Set up time
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It does get quicker with experience. It took me exactly 10minutes on Friday to get it levelish and put down 3 legs (whoops) How do I know it was 10 minutes because I arrived exactly 10 minutes before the conference call I needed to attend.
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Rushing? Why not have a groundsheet like everyone else?
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Your time scale for stting up is about the same as us with our caravan as long as the pitch is level but then when we had our last motor caravan even if the pitch was level it as most Stevel based it usually neaded levelling as it sat nose down
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Having just moved back to a caravan our set up time is about the same. Given a level pitch the OH just reverses on and unhitches, while he is parking the car I wind down the legs. I then do the electrics while he does the water, as we don't do massive big containers it doesn't take long.
With the mh even with a level pitch we had to use ramps due to the cab being lower, lets not forget to include the time it takes to fill and empty 2 x 100 ltrs tanks
We are still sat out having a glass of something in 10 mins, division of labour is the key.
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You surely didn’t do the tanks at every set up, TG!
We find the secret to the slightly lower cab end is to place it on the higher end of the pitch - few of them are truly level.
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yes, we can generally spot the lie of the land as we approach, will,also try and put the nose at the 'high' end if convenient...
generally don't require levelling...
set up time....pretty much negligible....handbrake on, ignition off, swivel seats, turn on the gas, hook up if required....kettle usually on within 2 mins...eating a sarnie within 5...
out for a bit soon after that...
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If we need shopping, we share threading the awning into the rail, then I go shopping, while my husband pegs out (electric drill and screw pegs). As a bonus we can sit out late into the evening, when canopy users have retreated from the cold. Actually I like motorhomes for their facility to park in the countryside, at a viewing point etc, and enjoy a cuppa or lunch maybe, with a view. And I enjoy a caravan, with an awning, for its more spacious home from home facilities. Because our family includes a cat, who travels with us, we all enjoy the extra space which an awning provides. The penalty being that the awning skirt needs hermetically sealing against his escape - and that chore takes quite a lot of extra time over more basic pegging out. I guess that in an ideal world we’d have a van and a caravan, better still. a huge Winnebago. But life is a compromise. If only the rest was as simple as a peg out or use a canopy decisions.
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We usually fill up the water tank before we seek a pitch, we always travel with some in the tank for cuppa and the loo, never know when you may need either 😉. So that depends on water pressure!
Once a pitch is chosen it's rare for us to use ramps, OH very good judge of the level 😲, a little water in the kitchen sink to check but usually needn't bother. He connects the electric, I get kettle out and by the time it's filled and plugged in electrics on so cups out, chairs out and sit.
It's not a race but I don't want to hang about after all I'm on holiday 😂
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Never did time myself when setting up with caravan, as it was of no importance.
However, now with a motorhome, I am aware how much quicker it is to setup, in comparison with the caravan.
Not difficult to understand why. No unhitching, no legs to wind down, no aquarolls to fill, or wastemasters to put out, and no awning to erect.
That said none of the above bothered me, when we caravanned.
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That may well be the case with some of the longer mhos, but at 6m, without a large rear overhang, mine does not have rear steadies, and I guess because of the stiff suspension, it doesn't move when we step in the door.
On level ground, the van is level, but of course, on anything other than level ground, ramps are needed. As indeed they were a Incleborough Fields earlier this week.
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I agree, Dave, our 6m PVC is solid as a rock and the slight Sevel nose down stance is not very noticeable in that length, and in any case, can generally be overcome by utilising the high spots in the ground. We've had the van 12 months now and not yet needed the ramps.
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