[AT] OT shifting blame

[Cecil Bearden]

An RV definitely has to be under a roof when not in use...  Here Rats 
are the worst thing...

Cecil

On 2/27/2019 11:55 AM, Ron Cook wrote:
> I think all RV's are a big pain in the rear and a money pit.  I lived 
> in one for almost 30 years while spraying.  Just during the spray 
> season that ran from mid May to a little after labor day and sometimes 
> well into September.  At first I was broke and worked as a hired 
> pilot.  My father had a 30 foot bumper hitch camper that he considered 
> a Cadillac of campers.  He had bought that thing long after I left the 
> farm to take my half siblings camping all over North America.  Lucky 
> them.  It had sat for years, so I borrowed it from him to stay in 
> while I worked in Minn as a pilot.  I spent a fortune fixing that 
> supposedly Cadillac.  Tires, brakes, furnace, new water heater, 
> fridge, replace frozen and cracked plumbing, roof repair, air 
> conditioner repair, rotten floor repair rotten sidewall wood repair, 
> etc, etc.  Then as soon as I got it fixed up so it was livable and 
> usable and I bought a pickup that would pull it,  he wanted it back.  
> Said my half brothers need a chance to use it.  NEVER HAPPENED!  He 
> gave it to a bar buddy that parked it in S.Dak somewhere to stay in 
> while he went fishing.  Dunno and don't care where it is.  All those 
> people are dead.
>
> Then when I got back into my own business, I got a contract to spray 
> sweetcorn a couple hundred miles from home.  I bought a used Country 
> Aire fifth wheel that had been all over, including Alaska.  It was set 
> up as something I could use.  It was a well built RV.  It looked 
> good.  Everything worked perfectly  Of course the dealer had it clean 
> and polished.  It was almost 10 years old, but that made it priced at 
> something I could pay for.  I lived in that unit during the spray 
> season for 23 years.  I towed it 500 miles a year for those years.  
> Now I tow it almost 500 miles a year to go to my Antique Airplane fly 
> in and stay in for 3 or 4 days a year.  The rest of the year it gets 
> to live indoors.  There have been some repairs.  Everything wears from 
> use.  But this thing was truly a well built unit.  From time to time I 
> have looked at some of the new units.  Like Dean's Montana, they are 
> super nice.  And very fancy.  And VERY SPENDY.  But to me they all 
> look as if things have been cheapened up where they should not have 
> been.  I do not figure on ever buying another.  Granted, the 
> campgrounds probably won't let me in as my RV is too old.  I am not 
> staying there anyway.  If they think like that, they are not my kind 
> of folk.
>
> Ron Cook, Salix, IA
>
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