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GlueGuy
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Topic: New to me R Pod 178 owner Posted: 19 Feb 2019 at 11:06am |
Originally posted by lostagain
That's a really cool trailer. You really did a nice job. I don't miss that tule fog in your second picture, though. |
I don't know that that is tule fog. It looks a lot like the fog we see from the hills/mountains overlooking the Pacific coast. I think of tule fog as that strange stuff that is prevalent in the central valley.
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lostagain
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Posted: 19 Feb 2019 at 1:05pm |
I can't count the times I drove from the mountains into the tule fog when I lived in B'field. It looks just like that as you come off the Grapevine. But the fog over the Central Valley looks pretty much like the fog over the ocean too, except that it tends to get denser with more limited visibility, but that's not so apparent from the top.
I've noticed that the tule fog doesn't seem to be as prevalent or persistent now as it was in the 50's through the 70's. I can say I made decent money defending fog crashes when I lived in Fresno. There were always people who insisted on driving like it wasn't there and that always turns out poorly for everyone else.
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offgrid
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Posted: 19 Feb 2019 at 3:55pm |
Lostagain I'm going with GlueGuy on this one being the marine layer till we hear definitively from Toyanvil. 3 reasons:
Too much and the wrong kind of vegetation to be overlooking the central valley. The html indicates this was taken during a trip to Big Sur. The tule fog is mostly a winter phenomenon and the marine layer mostly occurs in summer, and more camping is done in the summer....
Yes, the tule fog and the marine layer look similar from on top. Big difference is the marine layer almost always has both a floor and a ceiling. For the tules, the floor is pretty often 0 AGL. Not good.
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lostagain
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Posted: 19 Feb 2019 at 4:12pm |
Since we can't see underneath to know if it's ocean or tule fog we'll have to wait for Toyanvil to let us know. I've been to places in the southern Sierra in my younger days that looked over the valley that could pass for what is in the picture. But it could easily be on the coast too. Can't tell from the sky or the foliage whether it's summer or winter. I used to see that sea of fog coming down the ridge route on surfing/camping trips in Nov-Jan when we camped at the beach under beautiful blue warm skies. Camping in CA, except when in the high Sierra, is a year-round activity.
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Toyanvil
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Posted: 19 Feb 2019 at 9:32pm |
You guys are funny.
Yes it's a TW200
And it is above Big Sur, I will say coming down the Grapevine looks very close when the fog is out.
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lostagain
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Posted: 20 Feb 2019 at 4:42am |
Nah, we're just a bunch'a grumpy old men with too much time on our hands. ;--)
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offgrid
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Posted: 20 Feb 2019 at 5:25am |
lostagain, you're just grumpy because you lost out on the where is this trailer contest .
Maybe we should start a regular topic where folks put up a some photos of their pod somewhere and we have to try to figure it where it is. Like GeoGuessr for rpods. No fair cheating like I did by inspecting the HTML.
Now that would take up some excess time over the winter till we can go camping again.
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lostagain
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Posted: 20 Feb 2019 at 5:34am |
offgrid you misquoted me. You left out "But it could easily be on the coast too."
Lawyers always hedge their bets. ;--) [I don't think I'll be able to put the emojis in until I get back to NV, where we rarely have tule fog.]
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Posted: 27 Feb 2019 at 11:43pm |
I started cutting out plates for my axle supports. I only have a picture of one for now, it was my pattern before I cut three more and drill the bolt holes. They will look like shock mounts, the holes will hold a turn buckle attached to a mount at the end of the axle. The plan is to have two plates per side welded to the lift block and not attached to the frame in any way. The goal is to support the end of the axle to keep it from flexing under load.
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offgrid
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Posted: 28 Feb 2019 at 5:39am |
Toyanvil, can you clarify how you're planning to connect to the axle?
When you say turnbuckles, which are designed to be used in tension, are you talking about putting tension on the end of the axle to pull it up? If so, that will be counterproductive, the axle problems occur when the wheels take a bump load and are pushed up, so you need to support them by pressing vertically down on the axle ends.
If you haven't already, take a look at the thread "axle reinforcement" for my solution to this problem.
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1994 Chinook Concourse
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2015 Rpod 179 - sold
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