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Carbon Monoxide Safety With First Alert

The compact size of First Alert's portable tabletop CO alarm is easy to take anywhere.

As perpetual road trippers, we live over our truck's tail pipe. While this is no big deal in a best case scenario, in the case of a carbon monoxide (CO) leak, our health and safety is at risk. We have been rather blasé in the past but this winter, in the process of insulating our living space, we have cut out most of the drafts in our camper. We now live in a cozy home on wheels. But cozy can be dangerous when fumes start building up. So, we got a carbon monoxide detector.

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Brophy Camper Tie Downs

Brophy tie down, turnbuckle, and camper jack point.

When we first pick up our 1970 Avion truck camper we have no special equipment aside from our basic 2015 Ram 3500 to cary it. We set the camper on wooden 4x4s and secure it with cables wrapped around factory loops in our truck bed. In hindsight, if we actually came to a stress point where the only thing keeping the camper in the truck bed is the cables, I'm pretty sure something would fail. Fortunately, we are already suitably cautious about the whole affair and avoid steep, bumpy, or fast roads. Instead, we keep the ride smooth and slow from our pickup point in Florida to our workshop in Tennessee.

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Adjust-A-Grill Review

Grilling burgers outside, over a campfire on the Adjust-A-Grill.

It's fall and, for us that means one thing: campfire cooking. The air is getting crisper and it is the perfect time to gather around a campfire and enjoy the evening. My campfire cooking toolkit is quite extensive, but it just got a valuable addition with a gift from Adjust-A-Grill. This simple design of a steak driven into the ground and grill that can be attached at different heights along the stake allows me to take my hamburgers and steaks out of the frying pan to be cooked over the fire.

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