Tideline77

Eagle Nest State Park , New Mexico park has been remodeled and is very nice, sites are electric only water fill available, no dump station cloudy and rainy and cold weather has us a little wet super nice Vietnam War Memorial Park nearby Remembering all of the men that served and the young men that never came home 🙏

On to Clayton Lake State Park, near Clayton New Mexico first boondocking since we left home April 18 We were enjoying the COE sites at $12.50 per night with power and water gotta practice our energy and water management now Too much rain has been a little depressing, finally saw the sun today

Wild Bills RV and trailer park Boise Oklahoma overnight stop fantastic museum next door do not pass up the museum !!!

I admit I was getting nutty about the ticks, in northern Mississippi I got one on the back of m6 thigh, it was a tiny one about twice the size of a flea. 5he bite spot healed up quickly but they say it can be 30 days before illness symptoms show Alpha Gal disease , Lyme disease, Rocky Mountain spotted fever With Alpha Gal syndrome your immune system reacts and you develop allergies to red meat no beef, no pork i spoke with a local rancher and there is another tick disease that actually kill cattle

Fumble finger post….. sorry

In the Rolla area We went way out in the woods to visit the pioneer cemetery of my ancestors that settled in Phelps County, Mo and visited the house my Great Great Great Grandfather built in 1832. ( permission from the owner ) their house is supposed to be the oldest registered historic home in the State of Missouri I wore the tyvek suit and muck boots for tick bite prevention as this area is crawling with ticks

Heading west in the green Prairie of eastern Oklahoma Following the path of frontier people traveled 225 years ago planning to visit the old historic downtown areas of Muskogee, Wagoner and Pryor Oklahoma day 31, 10 campgrounds so far Flat Rock Creek COE Chouteau, Oklahoma

Dam Site Lake COE near Eureka Springs Arkansas on Beaver Lake

Mill Creek COE , Lampe Mo. is pretty darn nice

The Little Golden Gate Bridge near Eureka Springs, Arkansas 9’5” clearance Rolling through the Ozark Mountains from SW Missouri, Mill Creek COE on Table Rock Lake to Eureka Springs Arkansas Dam Site COE Campground on Beaver Lake Running the backroads we ran into the single wide , 5 ton limit , 9’5” Little Golden Gate Bridge sorry we didn’t get better pictures, on a tight curve with traffic. had to back up about 100 yards 😳😳😳

Question from the peanut gallery did anyone see the need to adjust your tow vehicle ball height higher after adding the Alcan springs and new shocks ? did the upgrade change your ball hitch weight ? lighter ? just trying to anticipate

Looks cool is it the original hull ? Or a new hull ?

The Entrepreneur made twin M 18 battery housings listed on eBay and ESTY would be the cats meow . They must be three D printed plastic if these makers could take that idea one step further and use a short pole to get the mini out of the brush or grass and maybe get a little better sky reception Hope I didn’t derail this thread two much 🙄🙄🙄

Edit AI search shows the APP sleep mode can be set via APP sleep mode is not a complete shutdown but is a low power mode designed to conserve battery use so its sleep mode you want to set on your APP ——————————————————— For sure Need to review the APP to confirm this because my mind and memory are not 100% anymore. Plus I only played with it for 3-4 evenings i can get mine out tomorrow and double check

We just got our mini and activated it from our home base, then switched the subscription to pause so I am not too swift on the operation but I thought I saw the option on the phone APP to turn off the mini via IPhone so I thought it could be turned off by APP without us streaking in our camp site also on ETSY and EBay are some pretty cool offerings that accommodate two batteries and have a small shroud cover that covers the batteries and holds the mini giving the batteries a small amount of weather protection look pretty neat to me

our Ollie has the 390 AH lithionics system and we often camp without power connections Power usage onboard using the inverter is mostly a coffeee pot and and water kettle every morning , we think we are light power users When the mini is deployed away from the camper to get clear sky , Is it a reasonable idea to power our mini with two Milwaukee Forge tool batteries ? we have the batteries in our tool box with a few Milwaukee M18 tools , inflator, impact wrench for tire emergencies rolling out and rolling up a power cord seems like a burden "………….after doing it for 45 years our internet use while traveling is just web surfing and maybe an hour of movie streaming here and there.

Agreed, but... Looking at the specs I see a 3.25" difference (14.5" - 11.25"). It would be 5" to your low-profile Houghton. I promised @Tideline77 measurements which I took yesterday. My son Adam climbed up the scaffolding and place an 8' 1x3" on top of the A/C unit hanging off to the curbside. I measured the height and did not believe the number, so I measured it in the same way off the streetside, same number! I measured exactly 9' 8.5" on BOTH sides! This is great news and thank you for measuring ! 👍🏻👍🏻👍🏻

After struggling to get our F150 dialed in level using the Andersen WD hitch along with RAS suspension upgrade due to excessive suspension squatting we never got things adjusted to our satisfaction I am adding the Bilstein 5100s on the rear of our F150 along with the airlift bags. Will be removing the RAS road active suspension system . With the ball height set correctly we never could overcome the squat on the F150 hoping for a much more enjoyable towing experience once we get it dialed in unfortunate that the RAS didn’t work out on our truck, maybe I can sell the used RAS and recover a little bit of the loss I had understood our 2018 F150 with the factory tow package came with upgraded shocks ( better than stock shocks on F150s without the factory tow package ) but this truck squat is extreme when we lower the bulldog on the ball I do need to go back and refresh my memory on adjusting the Andersen Hitch Andersen Owners manual page 11 covers level trailer and tow vehicle

Will you be making a thread on the installation of the chill cube for those of us that want to follow along ? and once you get it on the roof we would like to know the final increase in height above the stock dometic unit !

Would you share the cost and the online vendor and part number for us ADD folks ?

Don’t know if it is correct or incorrect but I was told Pioneer is owned by Gree

Where did you camp near Telluride or Ouray ? I could spend 10 summers just in Colorado we are itching to get back to Colorado towing our LE II with the itty bitty 2.7 powered F150……….mini mouse Godzilla our particular F150 offers a much more comfortable driving experience with the Andersen hitch

Noted on the 2022 with the 3500 lb capacity axle label to keep an eye on this just greased the suspension and they have a nice arch and only 6000 miles #1218 LE II

Did I understand this right ? The 2022 year models forward are in jeopardy of broken springs ? somehow I had come to the conclusion that they were not ! but I am a little slow keeping up