Wigpro
Well-known member
My winter season workamp position is winding down and my duties are not near as demanding, so the past couple evenings my happy hour has been in my comfortable chair in the cool desert evening watching the drive through nightly residents. Almost as good as watching at a boat ramp....
Currently we are having quite a few one night stands, people heading North after their winter in the Southern sunshine.
Our sites are 1/2 gravel and half paved with the gravel half on the utility side - in other words this is where you park.
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[*]Without looking most always pull in on the pavement side then unhook and TRY to reach the utilities - almost always too short to get water and electric and for sure reach the sewer hook-up. TIP - Look at your neighbors and get out and walk your site first - determine where the utilities are and position accordingly. I would also suggest you make sure all of your utility lines will reach before unhooking.
[*]Checklist - make a step by step checklist and follow it until you are sure your have the unhitching and hitching procedure well memorized.
[/list]A couple of the more humorous antics witnessed the past couple days.
I will be here for another couple weeks with limited duties, so I imagine the chair and a few beers for more evening entertainment is in my future...if you are in Twentynine Palms RV Resort - no names have been mentioned so no harm no foul...and enjoy your stay!
Enjoy,
Jim
Currently we are having quite a few one night stands, people heading North after their winter in the Southern sunshine.
Our sites are 1/2 gravel and half paved with the gravel half on the utility side - in other words this is where you park.
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[*]Without looking most always pull in on the pavement side then unhook and TRY to reach the utilities - almost always too short to get water and electric and for sure reach the sewer hook-up. TIP - Look at your neighbors and get out and walk your site first - determine where the utilities are and position accordingly. I would also suggest you make sure all of your utility lines will reach before unhooking.
[*]Checklist - make a step by step checklist and follow it until you are sure your have the unhitching and hitching procedure well memorized.
[/list]A couple of the more humorous antics witnessed the past couple days.
- Big brand new looking diesel pusher backing in - driver pulled up and walked the site with his significant other, directing her where he wanted to be and where to stand. BTW he correctly identified the gravel side of the site. He promptly backed in perfectly, easing back to a good sized palm tree. He stopped and got out and directed his wife to let him know when he was close to the palm tree...got back in and was inching back - CRASH - STOP she yelled. Rear corner of the fiberglass crunched in...needless to say the conversation after this was not pleasant.
- FULL HAZMAT SUIT - The site directly next to me a large class C pulled in and parked, I was watching the hookup procedure and it seemed to be going fairly smooth with both people sharing in the duties, good job of directing in to the site and on the correct side. The wife mentions that the tanks are full and need dumping and that he should hook up the sewer connection. He said in a minute and pulls a large storage container out of a basement compartment and proceeds to put on a full hazmat suit - not just gloves but a whole suit including one of those fume masks like a painter uses - a respirator. By now I have said hello and could not help but ask if they were fearful of Ebola or something - he says no but it is a large tank and it always sprays all over. Pulls the sewer hose from the container and I notice it only has one end on it - the end that screws into the sewer connection in the ground but the other end is just the hose....he proceeds to try and push the bare hose up and into the RV. I say hold on there you are missing an end...he looks befuddled. I said wait, I will show you....I have a spare short hose for using with my blue tank, so I retrieve it and explain that one end locks onto the RV and works much better. My hose was long enough so we hook it up and he says well that is much easier....we had a couple beers and he said I think I have the other end, but could not figure out how to put it on the hose...it had one of those clamps which is wire and you rotate it on the wire in the hose which pulls it up over the hump - pain in the neck to get on, but I helped him and I think he can now lose the full suit.
- Make sure you are in the correct site - last night a 30 foot fifth wheel backed in and worked tirelessly for about an hour getting it in position and then level - including having to hitch back up and move twice. Then they walked over to the electrical pedestal which is numbered and realized they were in the wrong site...so they hitched back up and moved over one space and spent another hour plus getting set again. Sadly I thought they were just re-positioning again, as by the time I walked over, I could have suggested just going to the office and changing their site number...
- Then there are those that hit it perfect, last night a little old lady who could barely see over the steering wheel of a fairly large class A - pulled up and got out walked the site and pulled forward and backed in perfectly then was fully hooked up and level in under 15 minutes total, including putting out the manual awning...I was impressed.
I will be here for another couple weeks with limited duties, so I imagine the chair and a few beers for more evening entertainment is in my future...if you are in Twentynine Palms RV Resort - no names have been mentioned so no harm no foul...and enjoy your stay!
Enjoy,
Jim
