Question for all the Professional Campers

[Scrappy Scout]

Ok here it is me and my wife found a pop up camper it is a 1995 Palomino. it is in perfect condition no water marks, no ripped screens, everything works. They even took it in every other year to have the roof rechaulked. It appears to have never leaked at all since they bought it new in 95. It also has new hoses, new tires, new propane tank, new wheel bearings, and new gas lines. We have seen this exact camper at Burlington Camping and travel at a price of $4000.00 to $5000.00 used. We are only paying $1300.00 for it. My question is I am a fairly big guy (heavy set about 350 lbs). I am hopeing that once I get back into the woods it will help me loose more weight. I am worried about the pull out beds I am afraid they will break with my big but up there is this something I need to worry about or am I making things up. I just don’t want to spend all that money and take it out for the first time and have me laying on the ground all hurt 😆 . So if anyone can help me that would be great we are picking it up next Thursday and hope to be camping the weekend after the fourth.

Thanks for any information people can give me

Team Outdoorsman
Kevin

[-cheeto-]

The camper I bought has a rating on the king bed of holding 1000 pounds and we have not had issues and I am over 300 pounds. Would be worth seeing if there is an advertised rating from the manufacturer or dealer.

On a related note, is there anyone out there with a popup or other camper that has a propane hot water heater and knows anything about maintaining them??? We are having a problem with ours. It seems the flame is coming out the air intake which we were told by a neighboring camper at our last stay is bad and can start our camper on fire. Not trying to steal your thread so if anyone has any info or could help, please PM me.

Thanks,

-cheeto-

[Scrappy Scout]

Sure Cheeto ( not steeling my tread LOL) on another note I found out that the bed should hold 8oo lbs. so I think I am good there. Our first trip is July 11th the only site we were able to get was at Rocky Arbor State Park. Does anyone know of any good caches there that we might be able to do. please let me know.

Thanks,
Kevin

[TyeDyeSkyGuy]

If you are staying at Rocky Arbor, you had better call ahead. Last i heard, the park was closed because of the flooding, and I’m not sure if it has reopened.

As for recomending caches in the area, I would recomend all the ones at Rocky Arbor, as well as Mirror Lake. Only, doing a googleEarth search shows there are no caches at Rocky Arbor any longer. 🙁 I wonder what happened? Rocky Arbor is one of the nicests parks we’ve visited here in Wisconsin.

[MikeB]

My family tent camps so no direct experience. However, the pop-ups that I have seen at the campgrounds usually have either a strut that is braced off of the frame or a post or two that is supported on the ground.

The capacity figures should be treated as ultimate loads (the load which causes something to break) — figure a factor of safety of 2 to 2.5 to figure how much load it can really handle. It isn’t that you would necessarily break it — more that you would trash the hinges or brackets prematurely.

Not to get too graphic, but may need to take it easy if you are having, how shall I put it? “quality time”, with your significant other. (Or if you have already spent TOO MUCH quality time with your significant other, don’t let the kids jump around on it, regardless of the load capacity.)

[-cheeto-]

If the camper’s a rockin…

This response is both educational and funnier than heck.

[Scrappy Scout]

i went on line and they show almost all the sites to be reserved for amping i checked the web site and it did not say anything about being closed do i need to call them. and does anyone have cache numbers for the ones in Rocky arbor park i don’t know how to look them up on GC. and with the camper supports my wife is sleeping on the other side due to my rolling around when ever we go camping and she also says i get really warm when i am sleeping outside so she cant sleep next to me due to the heat 😆 😉 😉

[-cheeto-]

by the way, if you are having issues with a propane water heater on a camper, everyone always says “remove the spider webs and other bugs” from the narrow elbow fitting thing. Apparently it’s one of those well-known do-it-yourself fixes. We brought it in to have the dealer do it 🙂

[Crockett3663]

When it comes to Rocky Arbor, all I can tell you is punch in the Wisconsin Dells zip code into GC.com and give each one a look-see to see if any caches are listed in Rocky Arbor.

However, before you go, I would definitely call ahead to find out the status of site availability post-flooding. Other than a few showers here and there, I think pretty much the entire southern half of Wisconsin has dried out enough to resume camping, but you won’t want to drive up there on a whim just to find out that they’re booked solid…or still closed. If they are open, chances are that the only sites still available are the “non-reservable” sites. These are sites that are set aside for drive ups that don’t have reservations…or exactly what you would be considered to be. Unfortunately these sites are most often the least favorable sites, due to their location within the park and their proximity to certain amenities, such as bath/shower houses, main buildings, electricity and/or water, etc. hook ups.

Good luck with both your camping and caching plans; I hope you have a great time.

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