by kayakrguy » Mon Feb 13, 2006 8:22 pm
Folks,
The great thing about TTT is that you get whacked upside the head when you get ahead of yourself <g> A rapid check of 5x10 trailer weights plus whatever build weight I add soon demonstrated that this would be beyond my Altima's towing capacity 1000lbs and 100lb<tongue weight. So I am back to a 5x8 configuration.
George and Rob have brilliant and beautiful designs--I had seen Rob's before but my Altima's transmission would be gone by the time I got to the corner--and if it didn't go, the brakes soon would <G>. Mike's drawing with the partition would also not work for me because of the same restrictions.
I couldn't get Dale's design up except for his model, so I still don't quite understand how he solved the problem of space in his TTT?
Andrew, John, Kevin and Ira--you gotta know I already said NO to the hot
tub, so I GOTTA do something about the biffy!! The only way I could get the hot tub in is if we used snorkeling gear. But then, no biffy <g>
And, the group seems divided about the 'odour' problem and the liklihood it would be ummmmmm....objectionable. I don't know if there is any single answer to that matter. Personally, I can't smell burning rubber unless it it about 2' away. Fortunately I CAN taste good wine and bourbon!
So, I find myself 'bounced' over to the 'side tent' forum to look at the collective wisdom over there. The missus and I looked a Cablero catalogue we have and they have something called a Trekker Biffy shelter for $69 on page 224 #BG 51-6922. I haven't checked to see if they have it online. An idea we had is that instead of unassembling the shelter, simply roll it up, put it in cabin, take it out and set it up at nixt site. As far as 'on the road' use of biffy goes, the thought is that the biffy would still go in the camper while travelling.have it held in place with bungee cord to two eyelets in the walls (roll mattress out of the way to make room en route.
In emergency along the road, hop in back....
Just thinkin' out loud...
Jim
A disposition to preserve, and an ability to improve, taken together, would be my standard of a statesman...
But what is liberty without wisdom, and without virtue? It is the greatest of all possible evils; for it is folly, vice, and madness, without tuition or restraint.
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