I thought I had viewed all your videos since I had discovered your blog last year. Last night your Crow video popped up and I felt as though it was a gift. Then this morning this video was waiting for me. S.P., your nature videos and the narrative you add along side them give the soul such peaceful and calm feelings. Canada has such beautiful spaces. My husband and I did quite a few adventurous trips up there over the years and we were always blown away at the beauty of the land and kindness of her people. He is gone now, but these last two videos, even though 3 hrs old, have put the bug in me to head north to do some adventuring in Alberta this summer. (🤞🤞 the border will be open,) Thank you for your beautiful videos and inspiration S.P.
Another beautiful video on par with National Geographic documentaries . . . but to me it's even better because you're talking directly to us as if we're there with you. Thanks, Mr. Slim for your hard work in bringing us such professional, inspiring works of art and nature. Stay free and safe travels . . .
Slim, EXCEPTIONAL!! Your finesse with the camera is amazing. The sun, snow & your photography...wow. what a feast for the senses. Every video is better than the last one, if that's possible. Thank you for your sacrifice, time & level of outstanding content. It's always a joy.
Quite a few years back, I and my late wife camped at Dinosaur Park (in the summer!). When I was watching this video, that scene at 0:14 (particularly the wooden shelter and the cliff formation just behind it) seemed rather familiar. I got down the old photo albums (didn't get a digital camera until much later) and sure enough, I had taken a shot of our dark blue Nissan 1/4 ton parked there (and nearly the same camera position as well).
Hello Slim Potatohead, I have watched a number of your videos and I have to say I'm very impressed. You are an excellent videographer! Your focus and approach to the activity of RV camping is the best example I've ever seen. You exemplify what it's really all about. Thank you for your contribution to everyone who is fortunate enough to see your work.
We visited this park a couple of years ago after attending a family reunion in Pincher Creek. Absolutely loved it! We even got to be in attendance during a huge downpour which flooded all the run off ditches and added to our enjoyment. Maybe not so much all the people in tents who got drenched, but we were snug and cozy in our trailer, and very thankful for it.-Sue
Once again Mr. Potatohead, a very enjoyable video offering. I have also had the opportunity to be the lone camper in a few camping spots and I definitely do not have a problem with it, you know, "the lack of sound was deafening"! You captured a nice little smorgasbord of wildlife for us to enjoy, and seeing any badlands area is always a treat for me. Nicely done, Canuck.
Another great video. Great music. I thank you for the years of pleasure you have given. It is great you let us tag along and see so much beauty in nature. Thank you!!!
wow! you are an amazing photographer!! And I love your stories! Thinking about it, you are so good you could work for NatGeo! I felt like I was watching one of their documentaries! I always love your videos...
Steven V Agreed... all of Slims uploads are very educational, relaxing and interesting... I guess there’s a few people that don’t appreciate the efforts others make..
These are all so well made. Thank you for taking the time to tell these stories and take us on these journeys. Even my 6 and 4-year-old boys love to watch them with me!
Wow Absolutely Stunning place !!! Love the snow blanketing the mountains!!! The other advantage of winter camping the food dosen't go bad as easily and its enjoyable to cook in a warm fire Whether you are in or out !!! The Tranquillity is Priceless !!! Bravo so funn to learn about new place s through ur vids !!! Enjoy and be safe always !!!🗻💙🏞🚐🏕👏
I very much enjoy your videos, and I also enjoy winter camping. Campgrounds here in Colorado are much easier to book compared to the busy summer season. Best wishes for your future adventures!! John
Love your videos . I started to watch your videos yesterday and keep them going one right after another ...You are amazing how you use the camera ..Thank you for showing how to fix ,repair and buy the things we need for our adventures soon ...Keep them coming I so enjoy your talent and the beautiful country we all live in ....Janice
Mr. Potatohead, as I will refer to you until we meet in person. I have watched a fair amount of you video work, and I must say that you have outdone yourself. A true class artist you are with the stories and your travel humour. Keep it up.
