New England B.S. Thread

Want me to try?

 

They will put it on hold if you call, I believe. The other one was on hold.

I can also just go there if you really do want it, it’s not far for me. I’m just out of town for tomorrow til Sunday

603-890-0511 is their number

 

That's a steal for new. Heck that's a good spot for a used RTT.

...is this that tent?
https://www.thule.com/en-us/rooftop.../rooftop-tents/thule-tepui-low-pro-2-_-901002

It's on clearance of a sale of the normal price.... Hot damn, that's a great find.

 

If wasn't such a stickler about weight or had somewhere to stick that? Mighty tempting...

 

I think its the three person, but honestly I already forgot.

Yeah there had been like 4 of them sitting around all summer, I think they had one with the annex clearanced down to $1000 from 1500.

 

Could go in the chicken coop...

 

I would need it to be a single person operation otherwise I could like suspend it in the basement but.. yeah its a bit heavy I think for my gf to help me put it on/off

 

I do mine myself, we have similar height bars. Mine also magically balances on this creeper.

 

you've been to my place, now imagine that creeper going around to the back down some narrow stairs into a basement

you'll find me in the retirement home in no time

 

That was just a fun fact. I dont think moving them around is too big of a deal. Tiffany helps me sometimes and she's a 5'0" and can still help

 

This came down solo.



Notes:

• A second person does make this 100x easier, but it is totally doable solo
• Get a longer dolly
• Put something on the trailgate to slide on, either as a corner brace or a plank
• Moving it around on the dolly is super easy, but it is a bit unsteady. I would feel comfortable standing to either side of it and moving it, but for storage, I would tie it off to a wall somehow.

I dropped this down and pushed it into my garage solo, it was proof of concept for if it makes sense to keep it or not. I can do the platform in and out solo easily, so if the rooftop tent is also easy solo...it's a lot more space.

Here's some other pictures I found:




It looks like this guy kinda "tumbles" it (I'm assuming doesn't drop it)






The whole shebang WITH the rack, this is what I would do if I had the height/could fit in the garage.


edit to add another note - if the ladder comes off the back (I am thinking of trying that out next year), then the straps would go tight and be parallel to the ladder. ALSO, I used cam straps, NOT ratchet straps. 100% recommend NOT using ratchet straps for the same idea as you don't on a kayak - don't want to crunch the thing.

 

Only ONE smack? Haha yeah of all places you don't want a rot hole on a panel, a fender or door you can Bondo it up quick and/or replace the panel.

Cherry body even, 515K still makes me dizzy

"Who cares what it costs, how much are the payments"..

My sister and I were house hunting around the same time 20 years ago. Neither of us were great with money as kids but I've gotten better, she's worse. My dad drilled into our heads don't look at the amount they'll give you, look at what you can pay every month plus do repairs you know about plus repairs you don't know about plus live. I followed that and she didn't. One of us got a foreclosure a few years ago, guess who?

Exactly, suck it up and drive something you might not love for a while especially if you aren't able to pay for it now. You'd laugh if you saw some of the heaps I drove through my teens and 20s.

True in your case you want a different thing (miles) and that can be tougher in some ways to find nowadays as well.

Unless you could eat off the body/frame/interior that's nuts, even at that it's still nuts unless you have a spare drivetrain and the ability to hump it in yourself when it happens.

 

lol yeah just it wouldnt even fit through the door of the basement the way its designed

Would love a clamshell personally. Just want my setup to be like as instant as possible

 

I usually look at the total cost. I feel like payments are how dealerships/salesmen get people into longer than they should be loans and the total cost skyrockets. But I get how you need to be able to even afford the payment at all to even start a conversation.

I'm trying to now just avoid having debts entirely

 

Yeah, I love the space of the RTT, but I don't love that I need to be (more) level (than my cab setup), and that if it rains, I need to dry it out. I don't HATE the setup time, it takes about the same amount of time as a ground tent if not significantly less, and I'm off the ground.

it would give me my cab back though (namely, for a fridge )

https://www.consumerreports.org/con...ff-with-the-four-square-heres-how-to-beat-it/

 

lmao that pic is great.

I recently got a gazelle t4 for just over $200 thanks to sportsman's warehouse sale + discount code.

They seem to give that $20 off x or whatever codes they're always running on anything. Like I never have to deal with fine print lmao.

Maybe my BIL fiddles with his a bit but it takes a while for his SB v2

 

I meant weight on the truck, coupled with the fact that it's up high is a big no no for me. I try to keep the weight of/on the truck down as low as I can to attempt to mitigate everything else I've done lmao, plus I definitely would have rolled several times this weekend if I had an rtt strapped to the bed.



..... your wife, she's real!

 

What’s her middle name?

 

that's not my garage, I just found that by searching RTT storage. Mine is the first picture, the rest are google searches.

Alfreda