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I never got around to testing it in higher heat. The rest of the year we were seeing how many different state parks we could camp at. Then the following January upgraded to the Aliner and the batteries got moved into the camper as a second battery bank.

For me, electric fridge is the easy answer. I’m in Texas where I can get a scalding hot shower 9 months out of the year by leaving a shower bag in the sun. Getting a 40qt Iceco gives me the useful space of my old 100qt cooler in a smaller footprint.

I put a 2000 watt inverter in my truck and it’ll run the $40 homelite electric chainsaw from Home Depot no problem with a 100 ft extension cord. I’ve also used the ryobi battery powered chainsaw while actually clearing trees and cutting firewood and was impressed. Both beat doing it by hand if...

My great grandmother said two weeks on the counter was the minimum for good boiled eggs, and hers were the best. She kept them in a thick ceramic dough bowl in a house built many years before electricity was available.

10 days is easy but there’s a lot of conditions that must be met. Eggs fresh from the chicken’s tail end don’t need refrigeration for that amount of time. Just need to be kept above freezing and below cooking. Once they are washed, then they need food safety level refrigeration. On trips where...

Howdy, from DFW

Try it with the original antenna first, it has plenty of cable to run under seats and out vent/wiring/drainage holes.

There’s a few of us that typically meet monthly for dinner in weatherford. Everyone was busy with summer so we decided to skip a few meets and we’ll resume in a month or two. Keep an eye on the rally points. There’s some Facebook groups like cavalry overland that meet every Saturday morning...

Keep an eye on the thread, looks like he installed it already and he’s got people asking. Personally, I wouldn’t trust that kit. I have a vague recollection of the mounting point and if you get into a wreck, it would do more damage than it would help. When I built my bumper, I welded it to the...

Taking out the seat is easy and not permanent. It’s one of the best modifications I did with my truck. Some other advantages are the cooler is in air conditioning when driving so it works less and vibrations in the cab aren’t as bad as in the bed or a trailer.

I think I still have an account on there. I was the one with the Jeep wrangler bumper build.

Comprehensive tool kit, and one cheap enough that if you let somebody borrow something, you aren’t sad when it never comes back. Getting a basic socket, screwdriver, wrench, and pliers set, a good jack, big breaker bar with the basic impact sockets for lug nuts, big pry bar and the basic...

Sounds good, I think we’ll be able to make this one. That last few months have been crazy

Howdy, we’re also in DFW

Thermocell works, we stick with the butane version because the little plastic fuel cells are easy to make refillable. I can’t stand the smell of Off so I use No Natz spray and zote soap for showers and hand washing. I’ve found they work better than Off, they just don’t last as long.

I ran into a guy that has a 4wd maverick and a family of five. They loved taking trips with it. He added a basic lift, all terrains, rack for RTT and locking bed cover. Sounded like fully loaded he was getting 18 mpg on the highway.

Two more trips done with the new Aliner. Out to mother neff state park after hearing it’s a good year for wildflowers. Also found the small water hammer arrestors help smooth out the water pump pulses. Then out to Kickapoo cavern SP to do a little bit of hiking and to watch the bats fly out of...

Since you aren’t running it very long, use the 300hp gas engine with 100+ amp alternator that got you there do the heavy lifting and let batteries carry the light duty fans and chargers. When you pull into camp, plug in the 110v to a big inverter while you set up. Once things are cooled off...

Howdy from DFW

What’s the problem with airing down trailer tires? His situation and experience might support that strategy.