NEU 064 : New England Unit "Spring into Camping" Rally

[yukionna]

Originally Posted by myboyburt

Hee hee! If it isn't one of us I'm willing to bet they will be asking to move pretty quick!

Actually, I later found out that the deciding factor in the other trailer's decision to move was because they realized what they were parked in the middle of and didn't want to have any part of!

[Chuck]

Originally Posted by myboyburt

Bring as much wood as you can. Leon and I will be doing the same thing but we are many miles from the campground so that limits what we can load into the truck and still tow "The Tube" safely.

Don't bother. I live 10 miles from the campground, on a large, wooded lot,and have lots of firewood that will otherwise go to waste if its not used for camp fires. no fireplace...don't heat w/ wood. but there are always limbs coming down, or entire trees, which wind up getting cut and stacked somewhere. anyway, on a normal outing, I don't have a whole lot of extra space to carry it, so I don't typically bother. But with this outing being so close, it would be no trouble to make a special trip, just for firewood.

Originally Posted by myboyburt

We also need to figure out how to get our Unit's trailer with all it's rally stuff to the site so that we have the tent and cooking thingies.

If a "staging area" would be helpful, I have plenty of room at my house. I don't know where the trailer lives, but if it would be helpful, it could be moved to my house a week or 2 before the event...whatever people's schedules allow...then its just a short trip from my house to the rally site on opening day.

[myboyburt]

Originally Posted by chuck

If a "staging area" would be helpful, I have plenty of room at my house. I don't know where the trailer lives, but if it would be helpful, it could be moved to my house a week or 2 before the event...whatever people's schedules allow...then its just a short trip from my house to the rally site on opening day.

Thanks for offering the firewood and the staging area! I'll make arrangements to pick up the Unit trailer the weekend before the rally and Leon and I will contact you to make arrangements to drop it off at your place.

[Chuck]

email or pm me for details. we're really easy to find. Just ask Nancy!

You're welcome to CP at my house the night before, too, if you like. I don't know if it would be worth it or not...you're not THAT far away. But I have room, if you want.

The snow should be gone by then. I hope.

(off topic now my truck has to do double-duty. Pull in the summer...push in the winter. check out the video (3.6mb)
http://home.comcast.net/~cac4/video/theplow.wmv

[myboyburt]

Originally Posted by chuck

email or pm me for details. we're really easy to find. Just ask Nancy!

You're welcome to CP at my house the night before, too, if you like. I don't know if it would be worth it or not...you're not THAT far away. But I have room, if you want.

The snow should be gone by then. I hope.

(off topic now my truck has to do double-duty. Pull in the summer...push in the winter. check out the video (3.6mb)
http://home.comcast.net/~cac4/video/theplow.wmv

Thanks again! We won't need to CP though, we are going in a day early to try and get things setup before the rally starts. I'll email when I know the details about picking up our unit's trailer.

GREAT video! We've purchased a plow for our tow vehicle the first winter we moved up here to the "wilderness". Also a backup generator to power our house as it's no fun to be without heat and water for a day or two when we have bad weather. It looks like your driveway is even longer than ours, were you snowblowing it before? Must have taken hours!

[Chuck]

Originally Posted by myboyburt

GREAT video! We've purchased a plow for our tow vehicle the first winter we moved up here to the "wilderness". Also a backup generator to power our house as it's no fun to be without heat and water for a day or two when we have bad weather. It looks like your driveway is even longer than ours, were you snowblowing it before? Must have taken hours!

oh, HECK no! 500' of gravel driveway with a snowblower? yikes. even paved, it would take forever. But no, you couldn't if you wanted to. there's always plenty of hidden debris from the trees and stuff lying all over the place, hidden by the snow, that would get caught up in the machinery. you'd be going through shear pins left and right.

I had a plow on my old truck, when we moved in 12 years ago. When I sold that, and bought the current truck, I decided that it was too nice to put a plow on...and too expensive, too, when I discovered a local guy that does plowing for cheap cheap. Would've taken 10 years to get pay-back on a typical snowplow. But, like with alot of things, if you want it done right, you gotta do it yourself. I can't complain, because they were so cheap. BUT, I usually found myself in a rather annoyed state after every plowing event , as I still had an hour or more of "cleanup" to do with the piles of snow that they left exactly where I told them not to, widening things up because they were in and out in a jiffy...digging my cars out because they were in and out so fast, I couldn't get them shuffled around in time, etc, etc. It really works out to be easier for me to do it myself.

After last year's expensive winter, I decided to get a used plow for my truck, but had alot of trouble finding anything appropriate. I wound up going with this "Snowbear", which is a "personal use" plow. (www.snowbear.com) cheap, (no expensive hydraulics; no power-angle) but does the job, as you can see. I talked to some folks on a snowplowing forum (there's a forum for everything), and everyone that has one seems to like them.

I've thought about getting a generator, but honestly, in 12 years, including the 2 seasons with the heaviest snowfall on record, the longest power failure we've had was 8 hours. We have our own electric company in town. when something breaks, they're on it, like "white on rice". none of this calling Mass. Electric or PSNH and getting a busy signal, or a recorded message saying that they'll get to you by the end of the week.

I just had my oil burner tuned up, and the guy was telling me how they've been straight-out with all the calls from NH. people out for days and days and days, after a little wind storm. now all kinds of frozen pipes and boilers for the repairmen to fix.

[yukionna]

Originally Posted by chuck

...like "white on rice"...

What does that mean?

[myboyburt]

The longest power outage we've had here is 2 1/2 days (last year). This year the longest has been about 24 hours. Worth for us to have a generator.

