Get your 5er jacks up the easy way
Full time RVers Murphy & Gail Horner are members of the Escapees RV Club and have lots of great RV ideas. Murphy modified his 5th wheel landing gear making it much easier to raise. He simply put a long bolt through one of the existing holes and secured it with a retaining nut and washer on one side and a lock-nut on the other. Now he doesn’t have to try to get his fingers under the landing pad in
Balance Your RV Trailer Tires?
Pssst! Wanta stir up a controversy at your next fireside gathering? Ask your fellow fifth-wheeler if he’s balanced his trailer tires. It’s almost like asking what your favorite holding tank chemical is.If informal polling holds true, the majority of fifth-wheel folks probably don’t balance their tires. Their arguments against it? Many have never thought about doing it. Others say their
You Know You’re A Red Neck RVer When You Do This
I was in Little Rock, Arkansas this week enjoying some delicious weather. Arkansas is the only state I know with a city as a National Park. I’m not criticizing just pointing out they do things differently down here. As I was walking the dog through the “trailer park” the other day I came across this example of how things are done differently in Arkansas. I’m not sure how well this works at
Bedroom Slide Out–Noise ‘n Drafts?
OK, so we’re still back in the stone-age. Our fulltime fifth wheel has NO slide outs. Not that we don’t want slide outs–we’re starting to get the cabin fever syndrome, and the distaff side REALLY wants to have room for company to come over. And when our 20 pound cat stretches out on the living room floor, well, there’s just no room for the rest of us to put our feet.So a question that puzzles
