axle on the scale...

Hi all. We have a popup / tent trailer we picked up last winter. Finally got it out for a short "maiden voyage" this past weekend to a local campground about an hour away. My previous towing experience is with a small 8x5 utility trailer, so while this thing ( see picture attached ) is small...

I think sheep go through their lives constantly waiting for "the other shoe to drop" ! I did leave the front pass-through window on the smart cap open and hoped for the best they'd have enough air ! ( The cap isn't super air tight anyway, especially around the tailgate )

Our popup camper, in addition to the 3-way absorption fridge, also has a "shoilet", which I consider of no value and would happily remove that and put an ARB or Dometic chest fridge in it's place. ( for eg this one, which claims 3.1Ah power draw ) Better yet, I'd put it on a slide with an...

Not today but within the last couple weeks. Picked up 3 weaned lambs for my small pasture. I would just like to report that getting lamb poop off the factory spray-in bed-lined was absolutely no fun whatsoever :-( Because I have a cap on the bed ( RSI Smartcap in my case ), getting in there with...

Thanks for the input. The pop up is wired as you describe, near as I can tell. I'm still working on the conversion project, so far I've installed the Lithium battery and installed a new power convertor that will charge Li properly ( A Progressive Dynamics 4100 model ). I've wired everything up...

Thanks ! Good input, appreciate it. So in summary I could run wire from the battery to the back of the truck, connect up an Anderson connector, put a breaker on the connection at the truck battery for safety, then have the DC-DC charger in the trailer, with corresponding Anderson connector on...

I book marked this thread and have been coming back to it lately. We have a pop-up camper trailer now ( Somerset Evolution E3 - it's a sort of off-road-ish popup ). anyways, I'm working on converting it to use a Lithium battery and am questioning whether or not I need a DC-DC charger. I don't...

Had a weird thing happen today. Parked the truck last night and just before turning it off, changed the transmission selector from 2WD to 4Auto. Did that because my wife was planning to drive it today on a longer trip for a school field trip, and knowing there would be wet roads I thought it...

BTW, I'm guessing you already know about The MILEPOST ? The mile-by-mile road logs are really something else.

ooooh, this brings back memories ! In 2006 my wife and I did a round trip road trip from Portland area to Alaska. We were ground-tent camping ! Yep, set up tent and broke down every day. I had a sabbatical from work, it turned out we were exactly "40 days and 40 nights" on the road and we...

After letting them do the first fuel filter change ( at ~ 12k miles ) along with the HPFP recall, and paying them $195 labor + $89 for the filter I said to myself , "self, don't do that again ! learn how to change your own fuel filter" !