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It sounds like your decision is made, but you need to be careful about the “rated for” numbers on a spring pack. sag happens on the first 1-3 leaves, depending on the pack. The full rating is achieved when the pack compresses enough to use all the leaves (already sagged) If the eye to eye...

I had similar from a 1/2 gallon jar of salsa! The best (worst?) might be the quart of honey that broke open in my new Orvis luggage flying back from Vermont though!

Depending on your budget, there is another option for a set of salvage yard springs plus your install time. In urban areas a lot of trucks run around empty most of the time, and those springs can be really lightly used. If you have never done suspension work before, triple your install time...

Had more fails than I can count as a scout and leader. Kids making pudding with dried milk (never sets up without fat), trying to heat beans in the can and melting the plastic can liner into the beans. Trying to heat canned soup that had frozen and watching the steam/boil push a piston of...

Somehow forgot to puncture baked potatoes before burying them in the coals on the edge of the fire. It isn’t really a “boom”… more like a “chuff” and a geyser of hot coal/potato that ruins your food, your camp gear, and your mood.

I have no idea who they are, and I’ve never tried to contact them myself, but it feels like a lot of cautionary tales start with similar stories. I really wanted to buy xx product from xx company. They make the best stuff ever, but they are passionate enthusiasts not no-fun bean-counting...

I used to work for a large industrial company that used Partner Steel for fabrication work to the tune of several million annually. I’m guessing stoves are a tiny portion of their business based more on their hobbies than anything.

When Americans use the term “propane”, they generally mean LPG. Typical commercial LPG is about 85-90% propane if I remember correctly. There is no conversion needed, your stove will burn LPG beautifully.

Thats strange. All of my kids did that for years! Actually reminds me of a funny story. My 8 year old daughter and I got caught in a storm at about 9k’ in the Sierra Nevada camping in one of our rooftop tents. Early in the morning she wakes me up, wind ripping through the pass, a steady...

I think the specific answer to your question is that the whole box is considered in axle placement. The subframe is only necessary to hold the axles, so many types of trailers have a tongue and integrated subframe that goes back to the rearmost axle mount and no further, then the weight is...

Kids change so fast from 0-6 years that any long term planning you think you’re doing is virtually wasted. The stuff you need now is different than what you needed 6 months ago and different than what you will need in 6 months. Ask the crates of outgrown snow clothes in my closet how they came...

Selling the rear bumper and tire carrier off my JKUR. Smittybilt Atlas, customized to fit with Gobi rack, added ammo box storage, custom vertical hi-lift mount, wiring mount for Mopar 7-pin harness, and rear antenna and brake light mount. Holds 2 Jerry cans, I usually carry 1 gas and 1 water...

I fall somewhere in the middle of the various arguments posted here, so I find it hard to care, but I did consider this guy comical. Taken this morning on H1 in Honolulu right after reading the first 2 pages of this thread. You can see the rear brake (drum?) on the left. That means these...

Also consider that the commonly available home center stuff is electro plated, and it can be a real PITA to paint or powder coat. You can order raw steel from an electrical supply house if you’re going to be doing custom welding or paint/powder.

It should be pretty simple to go to the UPS website, put in the pack dimensions, and se approximately what the price to your place is. Just remember that they probably come in a box, so add something for that, but $40 sounds about like what shipping cross country costs these days. Maybe you...

It is subjectively very strong. The Unistrut catalog has all sorts of basic engineering data published in it. You can figure out the load supported at various spans at least. With proper triangular bracing at the corners, I wouldn’t hesitate to use it for a rack. I’ve used it for rooftop tent...

For the use case you are describing, I think it is hard to go wrong with one of the small soft-shell tents like the Tepui Ayer (not sure if Thule uses the same names). Easily holds 2-3 kids, is perfect for solo trips, light enough to hang from a garage roof, small enough to have over your 5.5...

? This is great! Brings back the memories. As a kid I had the bright idea to use one of those Boy Scout cardboard/paraffin tuna can candles they used to teach you to make inside my snow cave. There is a certain art to matching the size of your fire to the size of your cave, and a certain...

I haven’t towed my max coupler very much, maybe 4-5000 miles at this point, but I am starting to think that a pintle would be easier to live with. Certainly hooking up is a pain when you aren’t on a hard surface that you can easily roll the trailer on. My kids aren’t old enough to be decent...

Hahaha! My point of highest glory was getting a service truck (F450? Maybe 550? It was a few decades back) stuck in the middle of a wet clay road through a dip in one of the mines I worked in. It was less than 1” deep, probably closer to 3/8, but it was the most slippery surface I’ve ever...