ASPW wants a Grenadier

[DenisM]

I'm with you there. It excites me slightly more than reheating food (cooked at home) on an induction cooker, surrounded by flies and swilling Coke .
Even if the sunset is OK.

"Yellow Card for you!!"

 

[DenisM]

We’ve had two rooftop tents including a very nice Bundutop electric operated tent. However we’ve now gone back to a ground tent with army surplus camp beds topped with 100mm self inflating mattresses. Getting up and down the ladder in the night for the loo gets tiresome especially in inclement weather. Also the shear weight of everything on the roof rack was getting excessive. Bundutop 80kg+, ostrichwing awning about 25kg, spare wheel and tyre, highlife Jack, 30L laundry drum. The Landy was rolling all over the place on rough roads. Going to keep all the weight down low with the Grenadier.

We got around the weight issue with an "Oasis" RTT (Mk 1) Weighs 17 Kg. We still carry it on the roof rack but set it up on the ground under a fly (or not depending on weather). With the fly, and two of us , after some practice... the whole thing is set up in less than 10 mins... I envisage the "utility belt" and the grab rails on the Grenadier being very handy for stringing a tarp/tent fly in due course... I pack the vehicle mostly as if we're on an extended "bush-walk"... so even for a couple of weeks of camping, we take the minimum to stay cool/dry/warm and above all COMFORTABLE!! We're both over 70 so the slips and spills issue is a risk to consider...

 

[Tazzieman]

We got around the weight issue with an "Oasis" RTT (Mk 1) Weighs 17 Kg. We still carry it on the roof rack but set it up on the ground under a fly (or not depending on weather). With the fly, and two of us in a "well rehearsed" the whole thing is set up in less than 10 mins... I envisage the "utility belt" and the grab rails on the Grenadier being very handy for stringing a tarp/tent fly in due course...

How does that hold up in the wind?

 

[DenisM]

How does that hold up in the wind?

We've once experienced an unexpected "Sunshine Coast" heavy drenching (100mm rain in 3 hrs) and 50km/hr gusts. I hammered a couple of sand pegs over the steel runners to hold the tent frame in place and zippered all the flaps shut... there were next to no leaks mainly because the tarp held firm. But it was a bit noisy! Thankfully it was late afternoon rather than at night...
EDIT
We've had the tent for 12 yrs. I got it online from a Vic. camping business which used stock them before they closed down. The Trekka Oasis is a French product and my Aussie cousins now long time residents of the Tyrol tell me they're fairly common with the summer camping crowd there....

 

[emax]

His wife seems lovely and she once told a story about their travels, it was so well orated I could have listened to her all day.

I've wondered the same thing: how in the world did he get to such a charming person?

 

[emax]

My wife would like a motorhome (camping car, or how do you call these unhandy huge caravans with a motor?), and she want to travel only to Italy ...
I refuse stubbornly ... unsure:

But you can spend ten seasons in Italy and won't have seen everything. Zillions of things, foods and landscapes to discover - from the Alps to Calabria, in Siciliy and Sardegna.

 

[DaveB]

But you can spend ten seasons in Italy and won't have seen everything. Zillions of things, foods and landscapes to discover - from the Alps to Calabria, in Siciliy and Sardegna.

Totally agree with you.
So many small villages & towns with amazing things to see
Lovely people as well.

 

[globalgregors]

I have to be in Basel for almost two weeks in June for work
My wife and a friend will go to Greek Islands and I will join them for a week after
I wouldn't mind using train or ferry rather than flying

Basel in June? You’re a stones throw away from some of the best driving roads in the world - you could make a loop of the St Gotthard and Furka passes in a day, let alone heading north for the forests, south for the vineyards or east for the Dolomites. Trains be damned!

 

[DaveB]

Basel in June? You’re a stones throw away from some of the best driving roads in the world - you could make a loop of the St Gotthard and Furka passes in a day, let alone heading north for the forests, south for the vineyards or east for the Dolomites. Trains be damned!

I will be working

 

[DCPU]

It seems odd if he rolled back on his original video to a softer version 2, that he then posted it on LinkedIn with these words:

 

[DaveB]

It seems odd if he rolled back on his original video to a softer version 2, that he then posted it on LinkedIn with these words:
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I think it is also good that he identifies as He/Him.
Where do you find out what you should identify as?

 

[Davman]

He can’t seem to work out what he wants. When he says in his second video that he is still enthusiastic about the project and that he still wants one … but he just can’t afford it. This seems to be quite contradictory to his text above, and obvious content of his first video version.
Perhaps after all of his rejections and blood pressure raising rants, he has finally burst a blood vessel.
Perhaps Mrs ASPW needs to have a few quiet words with him.

A veteran influencer like him should know that once he puts something out on on the WWW, you can’t get it back.

I can’t see Ineos ever wanting to collaborate with him after this rant.

 

[bigleonski]

So tempted to reply to he/him/his tripe on LinkedIn, but it’s a professional medium and my reply sadly would be very unprofessional. A bit like his post really.

 

[DenisM]

Oh dear!! As Mrs Brown is want to say to her boys when things don't go her way "That's interesting!"

 

[bigleonski]

Quick question- on Youtube can you edit / delete replies to one of your videos if you don’t like them?

Just had a quick look and his devotees to the messiah are congratulating him in droves and I cannot see a single negative reply?

 

[Davman]

I congratulated him…..for saving me money each month - just before I cancelled my patreon subscription.

 

[Noddy]

Quick question- on Youtube can you edit / delete replies to one of your videos if you don’t like them?

Just had a quick look and his devotees to the messiah are congratulating him in droves and I cannot see a single negative reply?

There is one from me. Cannot stand this bloke. Total hypocrite and self obsessed.

 

[Tazzieman]

He deletes posts he doesn't like.
The whole point of youtube comments is to allow the users communicate with the content producer, to help make better videos and consider the consequences of their posted uncensored product.
He is as big a narcissist as Trump. It will end in tears before long.
Maybe he should try tiktok?

btw his angry angsty comment above is on the you tube clip under "see more"

 

[Camskii]

Yep seems like he is burning his bridges because he hasnt gotten his own way. Maybe he needs PVS automotive to send him some more hideous shit to fill his cabin with.

Also it looks like the post on the same topic on the Australian FB group got pulled down. Wonder why?

 

[emax]

Quick question- on Youtube can you edit / delete replies to one of your videos if you don’t like them?

Yes, you can - Barack would say.

And you can decide to "moderate" comments before they are published (i.e. not publish selected comments at all).