Primitive Archer
Main Discussion Area => Around the Campfire => Topic started by: BearG on April 13, 2012, 11:27:07 am
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Friends as I have posted my camper has a roof leak, and now we found that a u-bolt broke and messed up purge and a tire. So my delima is what should I do.
1) Hillbilly the spring and roof to make the Classic. ( maybe unsafe)
2) hillbilly the roof and spring and Trade it in. (kinda what I'm leaning towards)
3) Put $500.00 or more in repairs for something we are looking to upgrade in less that 12 months anyway.
4) Park It and set up awning and hamock like I use to.
Please put yourself in my shoes and tell me what you would do.
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Bear just my thoughts I'd go on and bite the bullet fix the thing and use it a year or two and get the good out of my dough and then trade it. Ron
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Bear just my thoughts I'd go on and bite the bullet fix the thing and use it a year or two and get the good out of my dough and then trade it. Ron
I would but that bite keeps getting bigger everytime I touch it.
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Trade,Miss Dawn deserves an up grade. ;) :) :)
Pappy
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Trade,Miss Dawn deserves an up grade. ;) :) :)
Pappy
I agree but she is unsure
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let me know what you are going to do.i have a little money stashed back for the trip.i could help out if you are going to fix it.
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I look at all the new tents and gas prices,,,dang,, a roof top rack for gear and cots, team work on set up money in my play fund,, and then I ask myself "am I trying to get away from it all,,,or take it all with me??" I'd travel light! and travel more! worst thing for my camping was I bought a Pop-up! I went from six or eight trips to maybe one! I'm just saying. JeffW
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First tear your clothes, put sack cloth on, sit and have a chicken fit in a heap of ashes, have a good cry and then go watch "Sleepless in Seattle."
After doing the above, no matter what you do will be a lot better >:D
Upgrade...
Cipriano
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I look at all the new tents and gas prices,,,dang,, a roof top rack for gear and cots, team work on set up money in my play fund,, and then I ask myself "am I trying to get away from it all,,,or take it all with me??" I'd travel light! and travel more! worst thing for my camping was I bought a Pop-up! I went from six or eight trips to maybe one! I'm just saying. JeffW
I went up in trips and now the wife goes, not all the time she knows I need that time.
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First tear your clothes, put sack cloth on, sit and have a chicken fit in a heap of ashes, have a good cry and then go watch "Sleepless in Seattle."
After doing the above, no matter what you do will be a lot better >:D
Upgrade...
Cipriano
Kinda like sleepless not ;D
Who the heck knows what we will do.
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let me know what you are going to do.i have a little money stashed back for the trip.i could help out if you are going to fix it.
I do thank you for the offer, but not necessarily if we go that rout I'll just not have much spending money. but I don,t need much anyway.
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Crawl in the cab of the pickup with PatB, just say you drank too much.
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i like Eddies idea.i'll sleep in the truck.i do have a hammock and a tent.what ever you want to do will be fine with me.i will have to buy a cot and a better sleeping bag.the tent stay almost did me in last year.i made it,but just bearly.let me know what you want to do and i will adapt.
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Wouldn't be the first time that happened. ::)
Bear, sometimes things just ain't worth fixin'. Bight the bullet and get a new(or at least another) camper. You(and your wife) will be happier in the long run.
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Crawl in the cab of the pickup with PatB, just say you drank too much.
I was reading this on my phone. When I read what Eddie wrote I laughed out loud so hard it startled my wife. She was sitting next to me. It was a funny moment ;)
I needed a good laugh. Thanks Eddie 8)
Cipriano
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When I shop or pretty much anything in my life I use a 3 strike rule. With that being said here is a camper shopping story. We went to the biggest local R.V. dealer in the area (2nd largest in the world) on the 7th. Saleman told us to start out front, mostly small campers then come find him and he would drive us around back to look at larger ones. Well he took us to the back told us the campers we may want are in 4 rows each having around 25 or 30 campers. He dropped us off and after making a smart remark to my wife about campers being like shoes available in different colors, he left us standing there on our own. So for the next couple of hours we looked in pretty much all of them. Now remember I said 2 hours and never saw him. So we hoofed it back up front, he saw us and came over and asked which one we want to buy? Dawn told him she wanted to also look at the used campers, he rolled his eyes and directed us to them. We looked at them, and then I went back and told him we where going home to think about all the ones we had seen and try to narrow down some what.
