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wizenheimer said:
I've had all three...Trailer, Camper, 5th Wheel...so I'll list some of my pros & cons for each

* trailer...for comparable length you get a little more room; plus a standup bedroom. You also get mechanical advantage when backing up since the pivot point (hitch) is 3-4 feet behind the rear tires

* camper: unlike trailers and 5th wheels you don't have the expense of 4 extra tires (plus spares), axels, shocks, brakes, etc. You also, if you like to go to the forests and deserts and travel of rough roads have the most maneuverable RV option. But campers are small and are a pain in the ass to load and unload. If you find someplace you're like to stay, then you either have to go thru the effort of unloading so you can use your truck, or you have to pull a toad....which means tow a car or a Jeep, etc.

and new campers with slideouts are frigging heavy...and expensive. As in over two tons and 60-75K. And you either need a dually to carry that weight, or something like 20-ply tires with high load ratings. And since those tires weigh in (with rims) in the 170-300 pound range....good luck changing a tire if you get a flat

we had a Lance camper for 10 years and went all over the place, including some roads only suitable for 4 wheel drive. But again, it was either spend a night than move on, or go thru the major hassle of unloading...then loading back up when we wanted to move

* we now have a 5th wheel. It's a small one, 24 feet, with no slide-out (which adds anywhere from 1200 to 1800 pounds just for the steel). By myself I can hitch up and load the 5th wheel and be ready to roll in 5-10 minutes. A trailer takes 2 to 3 times longer, and many require a driver and spotter. Now, as I mentioned with trailers, the mechanical advantage of the hitch being behind the tires makes it easier to back up. With a 5th wheel, the pivot point is directly above the rear tires so it's slower to complete a turn and it reacts slower. You have to anticipate more with a 5th wheel.

But, there is a huge advantage if you're driving down a road with strong side winds. That trailer's mechanical advantage becomes a big disadvantage and can push you all over the road. With a 5th wheel, the wind force is blunted by loading directly over the rear tires. I've driven the 5th wheel easily (relatively) thru winds I would have probably parked the trailer in. And a camper really lifts your center of gravity so it can be unnerving in strong wind too

now, these 5th wheels that are so massive appearing when you're approaching them going the other direction is because they have full walk in bedrooms in that front section. If you get a smaller 5th wheel that has more of a camper bedroom extension, they don't have that massive front profile. Some of those monsters are 13-14 feet tall. Ours is around 10'9, and that's after I reversed the springs to lift the 5th wheel for more clearance on rougher roads. That way I mitigate the possibility of dragging the back end in a ditch of gully. It also gave me more room to add quality shocks

(speaking of which, one thing I learned, an expensive lesson, is that if you go thru a ditch with a camper, you risk tearing the back jacks off by bottoming them out on the ground...thank god for insurance)

If I was only interested in going from RV park to RV park, I'd probably have a trailer. But we rarely go to RV parks and instead dry camp about 90% of the time. I had a service bed put on the pickup (F350 Diesel) so the 5th wheel seemed the best option since I have plenty of space for camping cargo
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Thanks professor!

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Hoopguru said:
Then I got this one
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Nice accessories
 
Idog1976 said:
I will agree those are rumors about GSW, but they sounded quite plausible as did the Toronto rumors. I believe GSW is trying to retool with an eye toward the future and Draymond might very well be on the block. IMO, both of those GMs are excellent.
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The GM that traded Powell for Trent Jr. and then gave Trent Jr. a worse contract than Powell got?

The GM that made the boneheaded mistake of drafting Scottie Barnes over Jalen Suggs?

Ujiri hasn't been particularly good since trading for Kawhi.

His whole plan is to get a bunch of playmaking, ball-handling forwards (Siakam, Barnes, Simmons, etc). It won't work.
 
Ripcity4life77 said:
As much as I am not on the NeO hate train as some I will admit NeO seems to have a weakness for trying to revive careers of busts see Mo Harkless , Giles and I am sure I am missing a couple others but you get the point. As much as the reward for doing so can be high sometimes you can miss out on something better or more stable and very possible the Blazers have cause of this weakness but again I could be wrong.
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I have a very hard time seeing Giles as a bust knowing that a coach like Stotts makes decisions concerning playing time.
 
Paine Tablet said:
I have a very hard time seeing Giles as a bust knowing that a coach like Stotts makes decisions concerning playing time.
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Can’t blame Giles on Stotts, hes just not good. No functional strength and a low bball IQ. Would be surprised to see him in the league next season. He needs to go to Europe and learn how to play basketball. He’s still got age on his side.
 