I have been going back through your videos. Always informative and entertaining! Looking forward to exploring Canada with my Canadian spouse! I had no idea there were cacti in Alberta.
Hi Timothy. I use a 2007 Jeep Liberty. Why? It fit my budget. I get around 15 or 16 mpg towing with going at or close to the speed limit. I confess little knowledge of towing vehicle so am not planning a video. It has worked well for me though! Thanks, SP
Hi Slim...Tom Hamp here again... Have always been puzzled by your ability to camp at below-freezing temperatures and seeming to stay warm. In this current video, you do not seem to use electrical hookup. I have been advised not to let my batteries get below freezing as they can become damaged (particularly if below 50% charge). Please, how do you manage to keep the furnace going (if that’s what you do...) Great vid as always...you are producing some wonderful material here, sir!
Hi Tom, That video was actually part of a trilogy: "A Fireside Chat on Winter Camping": ua-cam.com/video/mq-bTwy94J0/v-deo.html and "A Buddy for the Cold": ua-cam.com/video/81HLSv5Af-w/v-deo.html Those will explain the heat sources. Thanks! SP
Alberta uses more gravel than salt. In the US however the eastern states use it very aggressively. I generally find that wherever I go in the winter I make sure I wash off the trailer immediately after any winter driving. Last year the amount of corrosion was terrible!
Nice episode, I would recommend reading or downloading the audio book of "Touching the Wild" by Joe Hutto on Mule Deer... Excellent book and good insight of these magnificent animals...
Did you notice the small animal scamper in the lower right side of the frame at about the 9:11 mark? Probably a rabbit. I couldn't tell. Thanks for the great video
SP - I came across some of your videos and have been hooked. The contents are very good and I really enjoy the scenery. Are you a full-time RVer? Thumbs up......
Hey Slim, catching up on your videos. Where do you get your music? Or do you create it yourself? It always seems very appropriate and varies, unlike some other channels. Love it. Although winter camping is not for me, (yet), I do love to see how you make it happen! Question, how do you keep vegetables fresh on your travels? Or do you visit a grocery every few days?
Hi James, the music comes from various sources, but lately it is mostly from the UA-cam music library. Copyright issues of course limit the options. Keeping veggies fresh was a big problem until I got the Alpicool fridge. Now I can actually keep lettuce, dairy and protein like a home fridge, without a drain on my batteries. Living in luxury now! SP
I'm curious how the Aliner tracks in the snow. I've thought about taking my Alite to Eastern Oregon during the winter but I'm not sure how the trailer would do with the PNW icy snow we get. Wet snow and then it freezes. My AWD Mazda with snow tires does well, but I'm not sure about the Alite trailer radial tires.
Hi Eric, I've not had any issues with my Aliner in winter. I have good gripping tires on my Jeep and use 4WD always on snow. The trailer adds weight, but it has never swayed although I drive very cautiously. Steep hills are always my biggest concern, as I don't have brakes on the trailer. Thanks!
I’d be nervous to be out hiking alone in a place with coyotes, because of what happened to the hiker who was killed by coyotes on the Cabot Trail in Cape Breton.
That unfortunate incident was an attack by CoyWolves (a mix of Coyote and Wolf). I saw a documentary about it and a couple captured some photos of them about 1/2 hour before the woman was attacked. They were larger than normal coyotes using the predatory skills of the wolf and very nasty animals.
