Hello from Brandon, MB
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Topic: Hello from Brandon, MB
Posted By: deannaomi
Subject: Hello from Brandon, MB
Date Posted: 07 Feb 2012 at 4:01pm
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We are the proud owner of a 2012 173T. We haven't picked it up yet, but have been in and looked at it...it looks great! We're really looking forward to camping this summer. One question. It's no problem hooking them up to full serviced sites? Just the sewer hook-up was the only question I was wondering about. I assume it's no problem, but just checking. Looking forward to getting some feedback.
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Posted By: techntrek
Date Posted: 07 Feb 2012 at 4:29pm
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Welcome. When you have full hookups you can attach the sewer hose, but don't leave the black water valve open. It needs to fill up so it dumps fully - leaving the valve open will leave solids that will dry up and cause problems later. You can leave the gray water valve open, but close it a shower or two before your black tank is full. Then dump the black, close it, dump the gray to flush the hose.
------------- Doug ~ '10 171 (2009-2015) ~ 2008 Salem ~ http://www.rpod-owners.com/forum_posts.asp?TID=1723 - Pod instruction manual 
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Posted By: deannaomi
Date Posted: 07 Feb 2012 at 5:24pm
| Thanks much for the help!! |
Posted By: Snowbound
Date Posted: 07 Feb 2012 at 7:06pm
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Congratulations! I know you will enjoy your new pod as much as we do ours (bought last winter). You will really be anticipating spring now! This is a great place to ask all the questions you can run into. People on here are so helpful.B ------------- Tom and Bette in our 177 "The Gastropod" |
Posted By: deannaomi
Date Posted: 07 Feb 2012 at 8:59pm
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Thanks! We had a Trillium for a few years and really liked it, but wanted something a little more mtce free, so decided to upgrade. Did a lot of research and the r.pods seemed to be by far the best choice. We'd read quite a bit on this forum before making up our mind as well. Now...just waiting for the snow to go!
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Posted By: Podsible Dream
Date Posted: 07 Feb 2012 at 9:37pm
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Welcome! You will appreciate that potent little furnace and insulated walls!! ------------- Chris and Walt '10 RP-171 'Free Spirit' '13 Dodge Durango Crew 5.7 L Hemi V8 |
Posted By: dsmiths
Date Posted: 07 Feb 2012 at 10:51pm
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Podsible is right, that little furnace is a little noisy, but will run you out, crack a window, even if its one toothpick wide, crack the vent in the shower, no fan and it will help, I noticed that if you barely crack a window and turn the fan on low the window will whistle, so we turned off the fan and was a snug as two bugs in a rug. small electric heater is good also, we ran a little 1500 watt electric heater with a thermostat last fall at Clifty Falls State Park near Madison Indiana, when we got up in the morning the ground and trees and our pod was white with a hard cover of frost, it was cozy warm inside. I don't know why, but a chilly morning sure does make breakfast taste better. ------------- Dane and Donna Smith 2011 RP-172 2008 Chevrolet Trailblazer 4X4 lift kit prodigy wireless brake controller |
Posted By: rpodsingledude
Date Posted: 08 Feb 2012 at 12:03am
| Yea, I just got my pod, and I live in Brandon too. You have to switch the hose back and forth from your gray and black tank to dump. Where did you buy it? From north view campers? What are you pulling it with? |
Posted By: rpodsingledude
Date Posted: 08 Feb 2012 at 12:06am
| I love your name. I am thinking about "Turtlepod," and putting turtle stickers on my pod. Your thoughts? |
Posted By: rpodsingledude
Date Posted: 08 Feb 2012 at 12:07am
| Good call, I will remember that. I love this website. |
Posted By: rpodsingledude
Date Posted: 08 Feb 2012 at 12:09am
| Did you buy it from Northview campers? |
Posted By: deannaomi
Date Posted: 08 Feb 2012 at 8:11pm
thanks for the welcome We are looking forward to it all. We had a furnace in our Trillium too, and sure enjoyed it in Sept when it starts to freeze at nights here. Thanks for the advice re: cracking the fan vent open a bit.
