Joke answer: Get enough speed, she’ll fit!
Yeah, it is “7 Feet” exactly, but the flimsy vent cover exceeds this by a tiny bit. I think a couple people could get ‘er done by hand.
I need to get it in the garage. Or hitch it up and drive south till nobody knows what an ice scraper is for.
What about, a tarp? Leave it outside.
Yes, but 8 ft. high garage doors are available. He just needs to get one of those.
And an 8 foot high garage to install it in.
That will make it easier to install the 8 ft. door.
I doubt very much that the garage ceiling is 7’. But the header for the door might be. Or it might not.
It may be possible to disconnect it from the garage door opener (just pull the handle) and using a couple of 2x4s to brace push the door up a few more inches. Leverage is the key here. Place a 7’4" 2x4 under the door where it’s lip hangs down. Then push the bottom of the 2x4 till it get’s vertical. Be careful that you don’t twang the door. It may have room to go up though.
You may be able to do the same with a door that does not have a garage door opener.
Success! Great Joy in Camp. Looks like the vents really need something more low profile. A buddy and I were able to finangle it through. The sticking point was actually the sill of the garage, after that it was smooth sailing.
It’s a trailer camper, and I should be able to look it over much better and get it setup for towing. Hitch height, and tongue weight.
Speaking of, maybe this would be a better general question, why can’t tongue weight be measured directly without all these contortions? Can’t I take a scale and, level trailer as much as possible, and slide a scale under the lift jack. The following technique looks suspiciously like Math! (Blocks, steel pipes, beams dimensions, etc. I’m just a simple guy, want to weigh the hitch. I can probably source most of that stuff in the garage but it looks pretty convoluted. I can only assume this is the only weigh, er way, to get an accurate measurement. Why is this?
See link: How can I calculate my tongue weight? - Venture Trailers
I don’t know much about trailers or levers, but it looks like the idea of the contraption on that website is to only put a low weight on the scale. If you real tongue weight is 450 pounds, that probably exceeds what your scale can measure. Their system reduces it 4 to 1, so you’re scale will show 112 pounds; well within a bathroom scale’s limits.
That makes sense. Thank You! This camping trailer is ~ 1600 pounds, and it is important when loading gear so as to achieve a certain percentage within 10% to 15% of weight over the hitch, or generally more forward than aft. There’s nothing in it now, so want to see what it weighs on the hitch.
Also able to crawl around out of the elements and look at the wiring, maybe improve grounds, make sure wiring is tight. The build quality is better than maybe I thought it would be, sort of.
Sure, you can get an 8’ tall door, or a 10’ for that matter. But they cannot easily be installed in a standard height garage because the door header is a 12" x 3" beam right at the top of the door. And generally there is no way to install one up higher anyway.
What you can do, and we offered this to customers of my son’s construction business, is to raise the entire garage. I developed a way to do this quite simply. One person can do it and I have done it several times.
I’m happy to report that playing with blocks as a kid paid off here. With a little careful wooden pilings the bathroom scale promptly replied gibberish, but if I squinted I could tell it (sort of) said “Batt”. It didn’t like the 50° F. temps. After a brief interlude finding a new CR2032… Tada!
came in at 200 pounds, a bit higher than expected, maybe not. The official dry hitch weight (or tongue weight) is 186 pounds. I should have removed the propane tank(for sure?) since it weighs 17 pounds empty.
I think it’s always better to measure, not guess. Now the question becomes how loading up 21 gallons of freshwater translates into hitch weight. It’s winter, so I don’t want to mess with that.
Somewhere I read it’s best to either have them full, or empty, when driving. A half tank or so, weighing over 100 pounds, may slosh around causing trailer handling problems?
Think these guys are busted! An FMVSS 571 violation!!! This sounds serious.
There are fourteen (14) pounds wholly unaccounted for here. Just so happens to coincide with the weight of the propane. Coincidence? You decide (and the nicklefvckers at the RV shop didn’t even top off the tank is what it looks like.
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To Wit:
S9.3.2 The weight value for load carrying capacity on the RV load carrying capacity labels (Figures 3 and 4) must be displayed to the nearest kilogram with conversion to the nearest pound and must be such that the vehicle does not exceed its GVWR when loaded with the stated load carrying capacity.
The UVW and the GVWR used to determine the RV’s load carrying capacity must reflect the weights and design of the motor home or RV trailer as configured for delivery to the dealer/service facility. If applicable, the weight of full propane tanks must be included in the RV’s UVW and the weight of on-board potable water must be treated as cargo.