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blijil


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We are considering purchasing a 45 gal water bladder from Camping world to bring fresh water to our 5th wheel when we do prolonged drycamping.  This will replace the 6 gallon jug we methodically drag from the water to the trailer on a dolly.

What do you use and what do you think works best for you?


Thanks for the input.

Larry and Jacki



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Keep in mind, a 45 gal bladder will weigh 375 lbs. when full, not to heavy for a vehicle but one or two people are not going to move it around very easy. 
 
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Friends of ours have one and they put it on the roof of their Blazer, fill it up and then use gravity to transfer it to their 5ver.  It doesn't hurt the roof because the weight is do spread out.  Works well fo them.

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I used a 30 gallon barrel last year and pumped it from the truck to the fresh water tank. Now I have dual 40 gallon tanks to do the same thing with. Bought them for rvsurplus and salvage.

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I used to use 2 65 gallon custom made tanks, one to haul in fresh the other to haul out the dirty stuff. After a while I had problems with seam leaks and chucked them. I now have a 100 gallon round vertical tank for the dirty stuff and a 75 gallon for fresh. It works for me and we do not need to move the trailer to get or get rid of either. we boondock mostly and fresh water and dump stations can be hours away.
pictures of the old system can be seen at
http://www.jggrafx.com/thomsstuff/
and will be replaced by the new one shortly on that site. Everything is the same except for the tanks
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The bladder worked great this summer.  We dry camped for over 6 weeks and others in the campground were envious of the simple easy transport.  We set of for gravity and pump fill using both depending on our location.  Both worked great but the gravity fill required no pump and no battery drain.  We even shared with a few neighbors on occasion.  This was especially nice a Heron Lake in NM where the nearest water to the shoreside campgrounds was over a mile away.

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We also use the CW water bladder. It folds up when not in use and takes very little space.

We use a 12v pump purchased from Harbor Freight to transport from the truck to trailer.  We fashioned a trailer plug to the pump (+ and -), so it just plugs into the trailer plug and we have 12v power to the pump.

The extra water makes the difference for us while boondocking between "camping" and living in our home.

While in Quartzsite this winter, we supplied many people with fresh water using this method, including Howard and Linda.


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We have room for those 5 gallon jugs and refill them when getting groceries.
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You can also use the CW bladders for the grey (and if you macerate the black too). Just make sure not to ever mix the two bladders up!omfg.gifomfg.gif

A Sanicon system makes it a snap to also take care of the "other tanks" using these bladders.


-- Edited by RVDude at 19:09, 2009-03-11

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RVDude wrote:

You can also use the CW bladders for the grey (and if you macerate the black too). Just make sure not to ever mix the two bladders up!omfg.gifomfg.gif

A Sanicon system makes it a snap to also take care of the "other tanks" using these bladders.


-- Edited by RVDude at 19:09, 2009-03-11


toilet.gif YUCK! toilet.gif....and then you have to empty it?

 



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