Speaking of camping and trailers..... have you been showing Franky some love lately? Or is that going to be a winter project?
What do you guys use to camp / live out of your Jeeps?
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All these pros and more are found in hammock camping with a fraction of the weight and bulk.
You know you're a truck driver when......? Yep.
While this is true, I have a hammock tent and I find in CA it's hard to use it. I often go to places with very sparse tree's (or when backpacking above the tree line) and a lot of places don't want you to use them, even with the fancy straps, due to tree damage. It was great on the east coast but since moving out west I've debated selling it more than once..
When I get home from this trip offshore, I plan on adding linear actuators, so I can lower the COG on my trailer during travel and then raise it to annex height for when I find a spot.
Just to make it more complicated, because it can't be any worse than the freaking table on the right in the pic to set up.
Just to make it more complicated, because it can't be any worse than the freaking table on the right in the pic to set up.
Nice bbq! That table is indeed the debil to setup. Before the RV, this was our setup.
This is a tent and stove experiment from a couple years ago. It fits in the Jeep.
I’m a minimalist, so I roll pretty light Jeeping (or camping in general), and typically like going point to point rather than having a base camp (for more than a night or two, anyway). I happily setup/packup my gear every stop - it’s pretty nice to not have a schedule and even then a full setup or tear down takes 5-10 minutes before I can sit and have a beer or be on the road (sans beer ). I find the quick setup/tear down speed argument of the RTT to be a negative and adds to stress I’m leaving behind on a trip.
For the family trips I do plan to build a teardrop style eventually, mostly so my wife will join less begrudgingly (though she is a saint going with me last summer 4mo pregnant with a great attitude). I just want to make it more fun for her so it’s a source of enjoyment instead of obligation.
). I find the quick setup/tear down speed argument of the RTT to be a negative and adds to stress I’m leaving behind on a trip.For the family trips I do plan to build a teardrop style eventually, mostly so my wife will join less begrudgingly (though she is a saint going with me last summer 4mo pregnant with a great attitude). I just want to make it more fun for her so it’s a source of enjoyment instead of obligation.
I haven't found a place I couldn't rig up yet with tree straps or a pair of rock climbing cams.
What setup do you have?
There are a lot of things CA restricts that I wouldn't put up with.
What stove is that? Home brew? Looks good! I have been eyeing up a Snowtrekker Shortwall tent for a couple years now, haven't found a wood stove I like yet.
It started out as the largest ammo can I could find. Similar to the kind I made my center console out of but wider. I forget the caliber size, but it is about 12h x 8 x 18" long. The telescoping pipe is from a WW2 era scout stove. The rest is home made. It's a rocket/afterburner design with baffles and various fresh air intakes that burns the wood gas.
I haven't been able to really learn how to control it yet. One night while burning oak, the stove got out of control. My magnetic thermometer stops at 900°F, then it fell off because steel loses its magnetivity at about 1300°. This was right at my feet. Fortunately, I was using wool blankets, rather than synthetic. That red tent extension is made of Nomex coated in high temp silicone. Also homemade.
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Me too!
Plus my wife can get up and make me sandwich on the way to where ever it is we’re going.
I would have to look, I've had it for probably 8 years. I'm pretty sure it's a Hennessy hammock and then using the ENO atlas attachment system and the snake skins for storage.
Man you just can't beat snake skins for easy/speedy take down and setup. I usually hang my tarp but leave it bundled in the snake skins (just in case). I only drop the tarp down if there is going to be precipitation or a heavy frost/dew. I love those things, probably one of the best upgrades.
I run long Amsteel whoopie slings on each end, use wide tree straps, and climbing rated biners.
Warbonnet Blackbird Hammock w/Superfly tarp.
The nice thing about the superfly is that its basically a full size floating tent around the hammock, if you ever had to go to ground one day you are "covered".
