My dream.....

Aurelian · Mar 21, 2015

Is to live on my business site full time in an rv. Probably in a class c. Does anyone live in a northern climate in a class c? How did u keep warm?

rvwandering · Mar 21, 2015

This guy stays in Alaska in the winter in his Toyota motorhome. He's posted a lot of good advice on his blog - http://timmystoyota.blogspot.com/search?q=winter For your situation a trailer might be better because you can use hay bales or skirting around the bottom for insulation. You'll have your truck for running around and since the trailer will stay put the insulation can be semi-permanent.

highdesertranger · Mar 21, 2015

a heads up on using hay bales for skirting around the bottom of an trailer. don't leave the bales there year around, rats and mice love to make their homes in hay. highdesertranger

c_hasbeen · Mar 21, 2015

highdesertranger said:
a heads up on using hay bales for skirting around the bottom of an trailer. don't leave the bales there year around, rats and mice love to make their homes in hay. highdesertranger

Last few years I lived in north western Kansas, not a nothern state but it does drop below zero, a lot of the rv parks have contractors that are working in the area over the winter all live in travel tailers and park in the trailer parks or the rv parks and put skirting around them like a trailer house, and put heat tape on the water lines.
some of them have staw bales but most go with either the corigated tin from home depot, or ply wood.
I talked to this one cat who had a pretty slick school bus and he had all of his tanks inside the bus instead of under the bus and he had green heavy canvis tarp that he had put snaps on like a boat cover and he snapped it on and and it stops the cold from blowing under his bus.
sure did like his bus!!
I must be a bus nut???

ttpadilla · Mar 21, 2015

I did straw bales this winter, and what a pain in the ass it was. Certainly not portable, so I'm loving the heavy canvas tarp idea.

c_hasbeen · Mar 22, 2015

Nana4Twins said:
I did straw bales this winter, and what a pain in the ass it was. Certainly not portable, so I'm loving the heavy canvas tarp idea.

I took a look around tractor supply today and they have some of the green canvas tarps that were 6 x 8, you cold cut them in half and have 3x 16 I think they were about 10 or 12 clams each. those snaps are kind of spendy, I bought some once from true value but I think they were some place near a quarter dollar for one complte set (screw in male & pinch down to canvas female) I think a person could use a scrwe and washer and acomplish the same thing for less spendage.
you already have the gromets in the tarp so a fender waher and a screw would do the trick, put your cut side down on the tarp.

I spent one very cold winter in one of those canvas tents with only a drip oil pan heater to keep old MR. frost bite out side. Stopping the draft or wind does a lot.

highdesertranger · Mar 22, 2015

the best thing I ever used for skirts was the pvc coated nylon. it looks like the stuff they make inflatable boats out of. the stuff is 100% wind and water proof. super tough to and easy to transport. I have a tarp made out of it now. highdesertranger