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6/8/2023

If you would click a pic a day, all before they go away, you may find your life would be filled with happiness and glee.

All the pictures today are of the peonies.

I said before I wasn't going to talk about the Lances refrigerator anymore, but these are hard times for me trying to find something to write about because there is simply nothing of interest going on in my life at the moment, so for lack of anything better to mention I will say that the Lances refrigerator after I replaced the regulator at the propane tank, has been doing great. It stays between 34 and 38° all day and all night, quickly regains its temperature after I put some groceries in it, and is running as good as any RV refrigerator I've ever had, and I've had quite a few.

My thoughts of what to do when the refrigerator is acting up while running on propane used to be you should clean the propane burner in the refrigerator. But now I'm thinking that if my propane regulator is anywhere near ten years old, I will buy a new one before doing anything else. There only 20 or 30 bucks, easy to find, simple to replace, and could make a difference in all of your propane appliances.

I worked in the Arctic Fox some more this morning, throwing away some things, packing other things to be moved to storage, and putting a few things in the Lance. I have to be careful putting stuff in the Lance since the camper's weight is a big concern for me. As usual RVs tend to gain weight over time, as do their owners.

Dealing with all the stuff in the Arctic Fox seems overwhelming, but it must be done. It would be much easier if I had a neutral party come in and decide what to keep and what to throw away. They would throw out 95% of what's in the Arctic Fox and probably have the whole thing done in a weekend.

Theboondork

4 Comments

KennyD

6/9/2023 09:22:32 am

Have you ever gone to a CAT scales and had your rig weighed? If I was as worried about the weight as you seem to be, that is the first thing I would do. Then, you would have an actual baseline to work from.

Tom

6/9/2023 01:43:43 pm

When I first put the Lance on the truck, my first thought was to weigh the whole rig. I had already weighed just the truck on several occasions, and I knew it weighed approximately 7,300 pounds. So all I needed to do was drive up on a scale and get just that one weight, and a little basic math would tell me almost everything I needed to know.

But since I don't drive by any Cat Scales in my normal travels around Denver, I figured I would weigh it during my winter travels since I'm in truck stops pretty often. But unfortunately, every time I was at a truck stop, my procrastination would kick in, and I would say to myself... I'll just weigh it at the next truck stop. So here I am back in Denver, still not knowing the weight of the camper.

There may be some fear associated with me putting off getting the weight of the camper. I don't see how I can do with any less stuff in the camper since I'm pretty much down to the basics already, and I can't afford a one-ton truck to solve the problem, especially at today's prices. So I figure if I don't weigh the camper, maybe what I don't know won't hurt me, sorta like cartoon characters that run over the cliff but don't fall until they realize they've run over the cliff.... I'm Wile E Coyote.

Tom

OFM

6/9/2023 03:16:38 pm

From what I have heard some pickups have a frame and axle that can handle some rear helper springs to grab a few hundred pounds of load over the original setup only. I do not know if it is really true.

6/9/2023 05:30:06 pm

Yeah, Barney, there's a lot of things you can do to lift up a sagging rear end, not that my rear end is sagging, but if it ever does, helper springs, airbags, Tembren overloads, which I have now, all will lift up the sagging rear. But as far as I know there isn't anything you can do to increase a trucks payload carrying capacity. And because my three-quarter ton truck is a four-wheel-drive, crew cab, diesel, all that stuff is sorta heavy, so its payload capacity is not that great. But the Lance is a fairly light truck camper at a little less than 2000 pounds empty, so I'm hoping my truck can tote the load.

I've talked to a lot of truck camper people lately that are caring loads that would scare me to death, and they don't seem to be having any problems even though some of their rear ends are sagging, and there's nothing worse than a sagging rear end.

Tom

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