ScubaStevee62 I’m from those parts and such events do occur, but are off the charts rare. Nonetheless, precautions must be taken as we are just visitors
Awesome video my fellow albertan! I just bought an A frame trailer myself and can't wait to go winter camping with it. Your channel is a great resource for first time A frame trailer owners! By the way when the music started playing at the 3:49 mark I though it was the theme music from Bruce Lee's Enter the Dragon! :)
Hi fil79, Glad you like my videos. Hey, you're a great guitarist! If you have some background music you'd like to share let me know. I was looking for funky 70's suspense music for the coyote part, it was "The Chase" by Topher Mohr and Alex Elana. Good to hear you have an A-frame. Now get out and enjoy it! Slim
Slim Potatohead thanks Slim! I can send you the mp3 file of me playing Romanza on classical guitar, it would make for a nice background music! Just let me know how you want me to send it to you and it will be done my friend! :)
Awesome video, very well done. It's cay-yote, not cay-yoo-tee in the West....Just saying. You need to get your Ham Radio license and join us on Parks on the Air.......POTA and activate the parks in Canada. You planning on coming down Stateside this Winter?.......Always enjoy your very well done videos of where ever you land. 75 and shorts weather in the SW near Vegas today.........😎✌😁
But didn't they have Wile E. Coy-YO-tee cartoons in the West?!? Or listen to fellow Canuck Joni Mitchell's "Coyote"?. Yes, the warmer climate is calling me. Should be "on the fine white lines of the freeway" heading south shortly!
Hi, a request. is in true? ....When you throw [boilingwater] into the air, the hotwater forms into hot droplets. Extremely cold temperatures quicklyfreeze the water dropwhich fall as ice crystals.... appreciate you doing this for us.
Hi Brian, that`s a New Year project. Need to fit a bike rack, upgrade my solar array and move my tongue battery to the inside first. The list never ends!
There is no structural strength in an Aliner roof panel, its just Filon (Fibreglass panel) or aluminum on the top, Seaboard on the bottom and foam in the middle. I would not be putting any weight on it. At the start of the video you put your body weight (your knee) on rear roof panel to clean the solar panel and I cringed! When doing any roof work on an Aliner ensure all weight is on the extrusions on the sides of the panel. The older Aliner's have aluminum skin and not Filon, and these roofs are actually weaker because the glues don't bond well to the aluminum. I used to live in Calgary, and love that area!
The first five used Aliner's and Chalets that I looked at here in Ontario all had warped roofs and the reason is that they were stored with the roof in the closed position over winter and the snow load caused that warping. I don't think Aliner stresses strongly enough that these trailers have to stored outdoors with the roofs erected in snowy areas. I am in Sault Ste Marie, Ontario and the snowload on my Aliner would have been perhaps more than 2,000 lbs last winter had the roof been closed (the snowbanks on either side of my driveway hit 8 feet in height). However I store my Aliner erected with the high wind harness connected, so I get no more than in thin layer of ice and snow on it. I have also come across Aliners with damaged roofs on my travels through the US southwest (Utah/Arizona/Colorado/Wyoming). What I often see is delamination of the layers of the roof due to some modification gone wrong. The sixth Aliner that I looked at is the one I purchased, an optioned up 2008 Scout that had what I wanted and did not have what I did not want, specifically it did not have the air conditioner, holding tank or water heater.
Nothing wussy about camping in winter. Its just beautiful!❤😊
I loved the 1970s cop caper music for the coyote sequence
I thought I had viewed all your videos since I had discovered your blog last year. Last night your Crow video popped up and I felt as though it was a gift. Then this morning this video was waiting for me.
S.P., your nature videos and the narrative you add along side them give the soul such peaceful and calm feelings.
Canada has such beautiful spaces. My husband and I did quite a few adventurous trips up there over the years and we were always blown away at the beauty of the land and kindness of her people. He is gone now, but these last two videos, even though 3 hrs old, have put the bug in me to head north to do some adventuring in Alberta this summer. (🤞🤞 the border will be open,)
Thank you for your beautiful videos and inspiration S.P.
I love looking at the hoarfrost on the plants and leaves, so lovely. It certainly sounded like a coyote to me. Thank you.
thank you for taking me places I could not go myself!
Another beautiful video on par with National Geographic documentaries . . . but to me it's even better because you're talking directly to us as if we're there with you. Thanks, Mr. Slim for your hard work in bringing us such professional, inspiring works of art and nature. Stay free and safe travels . . .
Thanks Tsuki, always appreciated!