So Saturday we went again, we started by looking up at acouple of smaller around 21 footers. Went inside and he came up and asked if we had made up our minds? We told him we wanted to go back and look at 2 in the back. So he said something under his breath about bing busy, and paperwork then told us he would run us out. One thing I left out about Saturday is that it was raining pretty darn good. So out we went, he dropped us off at the first camper and told us where the second should be. He said he would give us around a half hour and come back and check on us. Well after about a hour we wish that we had not left our phones in the truck due to the rain. Everytime it would slack up we would move closer to the end wear we hoped we would be able to stop someone to get a ride or a message to get us picked up. We ended up soaked to the bone. I finally was able to get a guy on a fork truck to go back and get some one to get us.
Although we where kinda upset about what had just happened, we had it narrowed down to two campers. We asked if we could use a computer to compare the two and make up our minds, on that and just to check if we had seen all them. The salesman put us at his desk dripping wet as we were, and then disappeared again. Now I have heard of no haggle sales but no help sales suckes. After about 45 min. he shows back up with some other customers and tells us, he needs his desk that these people actually want to buy a camper.
For me that was strike 2 just for the day, even know he had more than that. I guess we wear kinda shocked and just stood up and moved away, while waiting we decided on one we wanted, so when he finish we told told him that they weren't the only ones that wanted to buy a camper. So we started the paperwork, I had already talked to him on Friday about using our old camper as a trade, He told me not to bring it on Sat. that it didn't need to be there to give us a appraisal. So he took the info on it walked over to another guy, and a minute later came back with his offer. $400.00 YES I SAID $400.00 to which I said I bet you would give Me $400.00. Then he started telling me that they had to make money, I told him forget the trade just write it up and continue, but he just kept running his mouth! SO STRIKE 3
Now I guess I'm going to go ahead and fix our $400.00 98 toy hauler and use one more year.
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Your a great guy Bear, but you may not sleep next to Angie. ;)
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Your a great guy Bear, but you may not sleep next to Angie. ;)
>:D >:( O:) Dang it
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Bear for what it's worth you are not alone, I am a magnet for bad service, no service smart mouth sales folks and so on I have told more than my share of the where to go and what to do when they get there. Good luck brother look forward to seeing you in a couple of weeks. Ronnie
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you did the right thing Bear.i would have blown a gasket on that guy.if you need some help on paying for the repair,let me know.i have saved up a little money for the trip.
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Well bear I know how you ar feeling my popup has blown a hole in the tent not to long ago I burnt a spindle out at 3am driving home never knew she went. after redoing the axel my tent goes :( I can afford a new camper. It seems cheaper to just get a tent and sleep on the ground ATM. it mite be cheaper for you just this time to Get a tent so you can save the money and buy a nice camper for next time
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Steve I thank you for the offer but that s ok. We need to get together and get some of your stuff over and loaded before next Friday. Camper should be back at my place by early next week. Got the axle off last night but the new one was to short, right on will be here today. If you know anyone that fills propane my tanks need to be filled but are expired, so if you have a in on that would save me some money. I still need to address the battries and the roof leak but not that big of a deal at least I hope not.
Sky I'm to fat and getting to hard to get up off the groud for me to tent camp. We will get a new one for sure by next year, the wife is on board with it. She felt rushed and it is a big investment for sure. I just have to keep her in check on wieght of the campers she picks, can't afforde a camper and a truck payment. ;D
Plus most of the ones she wants are over 28' and I didn't want to go over that mark. Gets alittle to hard to put in to some spot at camp grounds. But she is already startin gto show me campers that would make us both happy.
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Bear, you are truly a patient guy, myself an the salesman would have probably rolling around in the dirt an I'm pretty sure I would be in jail for putting a tanning on him or vice versea. I was always told it's a piss poor hide that can't take a tanning. :o I guess this is why I'm still sleeping on the ground in a 2 man backpackers tent. I'm only 63 so I figure I probably got at least a few more years before I get a luxury real tent an cot, ;D See ya in a couple weeks an let Seabass sleep on the leaky side. :( Later Bob
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Well the leak is on his side. >:D He is going to get a good tarp today and is going to bring his boat battries, and propane tank to help me save a little money. ;D Just need to get thru this trip for sure and maybe July shoot, I will talk with a couple of the guys down there to see if the wife and I can bunk in their camper. Maybe Mayo or King Ron will hook us up. Anyway a few more little things left to do to the camper, and get my food and beer this weekend. Seabass is going to stop by with some of his stuff next week so we will not need to mess with loading it next Friday morning. I want to get an early start it takes longer to get there pulling a camper thats for sure.
