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sounds like our story, we whent from a disco to the county. a good sized real tent. so the young fella has his own bed now ( i get to sleep). we sold the disco to get the county in hind site we sould have keeped that and sold the honda.
what i am trying to say is that if you can, think about getting a defender and leave the trailer untill the kids are teenagers. thats our thinking and we are pleased we changed
I don't know, which isn't much help to you. I got mine from auction but if you keep an eye on the REMLR for sale section they'll let you know when one comes up for sale.Quote:
Originally Posted by catch-22
Saying that however I don't use mine for camping because it's a hassle and allows me the luxury of taking too much with me. I have a FL2 which is not big but but with the rack it makes it OK. As far as racks go check out the Frontrunner racks that you can get from Oppositelock, the good thing about them is they are fairly universal and not vehicle specific but have a heap of accessories and much lower profile than the likes of Rhino. They have a kit for the Disco II.
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Interesting thread as it highlights the universal problem of space, weight and everyones various and differing views of solving the problem. FWIIW, I intend to lease a new 130 duel cab chassis with a purpose built removable "pod" similiar to the one on the 'boiling billy' online publication. As it will cater for just the two of us, it will be able to serve a dual role for touring either towing a van or as the carrier of all necessities including a dinghy on the roof rack.
Regards
Maggsie
I do recommend the roof tent - I have used two of them. One really old, and one really new.
You don't need to be fit to get up there.. you just need to be able to climb a ladder. Two people to setup helps as well esp when its wet as you need to lift the canvas up and over. (if that makes sense).
To save even more space I used to store things in the bed as well.. pillows, bedding, thick jackets etc all stuff that takes up a lot of room and is not needed all the time.
The only downside to the roof tent is that you have to pack up camp to go for a drive... but this is out weighed by being off the ground, away from water, spiders, pigs, goannas, and flipping scorpions :mad::mad: .. not to mention that warm glow you get after a great dry nights sleep when it has been pooring down with rain all night long and everyone else was nearly drowned in their tents on the ground :wasntme: this happened so many times.. Once I woke up and there was 6 inches of water on the ground.. everyone in the camp site had flooded tents.. people up all night trying to sleep in cars etc.
Used a camp-o-matic trailer as well. Was really good but limiting in a lot of ways in terms of you have a trailer with you (and even though its a 4x4 trailer with the special mount and the big tires etc) we still managed to collapse the suspension somewhere out in the middle of WA... .. ...
Oh and is a real pain to get anything out of it once its closed. Like a first aid kit that hasn't been used all trip and with each daily re-pack gets further and further to the back until you actually need it... but yeah... scorpions :mad:
I can recommend the roof top tent at the rear and a basket on the front. That allows me to take the double swag and the swag dome for my 2 boys (6 and 4) the 80l waeco, large tucker box, gas bottle, gas lantern, stove, 4 chairs, table, assortment of balls etc etc all in the D2, giddy up cheers JP
We have a similar dilemma and I'm holding off buying a trailer as I'm convinced it will just be a nuisance and if we come to rely on it then it will limit where we can go ( particularly with a d3 scarifier tow hitch ). We have two girls, 6 and 3 and we did a two week trip around tassie in a d2 with no cargo barrier, just packing the back up and a borrowed hard roof pod. It all worked well enough but it was a pain with all the gear having to be partially unpacked to get to the fridge etc.
With the purchase of the D3 I decided to get a bit more serious and got a half front runner roof rack and made a cage up for the back thet allows the fridge to slide out and adds some order to the packing.
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The girls sleep on single self inflating matresses and we did have a double one but it turned out too bulky. We have since gone to a couple of stretchers for us that pack down to a reasonable size and have just bought a bag for the roof rack to contain all the stuff that we don't want to get wet.
Even with a D3 it's a battle to get everything in although we can now pack all the "travelling gear behind the cage and on the roof which makes sharing the rest of the truck with two little girls a bit more bearable.
This is the truck loaded up on the way home from Fraser.
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Regards,
Tote
When you add children into the equation it gets a bit more interesting, been there done that, the systems we had went:
Coleman Classic tent, - up in 5 minutes, enough room to sleep in, not much else.
Bigger cabin style tent - up in 45 minutes, lasted one trip, plenty of room inside, had to go on roof rack while travelling.
Large dome tent - up in 10 minutes, it was alright.
Our first Shippshape roof top tent, great for two people, open ready to sleep in basic setup, 60 seconds, for over night our school aged daughter sleep across the back seat without complaint, extended stays had the small dome tent up as a private bedroom for our daughter.
We have had 3 jayco campers and one Cub camper, all good, but not for us, off road trailers are fine, I personally prefer not to pulling extra axle in the rough having done my share as track support for a hiking tour group.
Our daughter is now grown-up and rarely comes with us, we now have another Shippshape Rooftop tent, I am about to make a cargo area draw system for the rear of the Rangie.
This current setup will allow us to take our Macgregor 26X trailer sailor with us on an extended trip, we can leave the Macgregor in lockup while we do remote touring or leave the Rangie and trailer while we go sailing.
The best way of travelling is to cull your load to the essentials, leave at home the might be handy stuff.
We work with caravan and motorhome repairers, it is surprising how many people talk about getting away from it all then pack electric jugs, toasters, hairdryers, we were all surprised by the Bohemia Crystal wine glasses in the off-road caravan.
Glenn