Oh Slim, your photography is so stunning, the frosted limbs was exactly what I needed to see. Thank you!
Awesome video in all regards. 100% that was a coyote. Wolf is way deeper!
All thumbs are up for you Slim. You are my no. 1 for nominations for awards. Great works.
Thank you for taking me to a wonderful place that I cannot experience on my own. Love your little shows!
Slim, EXCEPTIONAL!! Your finesse with the camera is amazing. The sun, snow & your photography...wow. what a feast for the senses. Every video is better than the last one, if that's possible. Thank you for your sacrifice, time & level of outstanding content. It's always a joy.
I also enjoyed your getaway, Slim, thank you.
3:50
I love the soundtrack.... reminds me of old 70's cop shows.
This was just beautiful ~ thank you for sharing your time, talent, and the way we can all appreciate this wonderful world. ~ Maria
you are exellent mr canadian, never grow tired watching your adventures….
Best time in winter, no bugs. My family and I have trekked most of that land. I love ALBERTA badlands in winter, more so than summer. And, no fire ban
Quite a few years back, I and my late wife camped at Dinosaur Park (in the summer!). When I was watching this video, that scene at 0:14 (particularly the wooden shelter and the cliff formation just behind it) seemed rather familiar. I got down the old photo albums (didn't get a digital camera until much later) and sure enough, I had taken a shot of our dark blue Nissan 1/4 ton parked there (and nearly the same camera position as well).
Very nice video, Slim! Thanks for sharing with all of us!
Hello Slim Potatohead,
I have watched a number of your videos and I have to say I'm very impressed.
You are an excellent videographer!
Your focus and approach to the activity of RV camping is the best example I've ever seen.
You exemplify what it's really all about.
Thank you for your contribution to everyone who is fortunate enough to see your work.
That is straight up a coyote from the last video. Yip yip!
We visited this park a couple of years ago after attending a family reunion in Pincher Creek. Absolutely loved it! We even got to be in attendance during a huge downpour which flooded all the run off ditches and added to our enjoyment. Maybe not so much all the people in tents who got drenched, but we were snug and cozy in our trailer, and very thankful for it.-Sue
Once again Mr. Potatohead, a very enjoyable video offering. I have also had the opportunity to be the lone camper in a few camping spots and I definitely do not have a problem with it, you know, "the lack of sound was deafening"! You captured a nice little smorgasbord of wildlife for us to enjoy, and seeing any badlands area is always a treat for me. Nicely done, Canuck.
Another great video. Great music.
I thank you for the years of pleasure you have given. It is great you let us tag along and see so much beauty in nature. Thank you!!!
Enjoy your videos immensely! This one obviously took a lot of meticulous work to produce. Thanks for taking the time to share your adventures!
Really good video as always man. The vastness of nature and the coziness of the Aliner. 👍
wow! you are an amazing photographer!! And I love your stories! Thinking about it, you are so good you could work for NatGeo! I felt like I was watching one of their documentaries! I always love your videos...
Thanks Celine! I know these kind of videos aren't very popular, but I get more enjoyment out of making them!
Dittos. Celine has great taste. Slim, more videos please.
Beautiful Winter Wonderland!
U have fascinating travel videos Slim thanks a lot for sharing! Take care and continue to enjoy your travels
Who in their right mind would give this a thumbs down?
Steven V Agreed... all of Slims uploads are very educational, relaxing and interesting... I guess there’s a few people that don’t appreciate the efforts others make..
Yep, I was wondering which two "cretins" gave this vid a thumbs down! Maybe they don't like winter camping?
I guess some guys like to STAND OUT 😅 cause no one would hate such GOLD content on UA-cam
It’s so cool to see the Canadian parks. Thank you!
Beautiful spot!
Thanks Slim !
Absolutely brilliant...........thank you!!
I cannot recommend your videos enough. Thank you for making them!
These are all so well made. Thank you for taking the time to tell these stories and take us on these journeys. Even my 6 and 4-year-old boys love to watch them with me!
