Living in a T@BT Trailer & Towing it with a Jeep

hi everyone Bob wells here and this is the real star of the show my best buddy Cody welcome to our new channel we've been promising you videos from the old channel for a long time and we're just now finally getting them up that's what we have for you today I hope you enjoy them and let's join that video in progress I bought my tab about a year and a half ago when I retired from being a pharmacist and it's a 2015 tab s-max model it way 1670 dry it's quite light and I got that because I already had my four-door Jeep Wrangler and I wanted to be able to have something that it could easily pull so you have a four-door Jeep Wrangler yep and how does it tow it like it's not there really yeah it's great I mean you feel a little bit going up a hill but that would be true I think with anything but you know on a flat or going down you just sometimes I look in the mirror and I go oh you're still there but you know it's I've been full timing in it now for a year and a half and I absolutely love it I I've had four previous RVs that were all larger and I wasn't full timing because I was still working and so when I got this little guy here um I wouldn't look back I think it's so easy for me to manage by myself that I can't imagine towing something big and you know trying to deal with it now is do you find it big enough at first it took a couple of weeks of adjustment you know I was kind of bumping in I'm not that tall so I can stand up everywhere in it it has a wet bath with a shower and toilet and I can stand up in there and take a shower that was probably something you really did require yeah really I really did you know I went back and forth a little bit about that because then you're dealing with black tanks and all of that stuff but I decided it was well worth it at three in the morning you're very happy you made that decision yes yeah and I have 135 watts of solar that's how I power it when I'm off grid and not plugged in anywhere and that's an unusual one what brand is that it's Sam Sam ik Sam Lex yes am le X yes okay and it folds up into a case so it's it's very portable very easy you know for me to to manage I cook outside quite a bit even though I have a two burner stove inside cooking outside I just like it and it keeps the odors down if I'm cooking onions or something that you know mmm the best thing about a little rig like this is it kind of forces you to spend a lot of time outside I mean you you know when you're doing this lifestyle it's about being out in nature and enjoying other people and so when you're in a little rig you can't hole up in there too long you get a little nuts and you gotta come outside well it does have a lot of light that has helped a lot yes a lot of windows how long is it it's 15 feet including the tongue and so 12 feet of actual trailer the top the tallest point inside is five foot nine and it has a visor on it right now that's an add-on extra thing that you can order I also have a larger awning that comes all the way out and stakes down but I didn't want to go through all that right now but I guess we should say it's a tab trailer it is ta B and if someone was interested in finding in it on the net that's what they look for they would they look for tab and it's made by the Amish in Ohio along what's you found a well-made din no very well made you know yeah good and and you've had it you said a year and a half you're now and I've been full timing in it since the day I bought it okay yeah you know very comfortable outside setup thank you set outside and and in the bad weather you you're quite happy inside yeah I gotta be no leaks alright and did you have a get a furnace in this one it comes with a furnace Senate it's a European model furnace called al D al de and it's not forced air it works almost like a radiator you turn it on and you don't hear anything and in about 15 minutes you can put your hand down by the vents and you feel this just nice warm air and it heats it up very quickly I also have a little propane heater if I don't want to turn on the Aldi system and I can turn that on it heats it up in about Oh two or three minutes doesn't take long and it's you found it to be fairly well insulated so it holds it it is it has they said it has an r12 well that's very good yeah her 12 would be a very good dish most houses are 14 so you're a very good range yeah so and we can take a look inside let's do that you can see it has a very complete kitchen yeah it has a fridge three-way fridge that runs on propane shore power or battery although they have told me that the battery power is a bad idea it sucks it dry very quickly a rule it's running on propane right now it has a two burner stove and that's the sink I have a cutting board cover that fits over it and then inside okay pop in here this is the the wet bath it has a shower and toilet and I hope this it into embarrassing would you be willing to step inside it sure and people will see that again your your average sized woman but you're not miserably uncomfortable now I definitely take a shower in here and I don't have to sit on the toilet to do that right you know some people do not you know a tall person might have a little more you know hunching yes is small its small but perfectly usable when that hot water hits you you don't care and then all it has an entertainment center up here so this is for CD and DVD and radio it has a flat-screen TV up here so you can watch movies or TV if you're in a place to get it and these all came with them what this is all for the price yeah it has the fantastic fan and the seating arrangement I keep it down as a bed you know as a twin size bed in the back this could flip up into a sofa and so you would have you know the Sheep seating all the way around but I don't want to make the bed up all the time so I keep it down as a bed and then I still have seating and I bring in a little wooden table to eat off over to work on my computer and it has an air conditioner up here obviously don't run that when I'm off-grid but if I'm plugged into Shore power I certainly do so it's small yep but really cozy yeah and the first