Orion Bailey said:
the runs made on us without any adjustments was infuriating.
Also no adjustments on O. How many times have we seen Dame trapped.
Stotts good coach. takes a great to elite coach to go deep into the playoffs consistently.

I also think Stotts style wained. Billups fresh breath can possibly be all it really takes to change our game which in turn maximizes our talents and masks our deficiencies.
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You just wait it's guaranteed there will be a substantial list of people who hate Billups and say that it must be some sort of dementia that resulted in us selecting him. It's happened with every coach we've hired and whatever GM we have will get the blame for this fantasy dementia.
There's only one coach that I felt shouldn't have been there and another that I thought wasn't too good. The wasn't to good one was Rolland Todd our very first cosch. The one that should never have been hired was Msurice Cheeks.
 
dviss1 said:
Now that is ready for the zombie apocalypse!
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you'd end up a zombie if you had to change a flat tire on that thing. I think the tire weighs over 300 pounds and the spare is mounted on a mini-crane. For chrissakes, the RV weight over 18 tons. It probably takes 3 men and a weekend just to mange a jack that can lift that rig

it has split rims with 18 lug nuts

prices start at 1.5M!
 
wizenheimer said:
you'd end up a zombie if you had to change a flat tire on that thing. I think the tire weighs over 300 pounds and the spare is mounted on a mini-crane. For chrissakes, the RV weight over 18 tons. It probably takes 3 men and a weekend just to mange a jack that can lift that rig

it has split rims with 18 lug nuts

prices start at 1.5M!
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For that money those tires better not EVER get flat! ;)
 
dviss1 said:
For that money those tires better not EVER get flat! ;)
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I don't think you want what is marketed as run-flat tires for off-roading... you want tires with a stiff sidewall that you can air-down and some kind of a beadlock system to ensure the tire moves in step with the wheel in low-pressure situations if you really want to go crazy.

But, generally speaking, off-road or all-terrain tires will have stiff sidewalls and usually have stiff belts to handle sharp rocks etc.. - so are less likely to have punctures. But they still might...
 
Orion Bailey said:
sorry for the thread derail!
But… @Hoopguru did it!!!
*turns and runs*
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Haha... it's all good. This was a fun derailment unlike some of the others. I live at the base of Lake Tahoe (Reno) and it's boat/rv central in our valley. Some people brought their trailers and RVs down from the lake who are being evacuated so those are the lucky ones who have a place...
 
andalusian said:
I don't think you want what is marketed as run-flat tires for off-roading... you want tires with a stiff sidewall that you can air-down and some kind of a beadlock system to ensure the tire moves in step with the wheel in low-pressure situations if you really want to go crazy.

But, generally speaking, off-road or all-terrain tires will have stiff sidewalls and usually have stiff belts to handle sharp rocks etc.. - so are less likely to have punctures. But they still might...
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yeah, if you're traveling on lots of rocky roads, like in Eastern Oregon for instance, the last thing you want to cheap-screw is your tires. You also want to control your speed, because even very durable tires can be punctured by a sharp rock when you're doing 40 mph, especially if you have a heavy rig
 
wizenheimer said:
yeah, if you're traveling on lots of rocky roads, like in Eastern Oregon for instance, the last thing you want to cheap-screw is your tires. You also want to control your speed, because even very durable tires can be punctured by a sharp rock when you're doing 40 mph, especially if you have a heavy rig
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Michelin - Les Schwab.
 
wizenheimer said:
actually, Toyo makes a more durable rough road tire
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For all terrain tires I like Yokohoma Geolander if it is used mostly on the highway with occasional off-road use (much less noise than other A/T tires, in my experience). If you are going off-road mostly, hard to beat the BFGoodrich T/A K02
 
wizenheimer said:
actually, Toyo makes a more durable rough road tire
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I've had about three sets of Toyos and at least ten sets of Michelins and I prefer the Michelins. I'll give you this, I had the second best luck with all my tires in over 50 years with Toyos and yes they are very durable but they don't grip the road like Michilins. Pirellis grip the road the best but they are by far the least durable tire I've ever had. Had reasonable luck with Goodyear and I will never again do business with Firestone because of the shabby way they treated me when I went in with a claim of poor quality on a product of theirs.
We bought four studless snow tires for our new Volvo and they were outstanding in the last ice storm. We were able to go up and down a steep hill in our neighborhood that had ice on it a without chains and had the same good luck with snow and slush on level ground. We do have the advantage of all wheel drive but I feel comfortable driving with these tires in any kind of weather.
Les Schwab used to provide free flat tire replacement with your spare on the road if you were a woman and they've replaced about four tires for free for me when I lived in an apartment with planters in the parking lot that had a border made out of concrete and I kept hitting the thing when I was parking my car a little too hastily. Les Schwab never complained but just prorated the tire and replaced it. They've also prorated some batteries for me and replaced them. Always, the labor was free. They also used to change anyone's tires to snow tires and back for free. They have now quit doing that unless you bought your tires there.
 