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Hey Bear if you run short on propane let me know I'll have three tanks and probably won't use but one. Ron
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Hey Bear if you run short on propane let me know I'll have three tanks and probably won't use but one. Ron
I may take you up on the offer but should be good. Hey I'm bring my cooker to do greens you want my to bring my fry pot to?
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What the heck I'm bringing mine but I ain't getting into it like we did last year my but was beat when that was all over with. Ron
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Bear,i bought two tarps today and i am working on the batteries.i need to know if grill propane tanks will work on your camper.if they will i'll get us a couple.btw thanks guys for tring to put me on the leaky side of the camper.i have a rain suit ;D
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Bear,i bought two tarps today and i am working on the batteries.i need to know if grill propane tanks will work on your camper.if they will i'll get us a couple.btw thanks guys for tring to put me on the leaky side of the camper.i have a rain suit ;D
need to have internal treads. One should be good.
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Hey Seabass, I take it you have never seen how it rains at the classic, :o may as well leave that rain coat at home, you need something like a wet suit ;D I swear someone was pressure washing the tent for 12 hrs straight, I'm old an seen alot of rains but i've never seen anything like the 13 yr classic rain, fish with life preservers on, I still had a great time an every year just gets better, See ya in 2 weeks or less. Later Bob
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Bob,i have seen the rain down there.hopefully it will be nice and sunny this year.i have been down twice and it has rained some both times.i don't care if it rains this time,i am still gonna have a good time.see you there.
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Bear,i think the grill tanks will work.gonna grab a couple tonight from my uncle and get them filled this week.see you soon.
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got two tanks Bear and will have them filled after work.buying a battery charger also so we should be good on those.
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Mickey Mouse rig the U bolt, park it on the side of a somewhat busy road, in a somewhat nefarious part of town and wait for it to be stolen, then call your insurance agent, tell him, you had a flat, and came back and it was gone! :o Get the insurance money, go buy a better one, and go to the Classic in style! And then you can sit in your dry comfortable camper, while every one else crowds under the shop cover, and stares with envy in your direction!
Or if the horror stories of the rain deluges are true, then get a life raft with the tent on it, and you will be set. Just put a long rope on the anchor, and you can float down to the shed, and get something to eat, and a few beers, and then pull yourself back up to your camping spot. ;) Pretty simple when you think about it. I think a lot. Sometimes I think I can knapp an arrow head out of a good piece of rock, and then think, why did I try to make an arrow head out of a GOOD piece of rock, when I now have a pile of good rock rubble. :P Then I think I will try to make my own arc welder...... ::) Well anyway, good luck, and sometimes it is cheaper in the long run to just call the hook, and send it to the bone yard. As for money, at the Classic, when get there,you could always, spend one night in the truck, and then get hush money ;)...... But that might back fire, as "YOU" might be paying hush money. :-* :o :P You have to be careful around them mountain folk. ;) Sometimes they can be one step ahead of you, and adapt. ;) Especially if you are from the city. ;) Good luck with your decision.
Wayne
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I usually make it a rule never to buy from the largest or smallest dealers for anythiong. You either get great selection and poor service or great service and less selection. I always try for the midsize dealers.They're generaly hungery enough to make good deals , have pretty good service and can get what you want most times if the dont have it already
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Well I pulled it home last night, backed into driveway hopped out and saw the left front tire was rubbing. Brought it back to work this morning, all we can think is that the springs are getting weak and at the angle of my drive it let it rub. Scuffed the tire but no damage was done. So maybe just say a little travlers prayer for Seabass and I on Thursdat night. Because Friday early we will hit the road.
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Good luck bear I'll send the force to be with you. Ron
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Is it rubbing the inside or outside,if it is the inside the Axel has probably bent over years of loads,take the heavy stuff out and put it in the truck,or have them chain down the axle on both out side spindles and jack the middle,use to do that all the time on car haulers. :)
Pappy