Tag: RV

Should an RV be your evacuation vehicle? Pros and Cons.

It seems to make perfect sense. You have thousands or even tens of thousands of dollars invested in a trailer, 5th wheel, or motor home. You use it as your recreational getaway vehicle for family fun. And there it sits, all self-contained, a second home on wheels, either ready to roll at a moment’s notice, …

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Convert Your ‘Pavement Queen’ RV Into A Mean Off-Road Prepper Machine Part Two WATER SUPPLY

Convert Your ‘Pavement Queen’ RV Into A Mean Off-Road Prepper Machine By: William E. Simpson © 2014 All Rights Reserved  Part Two  WATER SUPPLY    It’s a big mistake to just assume that the water coming-out of a tap or hose is suitable for you, your family and friends to drink! Not everyone realizes how …

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Convert Your ‘Pavement Queen’ RV Into A Mean Off-Road Prepper Machine

Part One – Suspensions/Tires  Factory leaf springs compressed nearly flat due to max loading of payload  By the time my wife and I reached Provo, Utah I was already disenchanted with the 5th wheel RV that we had recently purchased. But maybe I should back-up just a little and start at the beginning… Since about …

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Survival Using RVs

Over the past year many people have reached-out to me asking the same question; ‘What can people do to survive a catastrophic event besides sailing to an island on a bug-out boat? This was of course a natural response by some people to my book; The Nautical Prepper My experience led me to believe that …

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