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08-18-2013, 11:09 AM
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Senior Member
Join Date: Jun 2013
Location: Between Pickles Gap and Toad Suck, AR
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Bonking head on awning struts!!!
Grey Wolf 26DBH. When awning extended, and I walk towards the front door, I invariably bump my head (HARD) on the bottom of the front strut holding up the awning. OUCH.
It is like it's invisible or something. Or I'm blind. But it's WAY too low!!!
For now, I've hung a yellow life jacket on the lowest point, so I can better avoid it. I'm VERY tempted to spray paint it BRIGHT ORANGE.
I'm 5'10".........
any ideas????
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08-18-2013, 11:23 AM
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Senior Member
Join Date: Sep 2011
Posts: 111
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A small strip of reflective tape maybe? Football helmets are always an option.
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08-18-2013, 11:25 AM
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Always Learning
Join Date: Nov 2011
Location: Four Corners, FL
Posts: 21,891
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Pool noodle cut length-wise? It's be a bright color and would pad it for when you bonk your head again.
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08-18-2013, 11:28 AM
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Senior Member
Join Date: Jun 2013
Location: Between Pickles Gap and Toad Suck, AR
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Football helmets are all too small to fit my head. Too many brains.
POOL NOODLE!!!! Winner, Winner, Chicken Dinner. Some guy camping next to us last time gave me two!! Woo Hoo.
Thanks! I bet that works.
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08-18-2013, 11:28 AM
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Always Learning
Join Date: Nov 2011
Location: Four Corners, FL
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Quote:
Originally Posted by BandJCarm
Football helmets are all too small to fit my head. Too many brains.
POOL NOODLE!!!! Winner, Winner, Chicken Dinner. Some guy camping next to us last time gave me two!! Woo Hoo.
Thanks! I bet that works. |
You may either need to just cut one slit or actually a chunk out of one, depending on how thick the arms are.
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08-18-2013, 01:40 PM
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Join Date: Jun 2013
Posts: 273
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I've banged my head on ours. First time we camped with the trailer. I banged my had on the awning arm five times, four of those in one day!
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08-18-2013, 01:44 PM
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Senior Member
Join Date: Jan 2013
Location: Ventura
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lol It only took my wife two times !!!
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09-02-2013, 08:30 PM
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Junior Member
Join Date: Jul 2013
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Hubby took skin on top of his bald head off. Patch about 6" in diameter
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09-02-2013, 09:02 PM
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Senior Member
Join Date: Jul 2013
Location: BoCoMo
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This is a manufacture defect. God made man to not be able to look above chest high..... even when something hits him up the side of the head several times. Does the Forest River owners manual have any instructions on this? 
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09-02-2013, 09:14 PM
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Denver, CO
Join Date: Jan 2013
Location: Denver, CO
Posts: 2,102
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My nemesis is the wardrobe slide, which is 3 inches below the top of my head. blood everywhere
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09-03-2013, 08:53 AM
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Senior Member
Join Date: Apr 2008
Posts: 126
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...something else the "government" should fix!
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09-03-2013, 09:08 AM
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Senior Member
Join Date: Jul 2012
Location: TN
Posts: 645
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Sounds like the "government" should require a "Warning Sticker".
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