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Only used one time and it was the weekend that the hurricane came up from the Gulf of Mexico and ran up into the Appalachians, where I live, and plowed through where we were camping. As my review stated, the RTT was snug and water-tight. The annex held up for a few hours, but if, when you say...

Look for my post down below in this forum for my in-depth (i.e.wordy) review of our inaugural experience with a TSO Ranger. TLDR-Great RTT, the annex leaves a lot to be desired in 2" rain in a 4 hour span.

Update: Had a good exchange with the TSO Customer Service team. They immediately offered a refund/exchange and then went dark when I said that wasn't what I wanted. I poked them after a week and they seemed to understand I was not some rube looking for money back but genuinely want to resolve...

I tried hard to figure out a way to do an awning coming off of our Tuff Stuff bed rack but can't come up with a placement that works to my satisfaction. So I used an E-Z Up in our mini-monsoon inaugural RTT campout last weekend. I liked the flexibility of moving the EZ Up where the pad was...

Trucks/vehicles parked in rest areas do not have nylon sides that can be sliced like a hot knife through butter. I spent years in a OTR Truck-centered business. The things that happen at night to truckers - with hard sided shells and doors that lock, mind you, should advise you that tenting in...

Answers to questions 2 and 3 are all over this forum. I have no idea on 1. Most rest areas have rules on overnight parking. On the auto side, I'd say no, a trooper will likely run you off, with good reason. On the truck side, maybe. I wouldn't recommend it either way.

I will but ( Lord willing and the creek don't rise ) it won't rain like that every time. Mrs P needs the annex to prevent the midnight-flashlight-walk to the latrine, so it's going to be a necessary component of our RTT experience, regardless of the climate outside at the moment. I attach the...

No. I regret that but as they say "When you're up to **************** in alligators is no time to take requests for pictures of the swamp." Or something like that/

"Your insight serves you well." - Obi Wan Kenobi It's like being shot at: Just because it's happened to you before is no reason to desire it to happen again.

"Capillary effect". THAT was the phrase that was escaping me as I conjured up my post. Bless you. I will be disappointed if I get a Gallic shrug from Tuff Stuff. I know you can't account for truly overwhelming meteorological conditions, I have to think mine was not the first to undergo such a...

First time last weekend (09OCT20) using the new Tuff Stuff RTT. Verdict on the RTT itself: Outstanding. It was everything Tuff Stuff advertised. The foam mattress is effective but a tad stiff for our 60-year frames so we are working on a mod to use inflatable therma-rests (which we have and have...

The model RTT I have from TSO only has the standard (non-telescoping) ladder. I just found the height/angle I wanted, marked it and drilled holes to lock it in place there.

Agree 100%. The Tuff Stuff videos set the expectation to store the annex apart from the RTT so I planned on that. Working on a solution to getting the ladder out of the way during the day. May not be one with the present configuration, but that would really make the annex livable space.

Randun, you are asking great questions and are appreciative of answers, so I'll jump, though I am only slightly less noob-ish than you. The people on this site are a trove of helpful information and I do not see the snobbishness that some sites have toward new and curious people. Very...

This photo shows what I use as my technique for ratchet straps, as I don't need anything else. (CRS happens a lot at my age.) It's imperfect but accomplishes the mission. I know the advantages of Daisy chaining extension cords, but I have muscle-memory of climber's coils and just don't seem to...

I have an F150. My wife and I are both 60 and plan on doing this for the next 10 years, at least. We just got a Tuff Stuff Ranger and a Tuff Stuff rack to load it over the bed. My plan is to use leverage to get one end on the dropped tailgate and dead lift /stand it up from there, like a tire...

Our Tennessee Kroger has them for $1.37 a box. Seems like a no-brainer for the shelf-stable camp food supplies.

BT DT. Actually, I'll show my age...C-Rats and LRRPs. ;-P

First Post: My Tuff Stuff Ranger (they had me at the name) arrives within 10 days. I appreciate all the wisdom being shared here and am considering much of it to apply upon installation of the RTT on the rack over my F150 bed.