WHY I Chose To NOT Get a Slide
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- Опубліковано 17 вер 2024
- In this video I discuss my reasons why I didn't buy a truck camper or rv with a slide out.
Hello, my names Kevin and I live full time in my truck camper! I enjoy recording my adventures of me traveling through beautiful scenery and snowboarding and mountain biking! Come along on my journey in this world as I chase my interests and try to live my happiest life I can!
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I'm 100% not interested in a camper with a slide. just more leak points and more things to break even if it does increase the living area a little.
I tried one with slide lasted one year and switch to a truck camper with triple slides and will never go back
Kevin, great points. Maybe a video on security ideas.
Great Video Kevin!
Thanks for sharing and teaching us. Appreciate your set up and agree w no slide outs for winter camping and being on the move. Having the bath in the back for wet gear is important and vital to an active life in a camper I feel :)
Good, down to earth video, sir. I subscribed today after watching a few of your videos over the last month. I have an old Capri Rodeo which I put a wood stove into. I have camped in the Rodeo steady since I bought it but still live in a home. Probably at 40 to 60 days a year now. To answer your question about content, I would be interested in hearing about provisioning for a longer boondock and some cooking of that food. I sometimes camp for two or three weeks in a stretch and the alone time is good for me, but food always brings me back to town. Also, several day in the life of winter boondocks episodes would be enjoyable.
New vid!!! Thanks Kevin keep em coming!!!
Slides also allow entry points for bugs, insects, critters and pests if the seals don’t seat properly
Hey Kevin, nice video. I totally agree with everything you brought up in this video. I have an Arctic Fox 811. I got it really cheap from a family member and love it, but… I camp solo with two huskies and really my use for the dinette is for the dogs to lay under the table and as counter space. I really like your set up. If I change at some point I will go with a Northern Lite. Love the fiberglass, clam shell, no slide, less maintenance. You’re right about having to plan for the slide going out when you park in parking lots/on the street. I plan to remodel my slide - remove the dinette, build a platform over the furnace and put a couch (dogs can lay on couch) over that with lagoon table(s). That way it will feel roomy and be easy to get in through the door with the slide in not having the dinette sticking out into the isle way. When the slide is out it will feel huge. Thanks again for your time and effort on the videos. Be safe.
Extra room is over rated. I love the coziness of my normal truck camper, and it’s handy being able to reach across from the table and flip the pancakes.😂 I’m still in awe of your bunk headroom. Might have to tear my flat roof off to do a barrel vault. 🌲🤙
Our camper is 4 season and has no slides. Its very roomy with tons of storage. Its also old as hell...but...no leaks, no mold no broken odds and ends.👍😎🇨🇦
I really like the bathroom comment. I always thought you'd want it towards the front of the vehicle.
My husband and I have a class c chevy thor 24ft no slide. We chose with no slide for reason the slides always seem to break and have issues...and plus they are hard to keep heat/cold in....Enjoy your videos
Keep up the good work dude! I can’t see your channel growing everyday.
With slides come vectors and seals and breakdowns. IMHO (which you didn't ask for) I think you made the best decision.
Love the info love the camper love that you can sit on the bed
I love my 855s but I can definitely see a benefit without a slide also!
speakin of maintianing ur camper paint then jacks
I agree paint those jacks and maybe even a rebuild too !
We have a 4 season camper with a slide (and an awning). Rarely use our awning, the slide helps with a bit more space for the 150 lbs mastiff to be on the floor😂 this is our first year with this camper, so I'm not sure how cold camping will be this fall/winter yet, but looking forward to going and finding out! ❤ Another great video! Thank you 😊
My slide is very poorly insulated for a supposed 4 season camper. So if it’s cold, I have to leave it in or it’s very difficult to heat the interior. And yes, an undeployed slide is just in the way all the time.
What camper do you have?
@@snake10566a 1997 Snowbird
Hey Kevin, I built a 12’ travel trailer cause I wanted to be able to set up camp then use my truck to drive to near by trails and attractions.. but I’ve since realized that the truck camper is so much better. Just seems so much easier to just fold up your ladder grab your leveling blocks and hit the road.
Can go both ways! If you stay in one area long a travel trailer can be king cause a empty truck is easier to drive around
Hello Kevin,
Good information for anyone contemplating a slide. Thanks for sharing. Keep up the good work and stay safe.
Well hello beautiful eyes 👀 it's amazing to see another amazing video I really like how you're truck camper looks
Thank you 😊
I think your home is really nice. I'm suspicious when it comes to slides due to the reasons you've mentioned.
Great Video - if you're going to live in a place where cold can kill you, I would think a large hole in your house with a particle board box in it would not be a plus.
Your always better off and safer to have less camper and more truck like you did, that bit of extra room isnt worth it in my opinion, I found a 96 F350 reg cab 4x4 with the single axle and will go with something similar weight wise, looking forward to my semi retirement and exploring the country, Keep it up with the great content Kevin, there enjoyable and relaxing to watch and stay safe out there
Ya, I wondered if an awning would be useful or not. I guess it would be used just for a couple weeks or so in the summer. By the way, I drove from home (Edmonton) to Prince Rupert. All on Hwy 16. Then took the Inner Passage Ferry (BC Ferries) from Prince Rupert to Port Hardy. Stayed on the northern part of the island as much as I could - yup, for that reason - less people. And it’s gorgeous there. Dude, I think you’re awesome. Keep posting.
Awesome info., as always. Does your camper have an awning? If so, do you use it? I’ve not seen it on your other videos By the way, you inspired me this summer - I went out on a vacation on my own. And I also was on the FSR between Port Alice and Port MacNiel. I love the northern section of Vancouver Island - so beautiful.
That’s awesome!!! Beautiful and less people out here! I do not have an awning but I feel if I did I wouldn’t use it enough.
great, thanks
I agree a slide out is just too much weight! Thanks for the vid :)
Thank you!!! I appreciate that!!
Nice optimism on slides...but u already know how I feel about slides! 😂. 🍻
Yes I do! 😂 🍻
🚐🏕 Gracias Kevin 👍 for the 👀 b4 you make that big purchase vid 😎 Absolutely the pros/cons.. do or don’t … yah/nope decisions are a lil mind boggling 🤬 but at the end …Ahhh!!! Let’s hit the road 🚐🏕💃💃✨🚐🏕✌️
Your camper looks very roomy. I think you have more living and storage space than my van.
I hear you on your points. There is a female UA-camrs that just bought a truck and an old cheaply made pop up truck camper and I watched her basically rebuild it. I think this is her 3rd vehicle trying to do the life on the road thing and I just told her in her latest video she wasted her money on the truck and wasted her time rebuilding the truck camper. She asks opinions after she buts things. Another one asks for advice then ignores all the advice and finds the hardest most miserable way to do things wasting money then complains for the next 6 months to a year while suffering in living conditions and complaining about that too. Why can’t they think like you. Practical. Thinking a head weighing all your options really thinking what am I going to be doing with this?
After the first night in a freezing rain, you’ll be happy that you didn’t get a slide.
I never even thought of that! Good point!
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Also, you're only one person! It's as big as lots of New York suites. lol
Yeah, you didn't need a slide.
Damn you do a lot of cuts…makes my eyes hurt