Dino PP is my favorite park in Alberta. Stayed there many times in the summer months. I think your noisy neighbor is none other than Old Man Coyote.
Absolutely breathtaking! Thanks for catching nature at it's finest!
Wow Absolutely Stunning place !!! Love the snow blanketing the mountains!!! The other advantage of winter camping the food dosen't go bad as easily and its enjoyable to cook in a warm fire Whether you are in or out !!! The Tranquillity is Priceless !!! Bravo so funn to learn about new place s through ur vids !!! Enjoy and be safe always !!!🗻💙🏞🚐🏕👏
Definitely the howl of a coyote. Living in the desert, I hear them all the time.
Now that is the way I like to enjoy cold weather and snow...from my comfortable arm chair with my feet kicked up!
Very nice, Slim. Looks like a beautiful spot in winter.
Beautiful scenery.
Awesome Video Slim! Love seeing the Canadian backcountry.
Awesome video editing, as always! Love your vids, Slim!
What a beautiful area. You did this video up perfectly. Very interesting. Thanks for taking us along. 👍👍
Ahh another Canadian who knows the value of the handyman's secret weapon...
What a wonderful place to camp, really lovely. Thank you for the great video.
wow! great video, I love backpacking in winter. I have yet to take my vintage van out in the salt and snow.
It's been years since I've seen snow, i miss it..
Hi Slim, I was a little worried when you were on your walk that the Coyote would take an interest in you. Very beautiful Park
Well done. Beautiful spot.
Although I don't like the cold, this video is refreshing, being in Florida in June. Thanks for all you do.
I very much enjoy your videos, and I also enjoy winter camping. Campgrounds here in Colorado are much easier to book compared to the busy summer season. Best wishes for your future adventures!! John
Wonderful video, great choice of music. Always enjoy your adventures...
Love your videos . I started to watch your videos yesterday and keep them going one right after another ...You are amazing how you use the camera ..Thank you for showing how to fix ,repair and buy the things we need for our adventures soon ...Keep them coming I so enjoy your talent and the beautiful country we all live in ....Janice
Mr. Potatohead, as I will refer to you until we meet in person. I have watched a fair amount of you video work, and I must say that you have outdone yourself. A true class artist you are with the stories and your travel humour. Keep it up.
I have been going back through your videos. Always informative and entertaining! Looking forward to exploring Canada with my Canadian spouse! I had no idea there were cacti in Alberta.
Love your story telling!
Your video is for sure pro quality, great job, I live in Kneehill county and for sure need to embrace the winter outdoors!
Love this location and all your videos
Just amazing. Thank you sir
One of the best videos so far, as all of your videos are truly inspiring
Loved this video!! Nature at it's most Natural!!!
I had a yabba dabba do time watching this one Slim. Thanks!
Great video job as usual. Having camped in the SW Desert, definitely a coyote.
Great filmography.
BRRRRRR! No thanks... I'll stick with 3-season camping, thank you very much! Love the Provincial Parks!
Hi Slim, excellent footage! Cameras used are very good quality.
Nicely done. Very professional. 😊 --Mark
I'm so glad I found your channel! Slim - do you have a video about your tow vehicle, why you chose it, gas mileage whan towing, etc.?
Hi Timothy. I use a 2007 Jeep Liberty. Why? It fit my budget. I get around 15 or 16 mpg towing with going at or close to the speed limit. I confess little knowledge of towing vehicle so am not planning a video. It has worked well for me though! Thanks, SP
I am so happy to have found this channel ♡♡ Adore the creative video!
Hi Slim...Tom Hamp here again...
Have always been puzzled by your ability to camp at below-freezing temperatures and seeming to stay warm. In this current video, you do not seem to use electrical hookup. I have been advised not to let my batteries get below freezing as they can become damaged (particularly if below 50% charge). Please, how do you manage to keep the furnace going (if that’s what you do...)
Great vid as always...you are producing some wonderful material here, sir!