Last off topic thing. Here is my Birdfeeder Bear. In this picture he is 5 feet from my home office window... He has also been found on my back deck looking into the house from our patio door. Learned important lesson, do not feed the birds in the late fall or early spring in bear country.

[Chuck]

Originally Posted by yukionna

What does that mean?

http://www.clichesite.com/content.asp?which=tip+1790

see also: http://www.clichesite.com/alpha_list.asp?which=lett+12
"like flies on...."

I would also add, "Like stink on...."

and also def: strongly bonded; difficult to seperate;





no bears, here. at least...none that I know of. I did see an otter thismorning...which is something new. kind of surprised me.

[myboyburt]

Originally Posted by yukionna

There are rules regarding fires -- they must be contained in the campground designated fire rings (one per site). We have many sites congregated in a central area, so you could coordinate building a fire at a few campsites and cook the potatoes at each location.

Yeah, this is how to do it.

Thanks.

[M&M CAPECOD]

You could always nuke the potatoes first, I'm sure we have microwaves in a few of our airstreams. Then throw them on a couple grills to finish them up and crisp the outside. That's what we do when we're cooking on the grill and don't want to turn the oven on for an hour before we start grilling. I don't know when the last time I used the oven just to bake potatoes, if it's already on for something else it's different.

[balrgn]

Originally Posted by M&M CAPECOD

You could always nuke the potatoes first, I'm sure we have microwaves in a few of our airstreams. Then throw them on a couple grills to finish them up and crisp the outside. That's what we do when we're cooking on the grill and don't want to turn the oven on for an hour before we start grilling. I don't know when the last time I used the oven just to bake potatoes, if it's already on for something else it's different.

Not to mention there is a nuke plant just down the road
That is a very good idea tho, saves burnin the skin.

[myboyburt]

Originally Posted by M&M CAPECOD

You could always nuke the potatoes first, I'm sure we have microwaves in a few of our airstreams. Then throw them on a couple grills to finish them up and crisp the outside. That's what we do when we're cooking on the grill and don't want to turn the oven on for an hour before we start grilling. I don't know when the last time I used the oven just to bake potatoes, if it's already on for something else it's different.

Great, even easier. I'll just need to take the bread and potato chips out of my microwave oven first.

[M&M CAPECOD]

Originally Posted by myboyburt

Great, even easier. I'll just need to take the bread and potato chips out of my microwave oven first.

I always wondered why we had a 1500 watt bread box. We just built a cabinet above the microwave to store our chips and bread in. Should make it easier to heat up the Uncle Ben's 90 second rice pouch. If you haven't tried it yet do, it's made meal prep a breeze for camping. No longer do you have to let your grilled veggies and meat get cold while you wait for your rice pilaf to finish cooking.

[myboyburt]

Originally Posted by M&M CAPECOD

I always wondered why we had a 1500 watt bread box. We just built a cabinet above the microwave to store our chips and bread in. Should make it easier to heat up the Uncle Ben's 90 second rice pouch. If you haven't tried it yet do, it's made meal prep a breeze for camping. No longer do you have to let your grilled veggies and meat get cold while you wait for your rice pilaf to finish cooking.

Cool, I'm going to have to take a peek at your new cabinet to see if this is something we can do in "The Tube". I don't remember if we have much space above the microwave in our rig though. I wish my Airstream's skin restoration was complete and it was home as I've got a ton of things that still need to be done to the inside before camping season begins.

I didn't even know Uncle Ben had such a product. I'll check it out!

[Pam]

I am volunteering the use of the motorhome microwave/convection oven. We can partially cook and throw on the grill as stated by M&M.

In teh new club supplies, I thougth we had warming pans. Can we cook ahead and throw them in there?

[myboyburt]

Originally Posted by Pam

I am volunteering the use of the motorhome microwave/convection oven. We can partially cook and throw on the grill as stated by M&M.

In the new club supplies, I thought we had warming pans. Can we cook ahead and throw them in there?

And we also now have that insulated box thingie with shelves that's designed to keep food hot for a couple of hours that we can use.

[Elaine L]

Just returned from sunny south Florida. Sure is cold here! The club has three warming pans but I think that cabinet thing we have would work best. Just leave the potatoes in the foil and throw them in it. I know restaurants bake all the potatoes for the evening before the dinner crowd has arrived. They leave them in warming ovens or on top of the deck ovens. I will cook some in my trailer unless I have power problems like last year!!! I couldn't use electric there for some reason. Kept blowing out. The unit trailer is in Marlborough. Let us know when you want to pick it up Michelle.

[Chuck]

Originally Posted by Elaine L

...The unit trailer is in Marlborough. Let us know when you want to pick it up Michelle.

What size is the coupler? does it have brakes? I'm only setup for a 2 5/16ths ball...I'd imagine that this one is smaller.

we're headin' for sunny FL next week.

for now, though...I gotta go plow some snow. brrrrr!

[bobandcarla]

Hi Guys, I miss everybody and can't wait for Salisbury Beach. I HATE WINTER IN NEW ENGLAND. I guess I'm getting old and crotchety. I need to camp and have fun.
By the way, we have a NESCO roaster oven that we bought at Sam's a few years ago and hardly ever used, so we'd like to donate it to the group. We'll bring it with us to Salisbury. Maybe we can use that for something.
Tell me about the potato thing. Do we bring our own potatoes and toppings or how does this work?
The electric hook-ups at Salisbury last year were all 20 AMPS and severely over used but Bob and I took a trip to the campground in December and saw that they are putting all new 30 and 50 AMP services to the sites. This should help especially if we need to use our AIR CONDITIONERS in APRIL.