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COOPERHAWK
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East Central Minnesota
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| 01/29/2007 2:22 PM |
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My wife, daughter and I were fishing
on Lake Vermillion at a very nice campground right by the water.
We had been fishing the night before and the women were sleeping in,
(and rather cranky at that), and the wind had come up. I was
trying to light the grill and the wind was so bad that it was nearly
impossible.
Since it was October the campground was nearly empty and there were
many nice sites back in the pine trees out of the wind and I decided to
move. I was hesitant to wake one of the women and iritate them
more, and besides, I could do this without disturbing the.
Couldn't I?
I unhooked everything and slowly backed out of the site to the right
and just as I was about clear, Hit a stump that was hiding in some
brush waiting to bushwack me. Right rear bumper, lower cornor
panel, right rear window replaced. $14,000.00. Humor
provided to my family and friends. Priceless!!
I told my brother that a tree had chased me and run into me. He wanted to see it's wooden shoes.
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1985 Airstream 345 Turbo-Diesel
VFW,Legion, NRA
FAA Air Traffic Control Supervisor (Retired)
http://www.cooperhawk.net
mailto:jimcooper@cooperhawk.net
"People are okay in ones and twos. After that number they tend to choose up sides and wear arm bands and berets." |
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swebster
Classic Camper
Posts:290
Louisville, Kentucky
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| 01/29/2007 2:47 PM |
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| Ouch! That's gotta hurt. |
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Steven Webster
1986 Airstream 345 |
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Balrgn
Moderator
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Posts:805
Registered Users
Southern NH
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| 01/30/2007 7:02 PM |
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Some time it just don't pay!  |
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1977 Argosy 20
454 V8 Gas
Southern NH
Maintenance Analyst
www.balrgn.com |
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Balrgn
Moderator
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Posts:805
Registered Users
Southern NH
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| 03/03/2007 7:16 AM |
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Time to get this one going again.
Hmmm. When I bought the Peanut, it was mid February. It had spent its life in South Carolina. The folks that brought it to NH were not "Classic" owners, they have a sweet '03 28'er.
We worked feverishly to get the rig ready to camp in March and then again in April. The waste piping needed work, the valve bodies dripped. no biggie, I took everything apart refurbished the valves and replummed the line.
March went Awesome. No problems everything worked like new, however, we dry camped.
April rolls around and we wanted to use the MH again. The State Park has Water and Electric, no Sewer Hook up.
In the late evening I notice a drip of water coming from under the MH. No real good indication of where? No biggie, I'll look at it when we get home. After the first night we found the shower facility to be less than desiresable. No problem we'll use our shower. Plenty of hot water in the rig! Well, less than a minute into the shower, and I was conserving as much as possible, I'm standing in water??? Great, plugged tub basin drain, must be a freekin mouse nest! Oh well, "Bird Bath"! The weekend went well, everyone loved touring the rig. Not many missed the drip, drip, drip. Was not black water so I was not concerned.
Once we got home, I figured I'd put a bucket under the pipe and get a snake to see if I could get the drain free. Pulled the handle and WHOOSH!! One bucket, two buckets, three buckets, four. Oh for cryin out loud! Light comes on over my head. I had the piping apart in February (30º high for the day), the piping dripped for the 3 days it was apart until it was reassembled. The gray tank was FULL and frozen solid the whole time. I gotta be some lucky, no damage to the tank! 
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1977 Argosy 20
454 V8 Gas
Southern NH
Maintenance Analyst
www.balrgn.com |
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COOPERHAWK
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East Central Minnesota
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| 03/03/2007 10:17 AM |
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Okay, got one more. My Wife and
I were towing our boat on our way to the Chippewa Flowage in northern
Wisconsin to spend the week end fishing with my cousing and his
wife. Taking a shortcut up the back roads like AAA, or CCC,
that's how they mark them you know.
Darn, missed my turn to the east. Okay, we'll take the next
one. I'm sure that will link up with the road we're after.
Nice paved road, some nice homes too.
Okay, road turned to gravel. Houses are fewer and not as
nice. Well, we'll be okay. I'm sure this road will link up
with the road we're after.
Okay, gravel turns to dirt road now. No houses, just a cabin here
and there. Slam on brakes as bear walks out in front of me.
Wife screams.
Road turns to two tire tracks in dirt. No place to turn around since getting on this damn road. Road ends in woods.
Sitting and thinking. Do I unhook the boat and back around in the
woods? Nope, can't do it alone on soft ground and Wife is not
getting out with bear. Get out and walk back. No
bear. Room between trees to carefully back boat around into and
then reverse direction.
Tell Wife to go to back window and let me know if I cramp the boat too
tight in turn. Tell her to yell to let me know.
Carefully back boat into lane between trees watching in mirrors. CRUNCH!! STOP!!!
Wrong order of occurances. Yell stop BEFORE I hit damn boat!
Broken tail lights and frame. Bruised ego. Indignant Wife. And to top it off, she caught all the fish.
