What`s your most boneheaded RV moment?

[Camper_bob]

I guess it counts as a "bonehead" move? I pay a note and storage fees on a camper I hardly ever use.

But it's my NY "Resolution" to remedy that situation... If for nothing more than to be able to come here and tell y'all about my bonehead moves!!

PS: I really like the new forum format...

 

[Taftcoach]

So same trip as above and the closest I have come to a bonehead moment without actually executing. Pulling into the tightest camping spot entrance I have ever experienced. Pull through, but near 90-degree entrance with large trees both sides. Negotiating that corner with a 32' trailer was not fun! You can see the scar on the tree from previous campers to the left of the first photo. I was about an inch away from adding to the carnage and creeping about as slow as I have ever moved. Swung as wide as I could starting but my folded passenger mirror still rubbed a sapling on the right (about 18" away from the trailer in the 2nd photo).

The lesson in here for me is to GOAL and to think first before trying. I rarely get a pull through, so am not used to having another option, but had I gone down the exit road and backed in it would have been MUCH easier. But then again, backing in kind kills the purpose of a pull-through.

That reminds me of a campsite in Colorado near Leadville. Tight at a one way road at the beginning of a long loop and angle on the wrong direction. After two attempts a neighbor came over and said the last two people drove the wrong way down the road. They blocked traffic for me to make the long loop back around.

I appreciate the efforts to save a few trees but that site should have been marked tents only.

 

[Kim Gass]

Boneheaded can happen with "experienced " campers too
Moral never get lax If you have needed something in the past you will need it at some point in the future
and always do set up and breakdown the same way every time
Hubby will be pissed but I think I am laminating a checklist to hang around his neck like a noose
We have 200,000 miles RV ing but
upon getting to warm weather he unhitched and got to dewinterizing
Forgot to chock any wheels: he checked for level but as we did not need the Andersen levelers he just blanked that step out He had the jack sitting on one of those add height plastic red boxes
Came in and sat down on the back bench and voila unhitched we were going for a ride . The hitch foot dug in after a foot of travel but it felt like a mile.The unweighting of the hitch foot on the box must have just been enough to topple over the box
The slope in back of the trailer was much steeper and 40 feet away was a private fence and house
After coming to rest I made the wifely error " Dear where is the bottle jack"
to get the hitch up high enough.
muttere mutter swear" It is at home. Didnt think it was necessary "
We have used it before when the jack failed both elecrically and manually
Since he is a board fan and we have about a dozen foot long 1x4 he made that work ( the hard way)
Moral is always always chock and. I share responsibility for him follwing a checklist
It probably will make for a silent period after.

Seems every trip we do something doh

 

[Camper_bob]

Boneheaded can happen with "experienced " campers too
Moral never get lax If you have needed something in the past you will need it at some point in the future
and always do set up and breakdown the same way every time
Hubby will be pissed but I think I am laminating a checklist to hang around his neck like a noose
We have 200,000 miles RV ing but
upon getting to warm weather he unhitched and got to dewinterizing
Forgot to chock any wheels: he checked for level but as we did not need the Andersen levelers he just blanked that step out He had the jack sitting on one of those add height plastic red boxes
Came in and sat down on the back bench and voila unhitched we were going for a ride . The hitch foot dug in after a foot of travel but it felt like a mile.The unweighting of the hitch foot on the box must have just been enough to topple over the box
The slope in back of the trailer was much steeper and 40 feet away was a private fence and house
After coming to rest I made the wifely error " Dear where is the bottle jack"
to get the hitch up high enough.
muttere mutter swear" It is at home. Didnt think it was necessary "
We have used it before when the jack failed both elecrically and manually
Since he is a board fan and we have about a dozen foot long 1x4 he made that work ( the hard way)
Moral is always always chock and. I share responsibility for him follwing a checklist
It probably will make for a silent period after.

Seems every trip we do something doh

That's one of the reasons several items are on both our lists! Getting a good "crosscheck" is a great plan...

But I've got several "bonehead" times where even that failed us!!

 

[bankr63]

Interesting, I have a bottle jack in the back of the truck, but I've never actually used it (lucky I guess). Good to know I shouldn't take it out.

 

[Kim Gass]

Interesting, I have a bottle jack in the back of the truck, but I've never actually used it (lucky I guess). Good to know I shouldn't take it out.

We had our electric jack fail both manually and elecrically
Fortunately we were not hooked up
This was some years ago and we were able to get to a Harbor Freight easily to get a bottle jack
Picking up a six hundred lb hitch isnt possible in old maybe any age