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    Heated Camp Shower vs. Powered Cooler/Freezer/Fridge

    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.
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    Electric chainsaw recommendations?

    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...
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    Storing eggs

    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.
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    Storing eggs

    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...
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    Azle Texas checking in

    Howdy, from DFW
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    Flat, through window antennae cable? GMRS

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

    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...
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    Anyone in Mexico? Jeep patriot brushguard availability? Check this out for me please.......

    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...
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    Truck bed fridge w/o bed cap?

    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.
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    Anyone in Mexico? Jeep patriot brushguard availability? Check this out for me please.......

    I think I still have an account on there. I was the one with the Jeep wrangler bumper build.
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    What's do you think the most impactful first upgrade is to a rig?

    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...
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    Cancelled Dallas/Ft Worth Texas Area Meetup

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

    Howdy, we’re also in DFW
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    Mosquito repent?

    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.
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    New guy from FL.

    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.
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    Longshot270's build, travel and tinkering thread

    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...
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    Sizing lithium "generators" for my rig (fridge) and trailer.

    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...
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    Howdy All

    Howdy from DFW
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    A good tool to quickly air down your tires that wont break the bank.

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

    Getting lost is a relative term nowadays. I’ve helped people that were lost on a flowing river. There’s up stream and down stream, not sure how you get lost in two dimensions but they were stressing out about not knowing where they were. I’m assuming they thought they passed their end point vehicle.