Recent content by gralson

Still at it.... I have become quite fond of poly covered windows, and ( if you can handle the lack of light) foil insulation. Although after five years in the old girl I must admit I am watching the dual pane/insulated diesel pushers like a hawk right now! $40/barrel oil does tend to have a...

Just enclose your tank with aluminum insulation and a heat tape wrapped around the line and tank. If it get's to -35, plug it in and all will be well.

Yup, just paid 21.50 to dump at a campground! Fortunately for me I stay across the road at a husky truck stop (where I buy several hundred $ of fuel a day) so they quite like having me. That being said, I would have preferred free.

Glad to see/ hear you are making progress with it. keep posting !

Been doing it for five years I wouldn't say it's been all roses through the Canadian winters, but people have been doing it for years. you don't see many of them on the forums much as most of us are working in the oil, gas, mining, and timber industries. This usually means we are working 12+...

I think there is a portion of the society that is likely very under represented  from what I have seen on the forum. Those of us who have jobs that require us to be away from home.  now some might argue that we aren't fulltimers, and they could be right. But in my mind 250 days a year in an rv...

Hi all! Well ten days at a time and then four days off to visit the sticks and bricks. outside of last year have been at it for 5 years now, I started vandwelling and then got tired of being cramped. I live and work in western canada. and have been proving for the past 5 years that you can...

uhm there are quite a few as opposed to what the consensus is here. the best one that comes ready built is the roughneck. my suggestion is go on kijiji search alberta rv's and put in winter as a keyword. people have been living through the winters on the oil rigs since I was a kid. you just have...

another option (if you're cheap like me is to visit the truck wrecking shops. before I moved up to my gas hog 454 I did a winter of minivan dwelling and picked up a working used one for under $400 and used it for 2 years with no problem

wow you and my wife  are both the same kind of crazy! :)

Nope! not crazy! I have modified a 85 winnebago cheiftan 22 and lived out of it for two winters while at work the worst stretch was a -40 stretch of about a week and a half where all heaters came out to keep it comfy and warm, but for the typical -15 to 20 stuff, my modified old girl got me...

I've done it for two winters alternating  55 & 35 lb tanks with an 85 cheiftan 22' class a