W2R
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I saw something odd on I-95 today... a truck camper sitting on a 5th wheel flatbed trailer and was chained to the trailer. I'm guessing that someone liked their truck camper, bought a truck that it no longer fit and did some improvising.
I saw something odd on I-95 today... a truck camper sitting on a 5th wheel flatbed trailer and was chained to the trailer. I'm guessing that someone liked their truck camper, bought a truck that it no longer fit and did some improvising.
But there are no grizzlies in Florida. These beasts can be as tall as 8' when they stand up on their hind legs. They are also known to reach up tree trunks to leave claw marks 12' off the ground!We have had black bears all around our RV here in the Florida pan handle on the forgotten coast. No way would I want to be in a tent or pop up.
I took some pictures of mama with two cubs the other evening, but she looked only to be 150 to 200 pounds. Last night we hung our garbage up in a tree about 7 feet off the ground to the bottom of the bag (I am 6'7") and I made jokes about constructing a bear pinata. Well, sure enough this morning all of the garbage was strewn all over and the bottom of the bag was shredded with big claw marks. Milk jug bit in half. I don't think a 150 pound black bear can reach 7+ feet standing up? Daddy might have come sniffing around?
Tent here? Nope.
I have only tented.
Friends of mine have a pop-up and they use to tent a lot, but as they got older than 40, they found the popup was nice.
After a day of hiking around to be able to return to the campsite and sit at a table.
Personally, just having one with a toilet inside would be heaven compared to a tent.
Could be the remaining space on the flatbed is to haul UTVs, motorcycles or similar. Have seen similar setups and it's a way to have some creature comforts with the camper and have the hauling capacity for the extras.
You may have seen an older style 5th wheel camper. A lot of them looked like a truck camper on a trailer and we're much shorter than modern ones.That would be a great idea but this was a short trailer and only the truck camper was on it and it went to the very end of the trailer... took up the whole thing.
It is important - in my opinion - that if one is looking at making an investment in an RV or Travel Trailer whether new or pre-owned, that one do a good deal of research on RVs/Travel Trailers in general and then when shopping and purchasing learn as much as possible about that RV/TT about that particular RV/TT.