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Posted By: Boatycall on 08/28/17 10:20am

I'd like to start a pic dump of TC Fails.

I'd to see ones you personally witnessed and snapped a pic of, because you'd likely also have a little bit of a back-story. Now, Google is full of them. If you think you've found one that's noteworthy, that's ok too.

I have two - A Host Everest on a 3/4 ton at a local dealer, and a TC that got blown off it's jacks during a wind storm here.

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Posted By: SidecarFlip on 08/28/17 10:26am

I never take pictures of peoples stupidity. Why would any rational person leave a camper on extended jacks anyway? I always lower mine as close to the ground as possible when sitting off truck and...

The Host is beyond a doubt more than the truck can handle. Poor Chebby....

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Posted By: kohldad on 08/28/17 10:50am

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Why would any rational person leave a camper on extended jacks anyway?


Because it's a pain to lower it down 20" with manual jacks and even more of a pain to raise it back up to truck bed height. Any time mine is off the truck, it is at truck bed height because of this reason. However, as soon as the truck is out from under it, I have a pair of saw horses placed under it that will easily carry the entire weight of the camper.

But yeah, to leave it at full height without something steadying the camper isn't very smart.

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Posted By: Lwiddis on 08/28/17 01:51pm

That's the only fear I had with my old TC...falling over...DW had other issues with it.

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Posted By: azrving on 08/28/17 03:15pm

kohldad wrote:

Quote:

Why would any rational person leave a camper on extended jacks anyway?


Because it's a pain to lower it down 20" with manual jacks and even more of a pain to raise it back up to truck bed height. Any time mine is off the truck, it is at truck bed height because of this reason. However, as soon as the truck is out from under it, I have a pair of saw horses placed under it that will easily carry the entire weight of the camper.

But yeah, to leave it at full height without something steadying the camper isn't very smart.



Would ">]this heavy duty 1/2 inch work? It's been a long time so I actually dont remember how difficult my old TC were.

Posted By: jimh406 on 08/28/17 03:41pm

Some may disagree that this is a fail.

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Posted By: kohldad on 08/28/17 03:43pm

Link doesn't work, but assume you are talking about a cordless drill. I use a drill on mine, but it's still a pain because you can only run each jack about 10 turns before you have to move to the next jack. That's a lot of walking around the camper. Even with the drill, it can take 30 minutes to lower the camper all the way down.

I made the sawhorse and it take a minute to throw them under the camper and only about 30 minutes. Since I only unload in the storage yard, never on the road, it works great for me.

Posted By: tattoobob on 08/28/17 04:19pm

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This is anyone who drives the beaches worst nightmare

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Posted By: SidecarFlip on 08/28/17 04:52pm

kohldad wrote:

Quote:

Why would any rational person leave a camper on extended jacks anyway?


Because it's a pain to lower it down 20" with manual jacks and even more of a pain to raise it back up to truck bed height. Any time mine is off the truck, it is at truck bed height because of this reason. However, as soon as the truck is out from under it, I have a pair of saw horses placed under it that will easily carry the entire weight of the camper.

But yeah, to leave it at full height without something steadying the camper isn't very smart.


Interesting, I have manual jacks on mine, for 2 reasons. One, the price of electric jacks which was an option was 1500 bucks and 2, I'm cheap.

Having said that. I carry my trusty DeWalt cordless drill and I have a jack adapter (came free with the camper, in fact I have 2 (one for a spare). Lowering my jacks is about a 3 minute painless job with the drill. Mine sits as close to terra firma as possible when off the truck. No pain at all on my part. The DeWalt does the work.

Posted By: SidecarFlip on 08/28/17 05:48pm

Was coming back from Northern Michigan yesterday and saw a gooseneck trailer going the other way with a TC on it plus a side by side and assorted stuff...

Why pull a trailer behind your camper when you can put the camper on a trailer and take everything along...

They don't call us 'dirtbaggers' for no reason.....

