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- Big Bend
Can I see a photo of your water setup behind the seats?i will second that Mammoth are incredibly built.
at the weight limit we have, you’re going to struggle to find a well-made camper with interior amenities (kitchen, shower, toilet) that falls within your truck’s limit. Your badge says Badlands, in which case you’re limited to 3500lbs, not 4500lbs (Braptor only). Of course you can exceed that weight limit but don’t until you’ve watched a few videos of the risks of what exceeding your tow limits can do.
re toilet and shower
In the under 4500lbs off-road capable category, you have as an option an outside shower (i have a joolca with a double shower tent, and this is a fantastic unit and solution for showering.) And for a toilet, well, i think I have the best solution of anyone. I am known to my friends as a “heimscheißer” (you can look it up for a laugh.) I love to camp but am unwilling to conduct my morning ablutions in a pail. I’m unwilling to use any of the options that most others will suggest. My solution is the Laveo Dry Flush, which is a normal sized toilet (made of ABS, so carryable). It uses mylar bags and operates like a diaper genie. Do your business, press the flush button, and the machine encapsulates your offerings. The unit holds 10-15 of such contributions before you lift the lid, pull up the sides of a black plastic bag in which the myler bag has been resting in, and you throw the whole thing in the trash. There is no smell. I keep it in the back of the Braptor, in hot weather and nary a whiff. Liquids are congealed by sprinkling in a congealing agent before you go potty (sort of like a talcum powder), so when you throw everything away, you pull up the black trash bag inside the unit, it gathers up your sealed mylar tube-of-grossness (again, think Diaper Genie) and you just drop all your encapsulated moments in a trash bin or dumpster, no chance of leaks, no smells. And you won’t be like the jerks who shit in the woods, and barely cover their mess and leave toilet paper blowing around at dispersed camping sites.
downsides? Cost of the unit. A Home Depot buck or a shovel or cheaper, but are you really a savage? Cost of the consumables: The myler packages, each good for 10-15 uses, are spendy. You’re creating non-recyclable landfill, and size of carting around a toilet. But you either set up a poo tent or use one of the “rooms” in your shower tent, and you’re either the object of envy or the subject of derision by your friends. This is a winner for all but the most feral of girlfriends and wives.
the orange tent in this photo is my single lav tent at King of the Hammers this year. If doing #2 in the wild is going to be a sticking point with your spouse, this is an expensive way to definitively solve it. There’s also the Wrappon toilet from Japan. Same idea, smaller, but you get a little sealed bag everytime you go. That works if you have a trash to immediately drop it in, but not if you need to carry large ziplocks of poo in the back of your truck for a few days.
Wrappon: https://wrapponusa.com/Trekker-WT-4-Toilet-System/
Laveo Dry Flush https://dry-flush.com/
Joocla heater: https://www.joolca.com/products/hottap-v2?variant=43416580685858
Joolca 2-room Tent: https://www.joolca.com/products/ensuite-tent-double
Single Poo tent (the orange one)
NEMO Equipment Heliopolis Privacy... https://www.amazon.com/dp/B083BHD96S?ref=ppx_pop_mob_ap_share
For showering and dish water in the Bronco I keep this behind the rear seats
https://www.ironman4x4.com/products/50l-tapered-water-tank-13-gal
on sale for 25% off for memorial day
if you have a Brap and can tow 4500lbs, you could do this:
https://www.rvsofamerica.com/shop/karavan/
and personally i really like OGT Off Grid Trailers, and they have several models to chose from that fit in either 3500lbs or 4500lbs ranges. But no toilet, they offer a shower but it’s outside, as is their kitchen.
I have a Hero Camper from Denmark but I cannot recommend it for two reasons: there’s zero factory or dealer support in the US (there was when I bought mine but dealer support ended in 2022 and factory support appears to have ended earlier this year when the guy who was importing them wound down his business due to lack of investment by the factory in growing the US market). It’s also a soft-roader in stock form. i have hardened mine extensively to address the limitations, at considerable expense. If I was doing it again, I’d buy a Mammoth.
I live around the corner from Off_The_Grind on Instagram, David Jenkins. He now works for Mammoth, which is in Woodinville, WA. Should you want to have a conversation about their to models, I can connect you.
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