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10-20-2015, 06:47 AM
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Junior Member
Join Date: Feb 2012
Location: lansing, kansas
Posts: 25
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We keep 3 days of clothes in 5er, and kitchen things and bath room things, we bring it home and plug in to get fridge cool for the next morning, load fresh groceries and we can run away. A great we to let the stresses go. Course I retired Oct.5, it's just the DW who has to get a grip.
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10-20-2015, 05:11 PM
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Senior Member
Join Date: Mar 2014
Location: Watauga, Texas
Posts: 697
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Quote:
Originally Posted by Dabmeb
We love our check list, never have issues with losing it as it's usually right on the counter at home when we return. Lol
Need a list to remember to bring the list.
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X2!!!
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"Happiness? A good meal, a good cigar and a good woman - or a bad woman; it depends on how much happiness you can handle."
George Burns (1896 – 1996)
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10-20-2015, 05:16 PM
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Senior Member
Join Date: Mar 2014
Location: Watauga, Texas
Posts: 697
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We are getting better at actually taking the list and using it. As we get older, ah...more mature...we tend to think we did a task, when we might not have. The 2nd person walk around is a hard and fast rule we use every time; both DW and I have found some things not done inside and out that would have been an issue without the walk around. I do take extra clothes, but not as much as I used to. DW...her side of the closet is packed an creeping over to my side on every trip so I don't have as much room as I used to.
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D_B Travelers - 39 nights in 2018, 58 nights in 2017. [U]1st love: 2014 TT WJ3001w, now 2016 40' FW SOB, 2015 GMC 3500HD CC DRW Duramax, TST 507rv TPMS.
"Happiness? A good meal, a good cigar and a good woman - or a bad woman; it depends on how much happiness you can handle."
George Burns (1896 – 1996)
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10-30-2015, 05:17 AM
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Senior Member
Join Date: Oct 2011
Location: Kingston NY
Posts: 109
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Good tips, we actually have a small check list above the door that we use when closing up the trailer. Concerning your greasy trailer hitch ball. Use Vaseline. It is cheap enough, and is water soluble so it is easy to get out of clothes and off your skin.
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10-31-2015, 05:51 AM
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Senior Member
Join Date: Sep 2015
Posts: 1,022
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Quote:
Originally Posted by paulmac
Concerning your greasy trailer hitch ball. Use Vaseline. It is cheap enough, and is water soluble so it is easy to get out of clothes and off your skin.
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Not a bad idea from the cleanup standpoint. Not so sure it's going to provide the same lubrication properties as an EP grease though.
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10-31-2015, 08:05 PM
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Senior Member
Join Date: Oct 2011
Location: Kingston NY
Posts: 109
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Quote:
Originally Posted by Springerdad
Not a bad idea from the cleanup standpoint. Not so sure it's going to provide the same lubrication properties as an EP grease though.
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Never had a problem, like said it is cheap enough just keep a jar hand and throw some on when you need it. My father in law camped for the better part of 50 years and never used anything else, and never had problem with the ball on the hitch.
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10-31-2015, 08:17 PM
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Senior Member
Join Date: Oct 2011
Location: Kingston NY
Posts: 109
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Quote:
Originally Posted by ColoradoRick
I used to but can't since I installed the big mud flaps to protect Rocky.
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I agree, I never leave the hitch on once the camper is off. I either put it the back of the truck or we actually had thick metal screening welded in and placed between the frame of the tongue up to the battery. So I can place the hitch, and we keep our leveling wood and wheel chocks there. Nice thing as you go down the road any dirt shakes off as you hit bumps and fall the screening.
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10-31-2015, 08:58 PM
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Senior Member
Join Date: Oct 2015
Posts: 2,404
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Quote:
Originally Posted by satdog01
If you do not have a tow ball cover get one, stuff a paper towel in it when not in use. Wally World and TSC carry them. Have seen ones that have a deer head or fish on them. Throw this one as soon as I unhitch, saves the clothes! Wally World has a smaller size that I have seen used on Fiver trailer pins.
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We keep our hitch ball cover in a zip lock Baggie when not in use. Yes, put it on immediately after unhitching. Murphy's Law always kicks in! 😠
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11-20-2015, 12:21 AM
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Member
Join Date: Jul 2015
Posts: 39
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For those of you who like list making, as I do there is a great app for your phone or tablet called color note. You can make several different color coded lists. You can check and uncheck items so when you are done packing or doing a walk around you can uncheck the items and save the list for next time. I have a yellow list for grocery shopping, purple list for trailer packing, green list for walk around, etc
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11-20-2015, 07:23 AM
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Junior Member
Join Date: Jul 2015
Posts: 24
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You guys are greasing your hitch balls? Weird. ...been towing trailers for 40 years and never greased a hitch.
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11-20-2015, 07:37 AM
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"On the road again"
Join Date: Feb 2012
Location: Parker County Texas
Posts: 1,152
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Since we spend at least one week of each month on the road in our fifth wheel, we have
"pre-flight checklists" for the trailer, but also one I have in advance around the house (set home thermostat, hold mail, load medicine, check tire air pressure, load laptop and cameras, etc.). This works so well simply because doing it every single month, the tasks tend to run together and being able to check each item makes certain each item is handled each month.
Then, when we get ready to head out we have our "pre-flight checklist" to make sure the fifth wheel is road ready.
We're not getting forgetful...there's just a lot more to remember than before. :-)
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