10 Things We Don't Bring Anymore (Learn From Our Mistakes)

do you guys wish like future you could come back and tell present you what you should take out with you camping on your small camping adventures well that's what we're gonna do today I'm gonna take you to our campsite and just share some of the things we've taken out that really haven't worked for us and what we've put in their place and as usual we're gonna have all you guys sharing what you take out as well in the comments section to help everyone out hey guys welcome back to playing with sticks we're gonna get out there into our campsite and show you our first tip but if you're new to the channel we're a channel devoted to small camper trailers showing you the pros and the cons of the lifestyle and giving you some tips and tricks along the way subscribe below if you want more of this content let's get in [Music] they're not afraid of us at all then a comes to talk about the toilet this is the second toilet we got so the first toilet was like online everybody said it was the most comfortable toilet and they were so right that thing like it was a throne but it didn't collapse down took up a ton of space in the car ton of space in the teardrop so we went out and bought one of these little chief guys they collapse really easy a legs kind of fold up and down on it they don't feel that great so I know you probably don't want to talk about going number two so I'll put a little sign on here for those of you who are uncomfortable to come back in but these you get so low to the ground I have longer legs and it makes it a little hard to go so that's the only issue with these but other than that I love them if I was to do it again I would get the one that's silver and the little metal ones because then it takes up like no space at all [Music] if your budgets limited and you can't afford an awning and some sort of shelter that has bug meshing just skip to a tent that has machine you're gonna run into bugs somewhere and they're just gonna ruin your camping experience if we do this all over again we'd hop straight into a pop-up tent like this so if we were to do a fresh teardrop build just start all over I think we wouldn't even go the route of AGM batteries and inverters and all that mess I'd go straight to a solar portable generator and that's because it's portable I love that it can just come from inside my teardrop out into the field with me and technology it's changing so fast lately this way you can just switch it out with something new five years later when there's something better down the line instead of investing in an entire electrical system for your teardrop so we started with trickle solar panels basically a I don't even know like five watt solar panels I think one was even a 1 watt these are the newer suitcase style solar panels look how thin that is these guys are a hundred watt I would leave the other solar panels out of the equation these go right under the seat of your vehicle the beauty of a solar panel which I had no idea before getting into this this actually charges my solar portable generator out here faster than it can it for how you make it face to see okay [Music] okay yeah you do one side I do one side ready go oh man what did you get so Peter so if cost is important to you I totally understand why you would want a cheaper more affordable tent that you can put up with poles but if cost doesn't mean anything and it's more about your comfort out here just get yourself a clamshell tent these things go up in 30 seconds they're robust they hold strong to the wind I think if we did it all over again we just fork out the money and get the right type of tent for the job [Music] [Music] really [Music] portable propane cylinders these things are a joke they're tiny you run out of them fast they cost a lot of money you're filling up the landfill we've been using these for way too long just start off with a five pound propane cylinder we have an 11 pound Manchester that we carry around so this is the Manchester propane cylinder I was talking about so this is an 11 pound cylinder as you can see is this a short squatty little cylinder and what's really cool about it is unlike the 10 pound that just gets a little higher and gets narrower this one keeps the same footprint is like a 20-pound propane cylinder so you can hook it up to existing mounts that you already had and it's bigger than a 5 pound so this is going to get us through the entire summer we actually have two of these for our newer camper renovation we're doing one of these goes on the tongue and then the other one is attached to the camper so it can be moved out into the campsite to be used with our gas grill to be used with the little fire pit but I'm just going to show you really quick this compared to a 20 so you can get an idea of the size and I think for May she likes the little cuteness factor of this alright here they are side by side this is the 20 pound that you typically have in your barbecue and here is the 11 pound Manchester oh we almost forgot let us know in the comments what did you use to always pack with you but you are now like why did I ever pack that um we'd love to hear so you guys have probably noticed I went through three tongue Jack's in what two years I haven't found one that's built well so when you're starting your teardrop adventure really look into the forums for a good one of these I've heard if you go to like farm supply ranch supply get something for tractors maybe that'll help you but if anybody knows of a good tongue Jack please let us know in the comments she'd alike locks are your friend so when we started off these adventures we had so many different keys a key for the Yakima roof box a key for the teardrop keys for these I would at least get all your locks for you and all this I have no lack of man he's just took my lock but companies like Curtis master lock all of them key alike their vehicle keys so I would get one a key for the hitch receiver a key for whatever this is called the hitch lock the tongue lock and a key for hooking your ball to the receiver just kidding just get everything kita like so we purchased a gas generator for the setup as well we never use it if you're gonna purchase one for camping specifically they're large they're heavy even your neighbors may not enjoy them even if it's a nice Honda quite unlike ours it still makes some noise but the generators are good if you're using it as a bug-out trailer and that's what ours is for in case of a complete you know earthquake emergency here in Alaska we can get out and live within our teardrop and not need electricity but I think a generator it's kind of a higher price and you could probably skip that one up front losing weight the buddy heaters so you guys know we have the little buddy heater or not huge fans of it for tear drop light works great for hooking it to the seat of a drift boat down the river maybe is at a hunting stand but for us the bass was much too small we found that it heats going upwards so if you put it up on like a table it just blows over your head but I just go straight to the portable buddy it shoots heat straight and a little bit above it's simple it's strong so we've mentioned before just skip the backpacking chairs chairs in this type of lifestyle I'm not meant to be small you'll just be uncomfortable you'll end up not using them just go and buy chairs that are made for an adult stairs that are large enough to be comfortable [Music] so I have a playlist for you here and here both of them are about small camper trailer tips and tricks to help you guys get a little more comfortable out there we'll see you in the next video subscribe if you haven't to the channel for more of these videos [Music]

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Length: 9min 3sec (543 seconds)

Published: Thu May 14 2020