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  1. Flush and sanitize your water system. Drain and flush the water heater (and inspect/replace the anode if it has one) Inspect all the tires, air them up to recommended pressure (or close to max. I run my trailer tires 5lbs less than max cold.). Check the spare too. Inspect the roof tears/holes and for cracks in the sealant. Re-seal as necessary. Inspect/re-pack the wheel bearings if it has set up a while or a lot of miles since last done. Check/adjust trailer brakes while the wheels are off. Torque the wheel lugnuts to mfr spec. Re-torque after 100-200 miles. Important if you have aliminum wheel. Inspect the suspension for cracks, bent parts or missing bolts. Check battery water levels/top off with distilled water.
  2. ^^^^^^. What he said. You can get one of those adapters at Walmart. Plug an extension cord into a household 120v outlet, plug that adapter into the extension cord, then plug your regular rv power cord into the adapter. Forego the regular extension cord if your trailer power cord will reach by itself. And yes, turn on main rv breaker to allow AC power. Turn off battery isolation switch to allow battery to be charged too (if you have one)
  3. You can use the adapter and an extension cord from a 15a 120V outlet to charge the battery no problem. Most 50A rv converters (ac to dc power supply) take about 5-7A of 120VAC. You can probably run the fridge too off of a 15A outlet. If you have a 20A circuit, you could probably run an air conditioning unit and the convertor at the same time. The chart below is in my rv owners manual and gives some idea of typical loads. You can use this to see what all you can run off a regular extension cord.
  4. von Neumann probe is an excellent band name
  5. Took the camper and kayaks to Village Creek SP last weekend. The SP is pretty small with 25 elec/water sites and another loop with walk-in tent sites. It was just me and the wife and we really just used the camper as a base for kayaking on Village Creek. We had a small site that was mostly asphalt with a couple of decomposed granite tent spots. The picnic table and campfire ring were withing 5' of the trailer. The shower/bath house was fairly new and the park hosts kept it in good shape. We took a ranger lead night hike through an 80 acre area that had been logged and re planted with native long-leaf pine. Ranger said they were trying to establish native cover back in the park areas.
  6. davidg

    Kayaking

    Camped a Village Creek SP this past weekend and took the kayaks for a few paddles on the Village Creek Paddling Trail. Friday we just paddled upriver from the SP takeout site and made a slow trip back down. On Saturday we parked the truck at the Hwy 96 boatramp and got a shuttle from Sharp Canoe Rental. They dropped us off at the Baby Galvez landing and we headed downstream. The upper half of this section is fairly straight with only a couple of small bends but the lower half is crooked as a snake with lots of good sandbars. We had a good time and only had 2 other groups that we leapfrogged with while stopping at the sandbars to hang out and swim a bit. The creek is lined with cypress and pine, the water is fairly clear but stained from leaves and the sandbars are deep white sand. I fished a little bit and was able to catch two small bass which was better than I thought I would do. The last hairpin turn on this section is a big sandbar that is reachable on foot from the Hwy 96 ramp which the locals call the zoo. We went by it at about 4:30pm and it was mostly families but they say it can get pretty rowdy at times.
  7. Spent a bunch of time in shipyards around the world commissioning equipment on drilling rigs and the heavy lift barges never cease to amaze me. Here, let's lift the massive topside module at one time and drop it right into place. That Hyundai 10000 it a 10K ton lift capacity and almost the biggest one out out. At the Kiewit yard in Ingleside, they built at 13K ton shearleg crane just to lift the Thunderhorse topside modules (production, compression, generator) in one lift each. I did an equipment survey on the TH in Korea before it was hauled to Kiewit. IIRC, just the module topside area was about 60 yards by 115 yards. I paced it off and laughed at the thought of a regulation size football field on the top of a semisubmersible. /CSB
  8. Everyone should have a truck, tractor and hole story. Rite of passage type thing. One of mine involved a recently purchased jeep, the previously mention flooded big lake right after if had flooded our property, the little JD350 dozer from the tractor thread and my future wife. Many years later my wife confided in me that if that would have been a first date, there wouldn't have been a second. Nothing builds a relationship like burying a jeep tire deep and wading out of knee deep water and mud and then trying to come-along and dig for an hour or so before walking a mile or so to where your dad is pushing dirt to come pull you out.