Posted By: SidecarFlip on 08/28/17 05:49pm

tattoobob wrote:

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This is anyone who drives the beaches worst nightmare


There us 'water intrusion' at it's best.......[emoticon]

Posted By: jimh406 on 08/28/17 06:00pm

SidecarFlip wrote:

They don't call us 'dirtbaggers' for no reason.....


Must be a MI or WV thing. Still haven't heard anyone other than you use the term. I was able to look it up in the Urban Dictionary, but still don't see how it applies.

Posted By: SidecarFlip on 08/28/17 06:02pm

jimh425 wrote:

SidecarFlip wrote:

They don't call us 'dirtbaggers' for no reason.....


Must be a MI or WV thing. Still haven't heard anyone other than you use the term. I was able to look it up in the Urban Dictionary, but still don't see how it applies.


Might be a Michigan thing. Not West Virginia. They still use tents down there....

Posted By: WVbassmistress on 08/29/17 08:40am

Might be a Michigan thing. Not West Virginia. They still use tents down there....

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Posted By: 54suds on 08/29/17 08:47am

"Do not feed the troll"

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Posted By: azrving on 08/29/17 08:51am

Not trolling at all imo. I had a TC and bought a lake lot in Mi and the first thing the neighbors said before a tree was ever cut down is NO mobile homes allowed here. Who said anything about a mobile? People associate TC with dirt bag. After my $200,000 "cottage" went up I did realize who the dirt bags are. They were all down stater at one time but after they move up there they become the pure bloods and everyone else is a dirt bag down stater.

Posted By: SidecarFlip on 08/31/17 11:59am

Dirt bags come in many sizes, shapes and sexes. Usually have loud generators, toss their trash everywhere, have yapping dogs and ill behaved children (and a lot of them), leave their outside lights on all night and play their stereo through outside speakers at full volume day or night. When the vacate a campsite they leave all their trash everywhere for someone else to clean up.

Usually, but not always, their outfits are beat to death and they have a odor about them like a week out of a shower and sweating every day...

You all know the type, the ones who never lift the lid to pee at the showers and never flush the commode and if the do take a shower (rare), they don't bother turning the water off.

Dirtbags are everywhere, not just in TC's....

Posted By: Freep on 08/31/17 07:47pm

jimh425 wrote:

SidecarFlip wrote:

They don't call us 'dirtbaggers' for no reason.....


Must be a MI or WV thing. Still haven't heard anyone other than you use the term. I was able to look it up in the Urban Dictionary, but still don't see how it applies.


There are Florida dirtbags.

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Posted By: jimh406 on 08/31/17 07:49pm

Freep wrote:

There are Florida dirtbags.


Probably, but not all TC owners are. [emoticon]

Posted By: joerg68 on 09/01/17 02:45am

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creative hole for taillight wiring...
Oh, you meant another type of fail?

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Posted By: tattoobob on 09/14/17 07:58pm

I found this gem I had to show my wife it's so bad I wouldn't want to be behind him when the tailgate lets go and the ratchet strap fails

Epic Fail

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Posted By: SidecarFlip on 09/14/17 08:02pm

Ouch......

Posted By: lakeside013104 on 09/15/17 05:08am

tattoobob wrote:

I found this gem I had to show my wife it's so bad I wouldn't want to be behind him when the tailgate lets go and the ratchet strap fails

Epic Fail

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From a dead stop, slam the throttle to the floor. See what happens next. Take plenty of pictures.

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Posted By: SidecarFlip on 09/15/17 06:29am

It's actually a nice camper. Too bad the truck is way too short and the tie downs are inadequate.

Posted By: zcookiemonstar on 09/16/17 12:44am

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Posted By: Axle on 10/04/17 02:21pm

Saw this rig in front of the local Ford dealership a couple of months ago.

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Yikes!

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Posted By: DWeikert on 10/04/17 02:25pm

zcookiemonstar wrote:

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ad on craigslist

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Interesting popup design. Anybody recognize it?

