Blow-overs - Event Date: 29 Apr 2014 - 01 Jun 2014

I'm still holding out hope for you, Doug. Maybe someday. And I've thought about Marwayne, but he'd have to totally restock his woodshop after he donates his Pod to the Smithsonian. No wood in the Camplite .

I was actually thinking about "blow-overs" as a cool strong wind gusted from the lake at our site in Algonquin Provincial Park, ON this past week-end. Usually I like to position the R-Pod so that I wake up to a great view out the bedroom window. But I remember reading somewhere that one should take care to make sure that strong winds don't hit the R-Pod broadsides.

Originally posted by Kickstart By the way, the new Pod replacement tows nicely, and gets about 2 mpg less than the pod did. The wife is happy, so I'm happy, even though podless. I'll probably drift away from this site, as most have done when they sell their pods, so good luck to all and tow carefully.

We purchased a Sangean weather radio with AM and FM with presets. Works great. About $50. at Amazon. Safe Travels.

The Pod was obviously being towed when wrecked.As others have stated. It was licensed, & ibyers on 6/25/12 shows the tongue of the Pod with WDH drop down brackets installed on the tongue and bent WDH bars leaning up against the wreck. The straps are used by the tow truck to help keep the wreck together on the back of the flat bed wrecker. Personal effects were probably scavenged by the owner/driver before the wreck was towed.

This is exactly how things went down for me on the summer of 1997 in the Columbia River gorge--1997 Ford f150, 1994 20' Layton TT, WDH, sway control, hungus wind gusts as we crested the rise before the river and headed down into the gorge. The trailer initially swerved towards the 200' or so drop into the gorge and then slammed into the rock wall on the other side. No major injuries, but totaled truck and trailer.

I thought that I had detailed this on this site before, but if not, then somewhere else online. Don't kid yourself, under the right (wrong) conditions no WDH and sway control is gonna save your bacon. As a matter of fact, in the last 17 or so years since my accident. I've used a WDH, but no sway control. But I have paid close attention to making sure that my tow rig and trailers were a good match, my hitch weight and height were where they should be, and I never load heavy behind the trailer's axles. Keep in mind that it's a sway control, not a sway cure. If you had any sway problems before you installed your sway control, then it's still there, just pushed back in the corner waiting to bite you on the butt under those right (wrong) conditions. I don't want anyone to have to go through what we did.

By the way, the new Pod replacement tows nicely, and gets about 2 mpg less than the pod did. The wife is happy, so I'm happy, even though podless. I'll probably drift away from this site, as most have done when they sell their pods, so good luck to all and tow carefully.