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[craig333]

Welcome. Good to have another sacramentan here. Nice rig.

[K6ON]

Hi All,

Got the Grandby mounted late last week. A friend asked if I would help him “open the road” to
his cabin, which is on a private road, about ½ mile from “Chalk Bluff Road” off Hy 20 near Nevada City. We arrived at the locked gate, and just inside I could see the first of what would be six downed trees across the road. After winching three out of the road, and chain-sawing three more we made it to the cabin. As I was unloading the camper, I watched the rear tire of the truck go flat. On investigation we discovered a large chunk of wood stuck right through the sidewall on an almost new Toyo M/T tire. The truck looked kinda sad sitting on the jack, but’s that’s how I spent Friday night..First night in the Grandby and I slept like a log. Saturday morning we loaded the tire in Ted’s Jeep and headed to Les Schwab tire Grass Valley. They replaced the tire with a new one at no cost..way to go Les Schwab. Night two was also spent in the Grandby .All in all, a fun weekend, even having to do a lot of work Looks like I’ll be enjoying the camper
for quite some time.

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[Stan@FourWheel]

hey deltarat


did you have to add any wood under the camper before setting it in the truck bed ?

looks like a really tight fit over the truck cab ?

has it touched the top of the truck cab yet ?



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[John D]

Deltarat, Welcome to the forum. We don’t have a screen door on our camper and have not missed it. Our warmest camp last year was in Snow Canyon near St. George, Utah. It was about 80 degrees when we went to bed and there were lots of mosquitoes. Sleeping with our heads near the boot screens was unsettling, hearing them zinging away only a few inches away. The mosquitoes knew we were there and were determined to get us! Not a one made it inside, but is tested our nerves.

At that point, we were on our way to “Sweet Home Alabama” from Alaska where he had no mosquitoes at all, having arrived on “The Last Frontier” in the latter half of August. I’m no expert, but I think the mosquitoes diminish when it cools enough at night to kill them. Whatever the reason, we had no mosquitoes in Alaska or the Yukon. We found the weather almost perfect for touring and camping in late August and early September. The camp fires at night were nothing short of wonderful.

After returning to Alabama, we read a post on a forum by a person traveling the same Alaska Highway we had been over two weeks before under beautiful blue skies with shirt sleeve evenings, who experienced heavy snow on September 15. It soon melted. Be prepared to sit tight waiting out a storm if the season is late. At the Alaska – Yukon border, we met two camper trailer rigs heading north. Two couples convoying together had been up before during October and were expecting some nice days. The men were in their 70s, both experienced hunters, former road bull dozer driver construction men still wearing their kaki work uniforms … tough old birds … so, consider the source.

You will see other Four Wheel Campers in Alaska. Truck campers are the ticket. Dirt roads head off into “who knows where”. If exploring is your game, the ability to turn around in limited space is very important.

Deltarat, fuel prices in Canada were higher than in the US and it didn’t bother me a minute. -John D

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[Tomas Tierra]

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has it touched the top of the truck cab yet ?
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If it hasn't, it will!

Nice looking rig DR...Shoulda gotten the BFG's!! I've had the tripple sidewall on the BFG's bend a nail away before!

TT

[K6ON]

hey deltarat


did you have to add any wood under the camper before setting it in the truck bed ?

looks like a really tight fit over the truck cab ?

has it touched the top of the truck cab yet ?



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Hi Stan, I did as you suggested earlier and placed a chunk of 5/8 plywood under the camper. The front of the overhang clears the top by 1 1/2 inches. The camper has not hit the top, even on some rough 4X4 trails this weekend. Let me know what you think minimum clearance should be and I'll raise it some more.

By the way, thanks for taking a minute out of your busy day to say Hi on the 22nd, it was a pleasure meeting you.

Thomas Tierra: Those Toyo's are load range "E" 10 ply rated tires..I don't think any tire would have survived what happened to that one.