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Post by skin daddio » Mon Jul 14, 2008 8:34 pm

flatlander wrote:I was thoroughly impressed with Gypsie's $12 awning. It's a tarp and the supports are extending paint poles. (He already had the poles.) I really liked how it was high enough that we could walk under it without ducking our heads. And he may even have been hanging a lamp from it at night if I remember correctly.

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right awning there indeed.

me, i like to have dry local newspapers and a sharp axe. if i'm just boondocking, the teapot can wait. my sunroof bus came with a remote control for its radio/cd.. that's extravagance. otoh, we've been traveling without the radio for quite a time - never bothered to hook it up. i could add the magnetic screens i made for the sunroof, if i could remember to camp where there are mosquitos.

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Post by deschutestrout » Sat Jul 19, 2008 9:33 pm

hambone wrote:What about points for "surviving" with less gear? I usually show up at a camp, take out a rug and chair, and watch everybody else set up for an hour while I drink a beer.
Now, now, Bob. Recall...I drink beer with you WHILE I'm setting up...and if it takes me an hour...well, how many beers does that equal? :drunken:
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Post by chitwnvw » Sat Jul 19, 2008 10:02 pm

deschutestrout wrote:
hambone wrote:What about points for "surviving" with less gear? I usually show up at a camp, take out a rug and chair, and watch everybody else set up for an hour while I drink a beer.
Now, now, Bob. Recall...I drink beer with you WHILE I'm setting up...and if it takes me an hour...well, how many beers does that equal? :drunken:
But to Hammie, that's livin' off the land! Yous' da' sucker. :geek:

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Post by deschutestrout » Sat Jul 19, 2008 10:26 pm

chitwnvw wrote:
deschutestrout wrote:
hambone wrote:What about points for "surviving" with less gear? I usually show up at a camp, take out a rug and chair, and watch everybody else set up for an hour while I drink a beer.
Now, now, Bob. Recall...I drink beer with you WHILE I'm setting up...and if it takes me an hour...well, how many beers does that equal? :drunken:
But to Hammie, that's livin' off the land! Yous' da' sucker. :geek:
You got me there. I'll share a beer or six with Hambone any day...even if it's snowin', blowin', rainin', or just plain nice :flower:
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Post by chitwnvw » Sat Jul 19, 2008 11:01 pm

deschutestrout wrote: You got me there. I'll share a beer or six with Hambone any day...even if it's snowin', blowin', rainin', or just plain nice :flower:
As I would with you.

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Post by DjEep » Sun Jul 20, 2008 7:36 pm

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I see your awning and raise you a woodstove.

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Post by chitwnvw » Sun Jul 20, 2008 8:01 pm

Dang, it'll be hard to beat a wood stove.

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Post by pjalau » Sun Jul 20, 2008 9:55 pm

points for the wood stove!

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Post by chitwnvw » Sun Jul 20, 2008 10:08 pm

That's one of those little guys, that you can cart around, right? Do you have a CO monitor in the cabin?

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Post by hambone » Mon Jul 21, 2008 7:14 am

One time I got Colorado in my bus, it took me months to get rid of it. I highly recommend a detector.
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Post by pb24ss » Mon Jul 21, 2008 7:23 pm

i always have the baddest heater at the campground

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Post by DjEep » Mon Jul 21, 2008 9:15 pm

chitwnvw wrote:That's one of those little guys, that you can cart around, right? Do you have a CO monitor in the cabin?
It's just 1/8" steel, weighs about 25 pounds. I've been having trouble finding a good chimney for it. Right now it has one made of b-vent, and the inner pipe is starting to warp from the heat. The smallest stove pipe I've seen is 5 inch, this is 3.

And I'd be more worried about CO while driving the bus. :drunken: Those little wiry donut gaskets on the type1 exhaust last about 12 miles.

Stove is more for ambiance than anything else. Mostly use it with the door open anyway. Come sleepy time, if it's really that cold, we use the coleman cat.
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Post by spiffy » Tue Jul 22, 2008 7:48 am

Hey Gypsie, your wood carrying sling thingy should get mucho points.
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Post by hambone » Tue Jul 22, 2008 8:03 am

Yeah that thing is great I use it alla time.
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Post by static » Tue Jul 22, 2008 9:51 am

DjEep wrote:Those little wiry donut gaskets on the type1 exhaust last about 12 miles.
No shit. (grrr!)

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