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So another person listed his Honda and I have two. I only need one and am willing to sell the one with the 30amp converter attachment. I would take another Generator to make it work though. I think the video was done last February in Cape Girardeau, MO. I'm in Norman, OK till January and then am pretty sure I will move to Lawton, OK for the rest of winter. Need to be in Iowa the end of May till mid June and then I have a plan to spend the summer in Colorado unless there is a major change. I won't expect to get what I paid for the Generators at a recent HDT Rally, but reasonable offers will be considered. You will have to pay for the shipping if you cannot come to me for a pickup, but we can talk about that. PM me or send an email to lappir1@yahoo.com if you are interested. Rod

I find it interesting a person can propose to be a "Full Time Traveler" but had no license to operate a vehicle. I guess riding a bus to the airport and using taxi services, but how do you travel without something more than a suitcase? Rod

The key is to stay away from the "Advantage Plans". I my mind the only person getting any advantage is the salesperson who convinced you to give them your money. I'm not an expert on insurance at all, but I am a health care provider who is very disgusted with how Health Care has turned into a "Retail Business" and in many ways is no longer Care, but how much can be made from each patient. Pretty soon they will start taking away "Birth Control" methods and slipping in reproduction drugs to make sure everyone has as many babies as possible. Rude way to look at it, but it's not the 1970's anymore. I started as a Volunteer Fire Fighter, then Advanced First Aid, EMT, EMT-Level One, EMT-Paramedic and Finally an RN since 1989. Things were starting down hill then. The ER I worked at went from seeing true emergencies to a Social Gathering place every Friday, Saturday and Sunday. They all said their primary Dr. was the "ER Doctor". When I started in EMS in 1980 every patient I picked up in the Ambulance wanted their personal physician called to meet them at the ER (or they had already talked to the Dr. and were informed to call an ambulance. He or She would meet them there.) Yes health care has made some great strides, we just have to remember it's patient care and not customer care. The Patient is not always right in their expectations and neither are some of the providers. Rod

Some of us don't do FB and only hang out here. Rod

Thanks for the info. My plan is to be there. Rod

Be careful Kirk, you may have hit on their "Trade Secret". Maybe we all just need to get a big box and put all the transponders in there. Of course then you would get double and maybe triple billed if they all triggered with the system. Rod

You will most certainly have issues with driveshaft if you start messing with the leveling arm. When I got my truck the top rubber broke on the way home with it. Did a roadside fix and got the new "Kit" on my arrival home. I don't know why they won't just sell the parts that break and insist on selling everything needed to do a complete replacement. Oh, and you have to cut the steel arm to match what it was..... Anyway, I found a level spot put the new to me truck and trailer together and cut the piece to keep everything level. OOPS, suddenly slowing down there would be a big Bang at times. I'd messed with the drive shaft angle and it put a bind in the U joint. Thankfully nothing ever broke and I had a professional reset the ride height. Rod

I think my trailer is marked incorrectly. Rod

I searched for the information in the title and came up with nothing. I have a small broken reflector at the end of my truck since I haven't yet applied the reflective tape to the end we cut off earlier this year. I have the tape and was all set to apply when I decided to look and see how "Spacecraft" applied the tape. I noticed they have the "Red" on the end facing the front of the vehicle and the "White" at the back. I was thinking I'd put it with the red marking the end would be correct. Am I thinking incorrectly. Googled application of DOT tape, but see nothing to specifically indicate, but I do see the red seemingly marking the end of each trailer in the illustration. Is that what you see too? Rod

Thanks for going the extra mile Kirk. Rod

http://photoposting.is-great.net/?i=1 Try using this link. RV.NET: Photo Upload & Post drag&drop a photo! or Select For JPG, GIF, PNG, BMP, TIFF, or PDF up to 10MB. Photos hosted by IMGUR.com Here is what it looks like. Choose your file and if you are lucky you can just double click on the photo and it will come up with what you see below. RV.NET: Photo Upload & Post Full-Size Photo Delete My Photo Make Clickable To Full-Size Photo? http://photoposting.is-great.net/curved-arrow.gif Copy and paste this code into your post: Drag&Drop Another Photo? or Select For some reason it didn't put the line below in the box above "Drag&Drop Another Photo", but here it is. [IMG]https://i.imgur.com/cY3IFAYl.jpg[/IMG] Remove the [IMG] from before and after by hitting end and back spacing 6, hit home and delete 5 and hit end again then enter. and like magic the full size photo appears. Once you do it a few times muscle memory kicks in and it takes no time at all. Of course if you don't do it for a while you will forget to remove the IMG parts and then you have to think, Why didn't that work? Rod ps Anyone know what's in the photo? rl

Good question Jim and to answer I must say I really don't know. I don't knowingly put contaminated water in my home, but unless you test every site you visit, I guess you never know. Good point on the chlorine needing to stay in the tank. Had not thought of it. I think I will go out and remove my filters and see what happens. Like I said, I usually don't drink from the faucet, but I do rinse after brushing my teeth with that water usually. I fill my drinking water bottles, and make coffee with water purchased from drinking water vendors. Thanks for the comments, questions and suggestions. Rod ps Vern, Haven't found my thermostat yet and it's going to be HOT today here. Have done my outside stuff already and probably won't call you till Thursday after it cools down a bit. rl

I'll keep my "Free" Florida and Kansas Toll transponders. When I go to Colorado I will avoid their toll road like the plague I think it is. Just my opinion. I don't visit many other places that have toll roads, but if I do I think if they offer a service I'd rather pay them than someone who may or many not actually be accepted. Rod Rod

