Great adventure as always. Super footage guys. I think you have a great ratio of the journey, the destination and also the bits letting us to get to know who u are personally. I don't know what the other in-between bits the other viewers are looking for🤔 Great to see you returned after the car repairs. Im sure the kids will cherish the memories forever. Im hoping to do the Gibb next year and your vlog has truly inspired me.
Awesome video! Great tips to share and loved the first one. Hubby and I are new to this and don’t know where to start, so any tips are good tips, even though these were errors for you both. Thanks for taking the time to do this video, xx
I live in Missouri, the middle of the US. We used to live on the west coast and camped often, since we've moved it has been a lot less frequent but as we get more settled in we are going a bit more. I just find it very interesting the differences and similarities between our set ups. I have to have a converter available when you talk numbers and weights HAHA. In the last video I watched was getting your weights right. Correct me if I am wrong but 6000 kilograms is the total combined weight of the car and caravan correct? 6000Kilo converts to just over 13,000lbs, thats what we call CGVWR, Combined Gross Vehicle Weight Rating. My F150 has a CGVWR of 14,300lbs so just under 6500K. I just find that very interesting and it makes me wonder why when my truck is so much bigger. Any ways hope to see more new videos soon, enjoy your time away!
Hi there, yes it sounds like your CGVWR and our GCM are the equivalent of each other. however 6500kg seems low for a F150, I just googled F150 GCM in Australia and it came up with 7765kg or 17119 lb's. We will be back putting out videos very soon, thanks for watching them.
Thanks mate. Almost back on the road, just the South WA bad weather damaged our van so we are waiting for repair. Should be back on the tube in a few weeks.
Great video. Thankyou. Are you able to swap roles with each other? For example can Mel park up whilst Brett gives directions? I’m teaching my wife to park up, hook up and unhook the van, drive whilst towing etc. You never know when either one of you might need the skills the other has developed. Anyway thanks for sharing 👍😎
I havent finished watching this video yet. But you brought up a good point. As another youtuber was confused by the two cooking areas on some of the campervans they hired. But i like how you ditched the outdoor kitchen to lighten your load👌. I think if you want to cook outdoors a little weber bbq does the trick.
Thank you for making this video. Your right about not many people own up to making mistakes, but when your new to this, like my husband and I, we are still tenting it ATM. Yeah it's a learning curve. I like the idea of the checklist 👍 strap the fridge👍 . We plan on hiring a few different caravans first to see which might suit us and our 4x4. Looking forward to more videos guys....
See, as I have said before. Vans are dangerous to everyone on the highways. Ban the things. Idiots with them have no idea. Ask them what GVM is and they look at you like you have 3 heads. just a bunch of ignorant morons.
Hi mate, it's been a while since this vid. I assume your asking in relation to our swing arm being cracked, something we would of noticed sooner if we were paying attention to our tyre wear. The answer is no, we were under warranty, and we had the entire swing arm replaced. We did how ever have to supply to G n S chassis a weigh report showing that our van was under its weight limits (at our cost I might add) before they would honour our warranty claim. Thanks for watching, Svedo.
Thank you guys for posting this video. I am a complete "Novice" but am looking at buying a new car & a van of about 16 ft.. You are completely open about your trials & tribulations. Hopefully, we can all learn from ever one else's mistakes. Many thanks, Pete
Thanks heaps for your straight forward and very informative video's that you make. I've watched a few others but yours are the best for newbies. Thanks
You need either a bigger tow vehicle or a smaller van like a camper trailer. Too many manufacturers are cooking the books on 3.5T towing! Your van isn't the problem your BT50 is too small.
Being realistic if you're going to tow a heavy caravan buy a bigger tow vehicle like an Iveco daily 4x4 truck if your going to drive around Australia and keep your boat! Medium size dual cab ute with a 3.5T tow capacity is a joke and is for towing a boat to the local ramp.
Well because oil is down (which also means everybody Woodside shares..) We paid $1.75 a litre for diesel here in Darwin today.. unbelievably cheap! Heading to Katherine then Kununurra tomorrow for our first 'real' trip other than hour drives. Really looking forward to it Thanks for the vids guys, please keep them coming. We wanna be like you
@@SvedosTrippin Thanks mate. Enjoying so far but will list noted undesirables: 1. Pooing in public toilets next to people in dead silence not fun 2. Certain neighbours can be less than ideal 3. Air con compressor thumps at night on/off 4. Risk of high speed collision increases over most people not travelling insane highways towing 5. Pretty tight space 6. Not ideal getting up early for your partner Apart from that, it's nice to be somewhere different and not go to work. Certainly unique so far
@@SvedosTrippin Currently on a gravel pit roadside stopover 60km from Katherine heading home tomorrow. Neighbours bin van parks can be annoying, and probably almost anywhere there's others around really but this place is quite good tonight. It's been good but can see how quickly the novelty wears off. Still better than working and hanging about home though. Expensive🫰 and everything really does break! Like you said. Somehow I thought we'd buck the trend
thank you so much guys you are right it isn't easy to talk about. hey quick question i am new to towing a van. we are heading to cobalt gorge which has 45km of corrugation road. do you think it is necessary to deflate the tires for a short trip
Hiya, if the roads are corrugated, it would be a good idea to drop pressures. I personally would drop the line if it's more than 5-10KM of corrugations then drop pressure.
Yeah no worries. All of our footage has been captured on the mavic air 2S. We have just upgraded to the latest model, the mavic air 3 but i havent created any content with it yet. I really only know about the mavic drones, they are the class leaders in drones so I will only talk about them. The mavic air is the mid range drone and middle in size also. They also have the mini and the pro. The air model can handle windy conditions far better than a mini can and as creators we can justify the extra size and cost for this purpose alone. The mini has a smaller size and flight time but it's form factor is great and it's far less obnoxious when in the air. The camera quality will be comparable but obviously the bigger drones will have better cameras with bigger sensors as they can carry more. The mavic pro is much larger and far more obnoxious in the air, but comes with a better camera and increased flight time. It would be much harder to store the pro in a caravan and we can't justify the space and cost as the air model suits our needs. Hope this helps.
@@SvedosTrippin Thanks so much for sharing guys and can't wait till you start doing videos again PS, the wife says she loves Mel's dresses Thanks again and travel safe
I was wondering how much itll cost my wife and I as were thinking of retiring at 61, buying a van and 4wd and travelling and living fulltime as we dont own anymore and were gojng to live offmy super ,but at those figure youve shown ,Ide say we may have to pick up oart time work if we travel as I told Super mob we'd only need $40 k a year ,so might have to recalculate! Very incitive, thanks
Your very welcome. Do keep in mind children are expensive, they impact food, accomodation and then other random expenses. As a couple that is frugal you could manage somewhere around $50K.
Thanks for the reply ,so with a possible 2nd hand caravan around 20ft ,new fourby ,we might be able to survive ,but we'd have to do a spread sheet like you guys ,plus my entertainment is surfing that's it @@SvedosTrippin