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Posted By: Hodge-PODge
Date Posted: 09 Feb 2012 at 8:11am
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Welcome to the forum. About the furnace - as long as I have electrical hook-ups I prefer to use a tiny electric heater rather than use the furnace - Just a personal preference for me, and it saves propane, too. Diane ------------- 2011 RP 177, the Hodge-PODge 2011 Mercedes ML350 "A man travels the world over in search of what he needs, and returns home to find it." |
Posted By: mountain mist
Date Posted: 09 Feb 2012 at 7:34pm
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dsmith: I have been afraid to leave the Winterizing the Pod when the weather just starts getting cold. The other half insists doing it in November, depending on the looks of the forcasts. However, I note you camp when there is "hard coat of frost" How about the plumbing freezing. Any information out there on how hardly these units are. I am in mountains of East Tenn. and November is sometimes not bad at all, but then boom, a big dip. Well, not THIS year. The furnance is great, just have to be sure not to run out of propane! Too bad the air conditioner can not run on it too  The dog and I are very cozy, husband does not camp anymore. I have been doing dry camping here in Elkmont, full hookups at an affordable price are far and few between. But with Elkmont we are limited to 14 days, even if you break them up over several months. Not thinking of taking Pod out of Winter mode until early April, unless Winter decides to come at that time! ------------- '11 Forest River r.pod 171 '10 Ford Edge ESCAPE POD Trudi and Austin mini-schnauzers change here, Trudi has gone, Austin now has a small black schnauzer buddy, Bentley |
Posted By: dsmiths
Date Posted: 09 Feb 2012 at 9:27pm
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Mt Mist, It was in November, here in Indiana we can have 55 and sunny in day and at night it may dip to hi 20's or low 30's, if its damp we will get a pretty white hard frost (frost is on the pumpkin) The pod has decent insulation for thin walls (foam sandwich) the water pipes are inside of the insulated body, the holding tanks are exposed but because of their mass it takes a while to freeze over, so if it dips in to low temps during the night for a few hours no problem, I think the real problem would be hi 20's for an extended period of time and blowing winds, if that wind gets under the pod it will carry the heat away pretty quickly, big dollar campers have heated tanks. In southern Indiana we could maybe camp late nov or mid December, but Donna and I like to walk and be outside, so we Winterize in november and Dream about April. Happy Campin ------------- Dane and Donna Smith 2011 RP-172 2008 Chevrolet Trailblazer 4X4 lift kit prodigy wireless brake controller |
Posted By: tpierce220
Date Posted: 10 Feb 2012 at 8:38am
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Even for us when it can get below freezing in October, we camped right up to the last weekend without any problems with freezing pipes or tanks. Even now with the weather still cooperating as it's in the mid 30s now as I type this, I'm still itching in taking ¡Podtástic! out for a weekend, but there are few places around here that I can take her and have availability to any sort of hookups. I'll just have to keep thinking about April. It will be here soon enough. ------------- Adventures with ¡Podtástic!--Life in a Forest River RPod 182G with Tim and Louis and our two cats, Desi and Lucy. Check our website at http://podtastic.info for information on our journeys. |
Posted By: mountain mist
Date Posted: 10 Feb 2012 at 9:47am
Guess that is what I am doing. April dreaming ------------- '11 Forest River r.pod 171 '10 Ford Edge ESCAPE POD Trudi and Austin mini-schnauzers change here, Trudi has gone, Austin now has a small black schnauzer buddy, Bentley |
Posted By: mountain mist
Date Posted: 10 Feb 2012 at 9:59am
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Hodge-Podge I bet you are set for another year of adventure. The furance is great, unless you run out of propane! Did that late last year, a very cold night, but the dog and I stayed under the cover as long as we could. Just happenend to be in Townsend, so propane just down the road. Now I have a "spare" that I use for my little Campfire unit. wood can not be hauled in from Anywhere and I have enough to do without keeping a fire tended. Have a short April camping in Elkmont and one in May. That uses up 8 days of the 2 weeks we are alloted. Bummer. But have found when dry camping, I do better with 4 day stays instead of a week. My favorite over in Townsend may have come to an end. I need to make a road trip over soon and see what the new owners are doing with it. Have reservations there for 2 times next year if they have not gone up drastically and made it into a stopping off place for intetubes (new owner has the business next door that is float one) and this would give him more run for his buck. Hope all is ok with you and love to hear where you are going. ------------- '11 Forest River r.pod 171 '10 Ford Edge ESCAPE POD Trudi and Austin mini-schnauzers change here, Trudi has gone, Austin now has a small black schnauzer buddy, Bentley |