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1985 Airstream 345 Turbo-Diesel
VFW,Legion, NRA
FAA Air Traffic Control Supervisor (Retired)
http://www.cooperhawk.net
mailto:jimcooper@cooperhawk.net
"People are okay in ones and twos. After that number they tend to choose up sides and wear arm bands and berets." |
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swebster
Classic Camper
Posts:290
Louisville, Kentucky
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| 03/03/2007 11:15 AM |
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| You just need to disable the "R" on your steering column ;) |
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Steven Webster
1986 Airstream 345 |
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Balrgn
Moderator
Expert
Posts:805
Registered Users
Southern NH
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| 03/03/2007 1:16 PM |
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| Ooooo, man, at least mine had a happy ending... |
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1977 Argosy 20
454 V8 Gas
Southern NH
Maintenance Analyst
www.balrgn.com |
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capt.dan
Classic Camper
Posts:126
Registered Users
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| 11/03/2007 12:59 PM |
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| As bad as mine. I needed to turn around and as I was coming to a street I missed there was a easement and I figured it could turn around there. I was towing my pickup and the angle from pavement to easement was sharper than it looked all of the sudden.. You probubly already know what happened, I had the rear end off the ground with the hitch holding it up!!! I couldn't back up or go forward and now I'm blocking both sides of the road!! I had some guy come out and go to his pickup and come down to me and with a chain pulled me around with his 4X4. With almost everyone on the street watching... Embarrassing!! You could have heard them saying...ROOKIE!!!! |
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travcoman45
Camper
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| 11/22/2007 10:13 AM |
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Had to go east of Madison WS to pick up the motorhome after we bought her. Before this I had seen her once and hoped I had everything with me I needed. Ball for the hitch to tow truck home, towbar, wiring, spare oil, anitfreeze about everything I thought.
Get there, the ball has a 1 inch bolt, the hitch, 3/4 inch. You have any idea how long it takes to file out a hole in that hard steel? A few blisters later and the ball is in. Go to plug in the lights and it is just a plug taped to the hitch, had never been wired up! OK, simple, pull the taillights, tap into the wires and that will at least get us home. Finally get everything hooked together and were ready to go, wife steps in the door and a bee fly's in behind her glasses (this ain't good folks, she hates bugs!), she freaks, swats the bee and her glasses go flying out the door and break in the driveway. So much for my navigation device!
Now, we have to make a side trip into Madison to get her glasses fixed, New motorhome that I have now owned for all of an 1 1/2 hours and I get to go downtown Madison WS with it! Oh joy. Start in for town and there are severe storms in the area (actually a tornado!), coming down this old highway into a valley, get on the bridge and get slammed by this wind flying through the valley, I'm standing up pulling as hard as I can on the steering wheel to the left to mis the bridge, the wife (as blind as she is) is screaming and holding onto everything she can find. Get across the bridge and out of the wind and straightened back out on the road. Hart beat is about 200 and I could use some clean underwear. Are we having fun yet?
Get into Madison, get her glasses fixed, start for home. Spent the night in a nice motel on the river. Get up, have breakfest, boy it's cold out. The old girl started, caughed and belched up a good ball of smoke that blanketed the next 4 acres of land, (ok, maybe a little more time on the glow plugs was in order), but she's running. Start for home, more storms (should I have ever left home?) starts to rain, turn on the drivers wiper, nothing, turn on the passenger wiper, it works, (well at least somebody can see), running the heater and one wiper, amp gauge says all is well. Starts to get dark, turn on the head lights. Drive for about another hour, boy is it getting dark, are them headlights on? Stop, yep but two candles up there would do better! Something is amiss in the charging department! Ok, don't shut it off, it's diesel, she will run forever if I don't turn it off, but how are we going to get home with no lights! Idea, battery in toad, but how to hook all that up to the batteries in the motorhome. Stop at Kmart, buy a set of jumper cables, pull battery out of truck, set it on the floor, hook jumber cables to motorhome batteries and viola! We have lights agian! Get home, park and go drop in bed!
Found out the previous owner had hooked the batteries up backwards!
What a great start with this RV! But here we are, fixed a few problems, one complete rebuild and we love it! |
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COOPERHAWK
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East Central Minnesota
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| 11/23/2007 11:12 AM |
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Posted By travcoman45 on 11/22/2007 10:13 AM
Something is amiss in the charging department! Ok, don't shut it off, it's diesel, she will run forever if I don't turn it off, but how are we going to get home with no lights! Idea, battery in toad, but how to hook all that up to the batteries in the motorhome. Stop at Kmart, buy a set of jumper cables, pull battery out of truck, set it on the floor, hook jumber cables to motorhome batteries and viola! We have lights agian!
Okay, I've dealt with this problem before too. In the parking lot in Gettysburg National Battlefield and the batteries are dead. Got a jump start from a good samaritan and got on the road. Yikes! Not charging at all. It's raining and we're in the mountains. Okay, stop for the night in a campground in the mountains. Plugged in and the batteries charge over night. 
Back on the road. Rain and sleet. Wipers run slower and slower and finially quit!!! Had to pull in to another camp ground on a MOUNTAINSIDE!!!
What to do. Oh what to do. EUREKA!!!!! Get our my drill and drill two holes in floor of coach just above battery compartment. Open batter slide out and attach two wires, (12 ga.), to + and - posts and run them up through the hole into the coach. Hook up my battery charger to wires in coach and plug into outlet. Batteries are fully charged by morning and ready to go. 
YIKES, mountainside is solid ice in the morning. Manage to work our way out to highway.
1. Start Onan Generator.
2. Turn on lights.
3. Turn on wipers.
4. Travel happily down the highway.
Onan Generator continueously charges batteries all the way home. (Two more days).
Wife was IMPRESSED!!!!! |
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1985 Airstream 345 Turbo-Diesel
VFW,Legion, NRA
FAA Air Traffic Control Supervisor (Retired)
http://www.cooperhawk.net
mailto:jimcooper@cooperhawk.net
"People are okay in ones and twos. After that number they tend to choose up sides and wear arm bands and berets." |
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