A fifth wheel on a gooseneck ball keeps your truck bed clear, but the hookup has its own steps. Here is the procedure we should have followed the day we hitched our Brinkley for the first time.
A one-night stop only saves time if you can skip the full unhitch-and-level routine. Here is the level check we run before deciding to stay connected to the truck, plus the tolerances that decide it.
A trail of ants marched into our fifth wheel and Fabiola declared war. Here's the full defense we ended up with: vent screens, a perimeter spray, and a borax bait mixed at the right strength.
How we refill our fresh tank off-grid with a water bladder, a truck bed, and a gravity siphon, plus the potable-water handling steps we should have followed from the start.
A portable tote lets you stay parked for weeks and haul only the waste to the dump station. Here's the right way to fill, tow, and empty one, plus everything we got wrong trying it the first time.
The full first-day routine for a new Blackstone: the one soapy wash it will ever get, three rounds of heat and oil, the first burgers, and the two minute cleanup that keeps the surface slick.
The full CAT scale process for a truck and fifth wheel: two passes across the platforms, what the ticket numbers mean, and the mistakes we made on our first weigh.