thing I noticed and think is well there's a lot of light and a lot of visibility there is a lot of light and I would not want to be in a little dark trailer that just would make me crazy so um yeah and those are I think that's most of the features of it it also has a very cool screen door that pools called a phantom screen show me that again mm-hmm it just goes it just tucks back in there and and I also really like how these windows are all the way open they do and I love that because someone knows you know before I had once and they click click click open and these um one other thing I'll show you here is the windows open all the way but you also have you have a screen that comes up mm-hmm and you have a privacy shade that comes down very very nice so and then when it gets hot that that airflow you'd have a great cross ventilation any breeze do you do and if you turn on the fantastic fan you can pull more air through right and I do that too and then this is this is a fun little window it has a little privacy screen that you can open in close Wow a lot of little nice touches mm-hmm that make life much more comfortable it is I researched every small trailer on the market I literally did some I saw in person most of them online and this one fit the bill um it in price it's not cheap but it runs probably the MSRP is around $21,000 on the 2016's now you can always you know dicker a little bit I think I was out the door in price with this for about 15,000 but then I did pay some extra for California tax because that's where I was living and so you're you have the four liter in engine in your Jeep a six six cylinder its owner huh and it tows it well it does it has a capacity of 3500 pounds of towing and like I said this only weighs 1670 dry so and even with the stuff that I have the Jeep doesn't struggle and what kind of gas mileage do you get have you checked it you know um the Jeep is not known to be a great gas saver but when I'm towing I mean with the Jeep oh by itself I get about 19 to 21 miles a gallon which isn't really bad too bad no towing I drop between depending on the terrain the worst is 13 if I'm kind of going in Hills up to 17 lousy yeah there's a hole you got a lot of comfort to get 13 to 17 miles to go I agree yeah there's a lot of vans that aren't getting that and you've got much more comfort than they do yeah you have the storage in the back of the Jeep uh-huh and you have a fair amount of storage here in the trailer a little bit cabinetry here and there yeah the Jeep really acts as my storage and um the other thing is you know because of the size and the weight and everything with it it does have electric brakes and I have a brake controller in the Jeep but I don't need sway bars and I don't need extended mirrors it tracks right behind that Jeep and so hitching it up even by myself is very easy to do you want to just I'll get you in the shot hi so after a year and a half uh you've retired you were a pharmacist you're you probably you know have a reasonable amount of money you're living fairly comfortably actually no yeah oh we think a pharmacist to do NOL well I made good money when I was working but um you know I didn't have a pension because I moved around I really am a gypsy at heart and I never worked anywhere a long long time in just one spot so basically now I live on my social security and I have I do have a little nest egg of savings and that's it and you've been doing a year and a half yep what are your what are your impressions what do you think are you glad you did it absolutely I never have looked back and I just think that you know the lifestyle and the people you meet it's it's phenomenal it's it's really it's it's so much better actually I've lived in houses I've lived in condos I've lived in beautiful apartments I lived in places where I didn't even know my neighbors I lived there for two or three years and I didn't know who was across the way out on the road I have met so many fantastic people and I mean you'll meet someone and you'll talk to them and you'll have dinner with them that night and you often keep in touch with them so so you've actually found more friends as a hermit nomad as a nomad yeah yeah then you ever had and just taking brick I think so I think that's a very common story yeah yeah I do so it's all good would you choose the cab again and the Jeep I would I really like the combination very much because of your blog and some of the people out and the RTR I sometimes have Van Envy because you know to have a van you just jump in and go but I I have two little chihuahuas they're not on camera right now because they're in the Jeep but because I have little dogs and I do love setting up camp and being able to go to town and do stuff if I was in a van or a little Class C or something I'd have to put a lot of things away before I go to town but everything would be rattling around so this has worked out great for me and I don't see any reason to change it no well let me let you down a little secret those of us in many of those of us in vans have Jeep envy I think why I can do okay with my van but I had that Jeep where would I go and so having the comfort and and the amazing mobility that a jeep offers and nothing takes you where a jeep will take ya jeeps are pretty cool yeah I love my night I first fell in love with Jeeps I was I was on a vacation in Hawaii and I rented one and I had a relatively new vehicle that I had just bought and I came home traded it in took a took a whippin on the price and bought the Jeep and I love it it's great well thank you so much for sharing your home with us in your life and well we really appreciate it absolutely thank you all right folks so if you like these videos go ahead and like us on YouTube and subscribe to our Channel and we'll talk to you next time okay see you later Sharon [Music]

Channel: CheapRVliving

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Keywords: live, living, car, van, RV, Fill-time, nomad, gypsy, camper, camp, boondock, travel, Jeep, T@B, Trailer, Tow, Solar

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Length: 15min 6sec (906 seconds)

Published: Fri Dec 02 2016