Hi Tom, That video was actually part of a trilogy: "A Fireside Chat on Winter Camping": ua-cam.com/video/mq-bTwy94J0/v-deo.html and "A Buddy for the Cold": ua-cam.com/video/81HLSv5Af-w/v-deo.html
Those will explain the heat sources. Thanks! SP
Love your videos. Truly inspiring!
They actually use salt in Alberta. One time there a 6 in Rock put a dent in truck camper. The dot said it was p gravel used on winter hw
Alberta uses more gravel than salt. In the US however the eastern states use it very aggressively. I generally find that wherever I go in the winter I make sure I wash off the trailer immediately after any winter driving. Last year the amount of corrosion was terrible!
Slim Potatohead were from the nb. Anytime in Alberta my windshield last 1 month, nb 1 on last 10 yrs
Thanks Slim, I hope you are off on another adventure!
I can't wait for the next video.
Regards
I hear ya Barry! My Jeep front looks like something out of a Bonnie and Clyde movie !!!
a whussy? can't imagine anyone calling you that. winter camping anywhere other than florida is too much for most people. thumbs up good vid
Great job!
Top notch video!!!!
Great video
Great video man..... I really enjoy them
Nice episode, I would recommend reading or downloading the audio book of "Touching the Wild" by Joe Hutto on Mule Deer... Excellent book and good insight of these magnificent animals...
Did you notice the small animal scamper in the lower right side of the frame at about the 9:11 mark? Probably a rabbit. I couldn't tell. Thanks for the great video
Great eyes Steve! I did see it in editing but didn't when I shot it. I was so mesmerized by the ice crystals! Thanks
SP - I came across some of your videos and have been hooked. The contents are very good and I really enjoy the scenery. Are you a full-time RVer? Thumbs up......
Hey Slim, catching up on your videos. Where do you get your music? Or do you create it yourself? It always seems very appropriate and varies, unlike some other channels. Love it. Although winter camping is not for me, (yet), I do love to see how you make it happen! Question, how do you keep vegetables fresh on your travels? Or do you visit a grocery every few days?
Hi James, the music comes from various sources, but lately it is mostly from the UA-cam music library. Copyright issues of course limit the options. Keeping veggies fresh was a big problem until I got the Alpicool fridge. Now I can actually keep lettuce, dairy and protein like a home fridge, without a drain on my batteries. Living in luxury now! SP
Cool video, very cool!
I'm curious how the Aliner tracks in the snow. I've thought about taking my Alite to Eastern Oregon during the winter but I'm not sure how the trailer would do with the PNW icy snow we get. Wet snow and then it freezes. My AWD Mazda with snow tires does well, but I'm not sure about the Alite trailer radial tires.
Hi Eric, I've not had any issues with my Aliner in winter. I have good gripping tires on my Jeep and use 4WD always on snow. The trailer adds weight, but it has never swayed although I drive very cautiously. Steep hills are always my biggest concern, as I don't have brakes on the trailer. Thanks!
Great video! Cool place! Atb Sean
I’d be nervous to be out hiking alone in a place with coyotes, because of what happened to the hiker who was killed by coyotes on the Cabot Trail in Cape Breton.
I think that would eliminate ALL my camping! Seriously, even squirrels have attacked people. Don't fear wildlife, understand and prepare for it.
That is why l avoid any location that bans firearms. I prefer to have some protection in the bush jic.
That unfortunate incident was an attack by CoyWolves (a mix of Coyote and Wolf). I saw a documentary about it and a couple captured some photos of them about 1/2 hour before the woman was attacked. They were larger than normal coyotes using the predatory skills of the wolf and very nasty animals.
ScubaStevee62 I’m from those parts and such events do occur, but are off the charts rare. Nonetheless, precautions must be taken as we are just visitors
Bet your beer stayed cold!!
Sure did!