Lanny said:
I've had about three sets of Toyos and at least ten sets of Michelins and I prefer the Michelins. I'll give you this, I had the second best luck with all my tires in over 50 years with Toyos and yes they are very durable but they don't grip the road like Michilins. Pirellis grip the road the best but they are by far the least durable tire I've ever had. Had reasonable luck with Goodyear and I will never again do business with Firestone because of the shabby way they treated me when I went in with a claim of poor quality on a product of theirs.
We bought four studless snow tires for our new Volvo and they were outstanding in the last ice storm. We were able to go up and down a steep hill in our neighborhood that had ice on it a without chains and had the same good luck with snow and slush on level ground. We do have the advantage of all wheel drive but I feel comfortable driving with these tires in any kind of weather.
Les Schwab used to provide free flat tire replacement with your spare on the road if you were a woman and they've replaced about four tires for free for me when I lived in an apartment with planters in the parking lot that had a border made out of concrete and I kept hitting the thing when I was parking my car a little too hastily. Les Schwab never complained but just prorated the tire and replaced it. They've also prorated some batteries for me and replaced them. Always, the labor was free. They also used to change anyone's tires to snow tires and back for free. They have now quit doing that unless you bought your tires there.
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the Toyo tires I have are on my F350. That rig is used almost exclusively for pulling an RV to a camping spot, and then driving around for days with that camping spot as a base. So, more than half of the driving is on gravel roads. Which means my primary concern is resistance to punctures....flats. I had some tires before the Toyos....IIRC they were Goodyear, but were made by Michelin. Had 4 flats with those; and they were noisy on the road and had a tendency to wander if I didn't pay attention. I'll stick with Toyo

the downside is they are expensive. As in about 370 dollars each (balanced and mounted). And bad experience has caused me to actually carry two spares for both the pickup and 5th wheel. Nothing like the excitement of having a flat, meaning no spare, and being 80 miles from the nearest tire store with 40 of those miles being on gravel roads.....and all without cell phone service. That can get your giblets quivering.

anyway, with 2 spares, I add those to the tire rotations every 5000 miles which means at 15,000 miles all my tires only have 10,000 miles of wear. Which is good because a new set of 6 tires is about $2200....yikes! Now, those tires are 265/R17 so maybe that's about the cost of any quality 16 ply all terrain tire
 
With Lauri Markkanen, there were really some intense talks over a five or six-day period where Cleveland was discussing three second-round picks, and then Chicago was holding firm on wanting a first-round pick. Then, Cleveland was able to get the first-round pick from Portland for Larry Nance Jr.,but then Chicago also wanted a second-round pick on top of that, and there was some frustration from some of the parties involved because it seemed like the goal post was being moved a bit. Markkanen originally thought he was going to go to San Antonio on a three-year deal as part of the DeMar DeRozan sign-and-trade. Lauri made it clear in that report with a Finland reporter, and then, he also had a conversation with Arturas (Karnisovas) privately where he expressed that he didn’t want to be back. To get a first-round pick back for him, Arturas got what he wanted, Lauri got his fresh start. It worked out for everyone. It just took longer.
https://hoopshype.com/lists/nba-offseason-winners-knicks-lakers-bulls-heat-wizards/
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Doesn’t sound like Portland was targeting Markkanen, which sounded off from the beginning.
 
wizenheimer said:
the Toyo tires I have are on my F350. That rig is used almost exclusively for pulling an RV to a camping spot, and then driving around for days with that camping spot as a base. So, more than half of the driving is on gravel roads. Which means my primary concern is resistance to punctures....flats. I had some tires before the Toyos....IIRC they were Goodyear, but were made by Michelin. Had 4 flats with those; and they were noisy on the road and had a tendency to wander if I didn't pay attention. I'll stick with Toyo

the downside is they are expensive. As in about 370 dollars each (balanced and mounted). And bad experience has caused me to actually carry two spares for both the pickup and 5th wheel. Nothing like the excitement of having a flat, meaning no spare, and being 80 miles from the nearest tire store with 40 of those miles being on gravel roads.....and all without cell phone service. That can get your giblets quivering.

anyway, with 2 spares, I add those to the tire rotations every 5000 miles which means at 15,000 miles all my tires only have 10,000 miles of wear. Which is good because a new set of 6 tires is about $2200....yikes! Now, those tires are 265/R17 so maybe that's about the cost of any quality 16 ply all terrain tire
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E Rated tires?
 
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