Here is the side view. Front compartment has my Generator riding in there, next area is the ODU for the Mini Split, next is Utilities compartment in front of the axles and finally the two compartments behind the axles. Other side. There is a "Gas Furnace" in the compartment in front of the axle. Hasn't worked since the Mini Split was installed. (nor have I really needed it). Have thought about trying to put a thermostat in the basement to keep it to 40 degrees, but haven't had to do it yet. Maybe this year? Rod Rod

Here is what it looked like when it was new. This is where the electrical panels are. And where the water filters started out. Not fun to change the filters and quite messy. I now have a movable filter rack that will sort of fit in the compartment. It's easier to change the filters on the ground or a table. Rod

Not from the Full Time home on wheels lifestyle though. When I had my home built, I wanted a three housing filter that would filter all water coming into the home. I could fill my tank with filtered water or just filter the "City" water. Well I arrived to pick up my home and found no filters. Had to make a run to the nearest "Home Depot" and picked up what I thought would work and they were installed at the last minute. Fast forward to using said filters. Difficult to get to, made a mess when changing and not in a heated compartment. Over the past 10 years I've tried and tried to find a solution, but having no true heat in any of my "Basement" and my desire to stay where it's below freezing in the winter, I have to come up with a different solution. With the latest cold snap I made sure my tank was full and my electric heater was positioned correctly to keep the pump and hopefully the lines from the tank to the upstairs from freezing. It's worked so far, but my filter system is sitting in the garage until it's warm enough to hook up again to refill. I also don't really like it sitting out in the sun during the summer, so I'm considering just filtering under the kitchen sink for cooking. I have a drinking water dispenser where I fill 3 gallon containers to use for personal consumption from the grocery store bulk dispensers or or the Local HTO Texas Tea location just around the corner here in Norman. I'm pretty sure this winter will be cold for a long time. I don't plan to move from here till spring and the water fill is on the North side of the home where the sun doesn't reach this time of year and won't till middle of next summer. It takes a lot less time to fill the tank without a filter. I realize I'm potentially contaminating my system, but in a walk around the campers many have their hose connected directly to the trailers. There are a few "Softeners" sitting out (Or Were, my neighbor put his inside). In retrospect, I should have insisted my "Full Four Season Home" had a heated and insulated basement area. I may try to retrofit it if I decide to try some of the really cold winter locations I had hoped to visit. Rod

It's helped me a few times. Rod

Will have to determine where I will be after the first of the year before committing to attending. Glad to see it's still being held though. Rod

NO fun for sure. Won't have to worry about four of the trees now eh? Might be time to do a little additional thinning of the forest for home safety. You might get a break on the insurance too. http://photoposting.is-great.net/?i=2 Here's the link I use I think Jack Mayer put it out there for us to use. You might be able to "Drag and Drop" but I use select. I have an old Picasa program where I can "Copy full Path", but here lately I've been able to just find the photo in "Pictures" and double clicking to upload to the RV.NET:Photo Posting (which is what shows in my status bar now). [IMG]https://i.imgur.com/KvQBtHvl.jpg[/IMG] This is what you copy and paste, but then you have to remove the first 5 characters and the last six, to get this. I paste the link, backspace 6, hit home, delete 5 hit end and enter and voila the photo appears. Good luck. The legs looked a lot better when cooked and the toothpicks made it so they didn't fall out of the rack when I moved them from the kitchen to the smoker. First time I dropped half onto the tray. Thankfully I had a tray or they would have hit the ground. One on the first cook wouldn't stay hanging, so it got over cooked lying right on the bottom rack. This time they all stayed in place. Rod

Dave, Don't park under trees and you shouldn't have to worry about it unless you are super unlucky and have a "Tree Magnet" for a home. Rod

Thanks for sharing. Rod

There is a gathering of HDT's out there somewhere. I think there is a FB group that has the location. Rod

Nice looking truck. Good luck with sale. Rod

Wish you would have said something at the rally. Maybe you did and I didn't hear about it. The "New to me " truck in the photo has an unneeded controller mounted on the dash and is still hooked up as far as I know. I have thought about removing it, but just haven't gotten around to it. Not sure what it will take to remove, I guess is keeping me from starting the project. I'm in Norman, OK for a bit. Hopefully today was the last 90 degree day here for a while. I've got things to do when it cools off, for sure. Rod

Kirk, Do you mind if we add places we have stayed to your list? Oskaloosa, IA. Southern Iowa Fair Campground $25 per night or $600 per month. Most are only 30 amp sites with electric only at each spot. $5.00 to use the dump site and a FEW Hydrants are scattered around the grounds and have seen 10 hooked up to one on occasion. Just hope not all want a shower at the same time. Hutchinson, KS. Kansas State Fairgrounds RV Park For the National HDT Rally Full Hookup Sites $24 a night for as long as you stay before/after the rally. Regular are $30 per night or $180/week. Don't see a monthly on their site. Norman, OK. Cleveland County Fairgrounds RV Park. A new section with angle back in sites and several 30amp and a few 50amp sites on either Gravel or asphalt around the edge of a large parking lot. Most with sewer and water (Shared by up to two) $35/night $210/week. Have stayed in these during 2023. All accommodated my HDT, Spacecraft Toyhauler, Jeep and Motorcycle. Kansas State Fairgrounds. Cleveland County Fairgrounds. Southern Iowa Fairgrounds. "Special Site". Got lucky and had all hookups for a few months. Feb to June 2023. Not sure if it will ever happen again. Rod