Caravan Storage
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Personally, I’d stick with the camper unless you’re fit enough to hitch/unhitch a caravan, wind corner steadies, carry water to and fro and so on. Most people when making a change in older age switch from caravan to camper/motorhome but some do it the other way.
There is a storage section on this forum -
https://clubtogether.caravanclub.co.uk/categories/storage
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When we lived in Horwich we used Wingates Storage, but you probably know about that one. We were always happy storing our caravans there, no problems. I don't know of any others in the area, there used to be one on the A6 in Adlington, but noticed a while back there were no caravans at all there.
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I'm your age and I often look with envy on small MH (including all types here) when picking up my caravan to returning it at the end of a trip.
Have you had any experience of caravaning? To start a trip, there's the taking off the caravan wheel locks and/or hitch locks involving some bending down, winding steadies up, then moving the caravan to hitch up (and alone you'll need a motor mover I would say) then wind the caravan down onto the hitch (easy) then wind up the jockey wheel then some serious bending down and connecting up the car to caravan electrics, then checking them, then fitting and checking the towing mirrors. There's two of us and it takes up to ten perhaps fifteen minutes. All that in reverse order at the other end but add in EHU and water and waste connections and leveling up too.
Oh, and it will even be more 'fun' doing all that when it's raining heavily, very windy, and/or dark.
I've seen MH just get in and go from storage and up and running on sites in maybe five minutes? Now at the moment having a 'detached' car fits in with our touring needs and this advantage, if you like, outweigh the 'disadvantages' above.
Sorry I know this isn't answering your question but I would really think about it in case you haven't.
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Hi Paul, if however you do decide to go ahead, and if you can find a small caravan for £2000 which is roadworthy and internally dry, and if you have a suitable car to tow it, (all big ifs) , then cheap storage may perhaps have to be be at a farm in a rural area out of the town where you live. Some may say that a farmyard or the corner of a field is insecure but a caravan of the small size, old age and low value which you are buying need not be kept in a high tech, high security compound. You may find ideas for farm storage by asking on a local residents Facebook page, but you may need to drive out of town and knock on farmhouse doors and ask for suggestions. Good luck.
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I would suggest Farm based storage as as well, with some good research. We mainly had our van at home, but we actually used to leave it in Cornwall for months at a time, on a farm CL that we used that had storage permission for horse boxes and trailers. They were generous with us, and we had a good relationship. It was an old van, and we left nothing of value in it, and didn’t fret about it to be honest. We ended up with two vans, one left in Cornwall, another smaller one we toured with, and this we also used a local farm for storage, in fact where we stabled our horse. It wasn’t insured, we didn’t leave anything of value in it. Farms usually had good security, so might be worth a go for you?
We have a small but comfy MH now. Only time we would go back to a van would be as a seasonal, and doubt it will happen. Stored at home, on the drive, we come and go in very quick time, so much easier than a caravan.
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