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Posted By: cewillis on 10/04/17 02:34pm

tattoobob wrote:

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This is anyone who drives the beaches worst nightmare


First prize -- no doubt about it. (but why did the tie-downs fail?)

Cal


Posted By: tattoobob on 10/04/17 03:46pm

cewillis wrote:

tattoobob wrote:

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This is anyone who drives the beaches worst nightmare


First prize -- no doubt about it. (but why did the tie-downs fail?)


I wondered the same thing all I could come up with is there is a truck under the camper and that truck in the distance is not the truck for the camper

Posted By: work2much on 01/01/18 05:37pm

Ran into this in a another forum. This has to take the cake.


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Posted By: SidecarFlip on 01/01/18 07:19pm

tattoobob wrote:

cewillis wrote:

tattoobob wrote:

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This is anyone who drives the beaches worst nightmare


First prize -- no doubt about it. (but why did the tie-downs fail?)


I wondered the same thing all I could come up with is there is a truck under the camper and that truck in the distance is not the truck for the camper


Least we now know a Lance can float...for a while at least....[emoticon]

Posted By: SidecarFlip on 01/01/18 07:23pm

work2much wrote:

Ran into this in a another forum. This has to take the cake.


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The caption should be.....'BUILT FORD TOUGH'.....[emoticon]

That is a Ranger isn't it????

Posted By: free radical on 01/01/18 09:32pm

Not an RV not fail,yet..

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Posted By: Groover on 01/02/18 07:36am

work2much wrote:

Ran into this in a another forum. This has to take the cake.


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I am sure that it would be OK without the snow load on the roof.

Posted By: joerg68 on 01/02/18 08:04am

...and I don't think there is any sway left, the rear axle is probably pinned to the frame. But I am surprised the front wheels still appear to be on the ground.

Posted By: whizbang on 01/03/18 08:05am

This double slide Host was parked in front of a construction site on Holmes Point Way in Kirkland, WA for about a year. I think one of the workers was living in it. I don't know the load capacity of the truck, but, the Host weighs a whole bunch --- certainly more than a SRW truck can handle...
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Posted By: Kayteg1 on 01/03/18 08:51am

Just becouse it has Host on it - doesn't have to be heavy.
Newer 12 footers/triple slides weight a lot. The one on the picture looks like 10 footer, single slide, so SRW might be fine, depends on details.
Jacks are up and I don't see big sag.




Posted By: DiskDoctr on 01/03/18 01:45pm

joerg68 wrote:

...But I am surprised the front wheels still appear to be on the ground.


Must have that "hinged frame" option [emoticon] LOL.

But yeah, tire rub and failure can be a real problem.

Posted By: SidecarFlip on 01/03/18 03:28pm

Kayteg1 wrote:

Just becouse it has Host on it - doesn't have to be heavy.
Newer 12 footers/triple slides weight a lot. The one on the picture looks like 10 footer, single slide, so SRW might be fine, depends on details.
Jacks are up and I don't see big sag.


Probably has 120 psi in the bags too......[emoticon]

Posted By: work2much on 01/04/18 09:46am

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Posted By: Kayteg1 on 01/04/18 10:06am

work2much wrote:

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That's a solution for no clearance over the cab.
Why didn't I think about it. [emoticon]

Posted By: joerg68 on 01/04/18 11:52am

I think it is a rear slideout.

Posted By: jmckelvy on 01/04/18 12:35pm

joerg68 wrote:

I think it is a rear slideout.


LOL [emoticon]

I'd say the CG of that setup is somewhere close to the rear bumper.

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Posted By: work2much on 01/04/18 07:06pm

Another angle someone posted on FB

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Posted By: csh_2088 on 01/04/18 07:17pm

Not so much a truck camper fail as a camper on a truck fail.

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Posted By: Camper_Jeff_&_Kelli on 01/04/18 08:16pm

csh_2088 wrote:

Not so much a truck camper fail as a camper on a truck fail.

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Rudimentary but it looks like some of the jeep top tent systems being sold now.

