anutami
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lniles wrote:Just came across this thread/saga -- the camper is for sale again, and the seller included the pointer in the ad.
https://orangecounty.craigslist.org/rvs/d/costa-mesa-truck-camper-2012-wolf-creek/7257401197.html
that's very nice of the seller to disclose this. I did meet up with him several years ago to give him the scissor steps that I ended up with. I wouldn't hesitate to buy that camper it looks like a pretty good deal. It looks like he has done a bunch of mods. Northwood makes one tough camper!
My second wolf creek has performed great and I have been and many many off road excursions. One of the major complaints that I can't really fathom especially with the Arctic fox is the furnace Northwood puts in their campers. How do you call their campers 4 season with NO heat in the cab over, bathroom and basement? Pretty much every time we camp in the snow the water lines behind the bathroom freeze up and the cabover gets so cold I have a pile of blankets and sleeping bags so high they almost touch the ceiling of the camper!!!
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joeshmoe
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He's just down the road from me. Maybe I should buy it. LoL
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lniles
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anutami wrote:lniles wrote:Just came across this thread/saga -- the camper is for sale again, and the seller included the pointer in the ad.
https://orangecounty.craigslist.org/rvs/d/costa-mesa-truck-camper-2012-wolf-creek/7257401197.html
that's very nice of the seller to disclose this. I did meet up with him several years ago to give him the scissor steps that I ended up with. I wouldn't hesitate to buy that camper it looks like a pretty good deal. It looks like he has done a bunch of mods. Northwood makes one tough camper!
My second wolf creek has performed great and I have been and many many off road excursions. One of the major complaints that I can't really fathom especially with the Arctic fox is the furnace Northwood puts in their campers. How do you call their campers 4 season with NO heat in the cab over, bathroom and basement? Pretty much every time we camp in the snow the water lines behind the bathroom freeze up and the cabover gets so cold I have a pile of blankets and sleeping bags so high they almost touch the ceiling of the camper!!!
Yikes. Have you tried to do anything about insulating those water lines?
Thanks for the info. Do you have any thoughts on how the tiedown points were reinforced after the accident?
We got a Lance 1055 a few months ago, really like the camper but at 3500 lb empty it's just too heavy for our SRW F350. So I'm looking for something lighter that can still sleep 3 adults and ran across this 850 that seems to fit the bill.
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burningman
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All this talk about tie downs, when it appears the camper’s anchor points are what failed. It doesn’t much matter whether you use frame tiedowns, belly bars, Happijacs, or Brophy clamp-ons.
The camper anchor points themselves are usually the weak point.
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anutami wrote: One of the major complaints that I can't really fathom especially with the Arctic fox is the furnace Northwood puts in their campers. How do you call their campers 4 season with NO heat in the cab over, bathroom and basement?
It's not the problem of "the furnace Northwood puts in their campers" it's where it's located in the AFs: In the slide out (except the 865). With it being there, you can't run ducting anywhere else in the camper.
I was a 10.75 year owner of an AF811. Camping in colder weather, the cabover does get cold at the head of the bed. It wasn't until about 2 years ago that I solved the problem by setting a small fan on the stove top to blow air towards the cabover. That trick only worked when I had power hookups, which was rare. Even more rare was camping in cold weather.
The cold cabover of my 811 is what kept me from buying an 865. I can't imagine camping in an 865 in cold weather. The cabover has a tunnel leading to it with bathroom on one side and fridge on the other side, with no direct flow of air to the bed from the furnace. There's also no place to put a small fan like I used on my stove top to blow air the bed.
A popular mod for people in the AF truck camper forum is to upgrade to a digital T-stat and wire it so you can run the basement air circulation fan with the fan switch on the T-stat. That allows you to run the fan all the time to keep things warmer in the basement. This can't be done to later model campers though because the T-stat controls both the furnace AND the A/C as of at least two years ago, maybe as far back as the 2017 model year.
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We have small 12v fans that we use on boat and in TC. They are USB. No need for hookups, use minimal power. It is very helpful to blow some warm air up into bed area if you do not have ducted heat.
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deltabravo wrote:
It's not the problem of "the furnace Northwood puts in their campers" it's where it's located in the AFs: In the slide out (except the 865). With it being there, you can't run ducting anywhere else in the camper.
That doesn't make any sense at all, especially in a "4-season" camper.
Years ago I had a TT with a radiant heat furnace so there was no ducting anywhere, the bathroom was always freezing.
We camped in temps well below freezing and the furnace kept the rest of the trailer toasty warm.
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I solved that problem by installing a 2nd propane gas light in the bathroom. It would warm up the bathroom on cold morning in about 15 minutes. I'm quite sure that this would be more difficult to do in newer TCs.
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