Awesome video my fellow albertan! I just bought an A frame trailer myself and can't wait to go winter camping with it. Your channel is a great resource for first time A frame trailer owners! By the way when the music started playing at the 3:49 mark I though it was the theme music from Bruce Lee's Enter the Dragon! :)
Hi fil79, Glad you like my videos. Hey, you're a great guitarist! If you have some background music you'd like to share let me know. I was looking for funky 70's suspense music for the coyote part, it was "The Chase" by Topher Mohr and Alex Elana. Good to hear you have an A-frame. Now get out and enjoy it! Slim
Slim Potatohead thanks Slim! I can send you the mp3 file of me playing Romanza on classical guitar, it would make for a nice background music! Just let me know how you want me to send it to you and it will be done my friend! :)
will do Slim! :)
Awesome video, very well done. It's cay-yote, not cay-yoo-tee in the West....Just saying. You need to get your Ham Radio license and join us on Parks on the Air.......POTA and activate the parks in Canada. You planning on coming down Stateside this Winter?.......Always enjoy your very well done videos of where ever you land. 75 and shorts weather in the SW near Vegas today.........😎✌😁
But didn't they have Wile E. Coy-YO-tee cartoons in the West?!? Or listen to fellow Canuck Joni Mitchell's "Coyote"?. Yes, the warmer climate is calling me. Should be "on the fine white lines of the freeway" heading south shortly!
So jeloussssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssss what camera equipement do you use Slim?? awesome... xx n
Hi, a request. is in true? ....When you throw [boilingwater] into the air, the hotwater forms into hot droplets. Extremely cold temperatures quicklyfreeze the water dropwhich fall as ice crystals.... appreciate you doing this for us.
Hi Saintpo, have a look at this video: ua-cam.com/video/QMZU88fBc-4/v-deo.html . Towards the end I demonstrate this. Thanks! SP
hi, would you spec the camera that you had used to shot this? please? Thank you
wow
Lovely place great video. Very enjoyable. Hey Slim Where's your wood stove ?
Hi Brian, that`s a New Year project. Need to fit a bike rack, upgrade my solar array and move my tongue battery to the inside first. The list never ends!
Well Slim. I will be looking fwd to your nxt video. Cheers Bri.
I was thinking about moving my battery inside too.
ha ha ha 6 mins...love ya humour...hahahah
Your cool 👍👍 and I smell like kerosene from changing a wick.
U havea eye looking at u a wofe dose make a sound arun two so ur r good be safe Bonnie dozier calera al
There is no structural strength in an Aliner roof panel, its just Filon (Fibreglass panel) or aluminum on the top, Seaboard on the bottom and foam in the middle. I would not be putting any weight on it. At the start of the video you put your body weight (your knee) on rear roof panel to clean the solar panel and I cringed! When doing any roof work on an Aliner ensure all weight is on the extrusions on the sides of the panel. The older Aliner's have aluminum skin and not Filon, and these roofs are actually weaker because the glues don't bond well to the aluminum. I used to live in Calgary, and love that area!
Hi Jeffrey, Fortunately I'm a pretty light guy! That said, I guess I won't be doing any Dancing with the Stars videos on the roof of my Aliner!
The first five used Aliner's and Chalets that I looked at here in Ontario all had warped roofs and the reason is that they were stored with the roof in the closed position over winter and the snow load caused that warping. I don't think Aliner stresses strongly enough that these trailers have to stored outdoors with the roofs erected in snowy areas. I am in Sault Ste Marie, Ontario and the snowload on my Aliner would have been perhaps more than 2,000 lbs last winter had the roof been closed (the snowbanks on either side of my driveway hit 8 feet in height). However I store my Aliner erected with the high wind harness connected, so I get no more than in thin layer of ice and snow on it. I have also come across Aliners with damaged roofs on my travels through the US southwest (Utah/Arizona/Colorado/Wyoming). What I often see is delamination of the layers of the roof due to some modification gone wrong. The sixth Aliner that I looked at is the one I purchased, an optioned up 2008 Scout that had what I wanted and did not have what I did not want, specifically it did not have the air conditioner, holding tank or water heater.
of course coyote