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Posted By: Kayteg1 on 01/04/18 08:39pm

csh_2088 wrote:

Not so much a truck camper fail as a camper on a truck fail.

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More like trailer on truck.
My neighbor has TT like that. Some of them have shower, sink and porta-potty.
Most of them have furnace and can be AC equipped.
Looks to me like this setup has potential for very long gravity dump for sewer.

Posted By: gitpicker2009 on 01/05/18 08:27am

Not quite a TC, but definitely a fail[emoticon]

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-5238257/Motorhome-held-BUNGEE-ROPE-spotted-road.html

Posted By: whizbang on 01/05/18 06:03pm

A 10 foot double slide Host isn't 4500# or more and too much for a SRW???

Posted By: whazoo on 01/06/18 05:19pm

work2much wrote:

Another angle someone posted on FB

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Beats hell outta throwing a few sand bags in the bed for extra weight and traction. Totally genius.

Posted By: burningman on 01/06/18 05:46pm

csh_2088 wrote:

Not so much a truck camper fail as a camper on a truck fail.

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What exactly is “fail” about that? It’s not as good looking as everyone else’s $70,000 truck and $50,000 camper?
Looks like it works pretty welll. And has a lot of cargo room too.

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Posted By: towpro on 01/06/18 07:34pm

I can't picture the top would take much highway wind. the cables down to hood make me think that if this is real, he does not lower it. Plus its got to be pretty tall.

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Posted By: burningman on 01/07/18 12:23pm

You really think that gets driven with the top up?
It’s not on the street in the photo it’s parked.
I’d give whoever owns it a little more credit than that. It doesn’t look torn to shreds does it?

Posted By: Kayteg1 on 01/07/18 12:54pm

Besides... you have tent trailer/camper who still is bear-proof.

Posted By: K Mac on 01/10/18 05:01pm

burningman wrote:

csh_2088 wrote:

Not so much a truck camper fail as a camper on a truck fail.

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What exactly is “fail” about that? It’s not as good looking as everyone else’s $70,000 truck and $50,000 camper?
Looks like it works pretty welll. And has a lot of cargo room too.
They need the Extra long Glowstep.

Posted By: Bedlam on 01/10/18 10:34pm

towpro wrote:

I can't picture the top would take much highway wind. the cables down to hood make me think that if this is real, he does not lower it. Plus its got to be pretty tall.

I think those are dual whip antennas on fender mounts and not cables from the camper.

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Posted By: Fisherman on 01/11/18 06:13pm

work2much wrote:

Ran into this in a another forum. This has to take the cake.


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Well at least there's some icing on the cake.

Posted By: Boatycall on 01/11/18 06:30pm

I saw this on another website today.....

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Posted By: JumboJet on 01/11/18 07:14pm

Boatycall wrote:

I saw this on another website today.....

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I would almost believe that rig could "pop-a-wheelie".

Posted By: B-n-B on 01/11/18 10:20pm

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Posted By: Kayteg1 on 01/11/18 10:56pm

B-n-B wrote:

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Do you REALLY think he's got shower in there?

Posted By: spacedoutbob on 01/15/18 12:49am

I don't have a photo, but about 39 years ago a guy came into out gas station for gas. He had a 10/1/2' Vacationeer Self Contained camper sitting on a lifted, GMC shortbed stepside 1/2 ton pickup. I asked him about his set up, he said that a spring shop added overloads and re-arced the other leaf springs, that was how he could carry his camper on his truck. I never forgot that one.

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Posted By: SidecarFlip on 01/16/18 09:32am

JumboJet wrote:

Boatycall wrote:

I saw this on another website today.....

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I would almost believe that rig could "pop-a-wheelie".


Like the one on the Ranger in the gasoline station. Get on the loud pedal and be looking at the sky....

When I was a kid, my grandpa had a tree farm and we always overloaded his flat bed truck with balled trees. It had a stick and I remember gramps popping the front wheels off the ground much to out enjoyment.

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