  9. It's like y'all have never see a redneck in their native habitat. They teach this kind of shit when they're 5 years old.
  10. It was Arkansas. I figured they brought it to eat.
  11. Beer always rides in the 70qt rtic but when I’m cooking I pull an on-deck and in-the-hole beer from the ice chest and put next to the cooling plate in the mini fridge. Usually have some beer slush by the time I’m ready for them.
  12. Ah, again that sucks. Ice chest it is although I have have a mini fridge in my outdoor kitchen area that I use for cooling drinks. Would press it into food service if my main crapped out. Hope you can find a replacement board easily and it doesn’t cost an arm and a leg.
  13. But you are still using a shitty igloo cooler for a table, but then again that’s pretty awesome in itself
  14. That sucks. Is it a ac/gas absorption fridge or one of the new 12vdc ones?
  15. Fuck me, Longview damn sure isnt nirvana. I guess at some point Komatsu bought that part of LeTourneau?
  16. I had to go back and look but I had watched a few of his videos a month or so back. He catches a lot of big fish around Houston. A lot of stealthy urban fishing in nauseous where you wouldn’t expect to find fish like that
  17. Heavy equipment and boobs? Where is this nirvana?
  18. I'm surprised that the line is as straight as it is. When my grandfather decided he wanted to build the lake, he contacted the Corp of Engineers about building it for soil erosion as a lot of that was going on in that part of the country at that time and the COE said it would cost $15K or more and they would only pay about half. He instead found an old boy that had a D8 cat with a cable operated blade and got him to build it. They set up a 55 gal drum, leveled it off and used a 4' level across the top to sight elevations for the dam. Whole cost was about $3k doing it that way. Yeah, Dad is still hanging in there. He has physically slowed down a whole bunch from even 2 or 3 years ago and dementia is chasing his heels too. I posted a pic of him last week in the tractor thread. He mostly supervises these days, mainly telling me what I'm doing wrong.
  19. As I posted above, I have a need to dig a few holes on our place, but before that happens I'll tell a story on one of my favorite holes on our place and one that I currently hate the most. This took place back in December of 2012. We have a 12 acre lake on our property that was built back in 1952. I grew up coming over to the property, fishing and duck hunting on our little lake and hunting squirrels in our creek bottom (that was about 100 acres of native pecan trees) below the lake. In the '80s, a large reservoir was built and when it filled it flooded that hundred acres of pecan trees. The normal spillway elevation of our little lake is about 16' above the elevation of the big lake. The spillway is constructed of 3 4' joints of 36" dia concrete pipe for the vertical and 12 joints of 24" for the horizontal. The outlet of horizontal pipe falls 4' into a small pool, which then flows down the old creek bed until it hits open water of the big lake. After a good rain and the lake level is up a couple of feet, there will be a 2' dia water jet from the outlet. This water tends to wash the tar between the pipe joints which then started the pipe to crack and the joints to widen. Normally there is some seepage between some of the vertical joints and the pipe always has a trickle of water. But, with it being so dry that fall, the lake level was down 5+' and the pipe was dried up. Dad had wanted to check out the pipe and unknown to the rest of the family had crawled through it a week before to inspect the pipe and see if it needed some repairs. We were up at the place for the opening of duck season and after shooting a few birds that morning dad mentioned he'd like to go see about repairing some spots on the pipe. We got some caulking tar and some mortar mix and headed down in the hole. Dad went down in the hole and into the horizontal. I went down to the bottom of the vertical and my buddy and son mixed up mortar and lowered to me in a bucket and then dad pulled another bucket with a refill back and forth from me. Oh yeah, here's a pic of my Dad when he was done. He turned 80 the following month. Lake and spillway Vertical section Horizontal section, you really can see light at the end of the tunnel old gopher
  20. Pretty much an abbreviated Guy’s Perfect Day joke from 1997.
  21. @G650 What Kubota did you buy?
  22. We have some property. We need to dig a few holes. Consider me subscribed to your newsletter.
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