Tour of My Opus OP15 Off Road Camper, Part 1
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- Опубликовано: 17 сен 2024
- A walk around tour of my new OP15 Opus Off-Road camper. This video is from my Keep the Blaze Alive Coaching Squad.
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I will say it once more: every man wants to live as Pat does. There in the USA or here in Europe, all man wants to be Pat Mac.
He is very inspiring and cool on so many level...
Pat Mac wants to be chuck Norris...or does chuck Norris want to be pat Mac
And Batman!
@@jonathanrayhargrove1 Pat is the real deal
Pat would say, “ never miss an opportunity to be Batman”
You deserve this good life your having Pat! Proud of you man! 💪🏻🍻
What's going to happen when he dies?
I used to hate on campers and people that used them, like I was more in touch with nature because I slept in a tent. Turning 35 now, I’ve got the old lady and the busted back. A camper with a toilet and a mattress - I have changed my position.
Time will do this to all of us....lol.
My wife and I have been full time living in our camper for 4 years now.
Total off grid solar setup and evergthing.look into battle born batteries they're expensive but fucking awesome. We literally NEVER turn off our fridge. And we have a residential electric fridge/freezer. Love it!
Hey Pat. Congratulations on a great buy. These are very, very common in Australia. It’s a great base camp. Welcome to common camping in Australia. Join some Australian forums for great ideas on making it better. We have been camping like this all over Australia for year’s and wouldn’t have it any other way. Well done brother.
It’s that old Gypsy blood you guys have.
When it comes to overlanding, offroading, camping, glamping and that sort of thing it seems like you Australians make the highest quality equipment. How popular is the outdoors in Australia?
@@khaanadian9648 uhhh very popular, crocodile Dundee, steve irwin? Outback steakhouse
@@khaanadian9648 Well there's a lot of it and relatively few of us so it's more than easy to escape into nature out here. A 45 - 60 min drive out of any major city (Syd, Mel, Bne) will land in you in the country and it goes on and on and on from there with all manner of landscape (grassland, rivers, beaches etc) + our roads are HQ + several large scale specialty stores have popped up in the past 20 years dedicated solely for gear/supplies, so yeah it's massively popular.
Welcome to the "money pit" of glamping! Been doing it for 8 years now...Love it!
My wife and I have three sons, we started off with a small bumper pull, now we have a 42’ fifth wheel!
It’s definitely fun, relaxing, and something that the whole family enjoys!
It takes a lot of work, but we are making memories with our daughters. I have a 36’ 5th-wheel toy hauler. A Genesis Supreme, and it been awesome the last 4 years. We’ve gone over 25 times. Load up the Quads and the teenage daughters and their friends…no internet for a weekend (that they know of)priceless !
hot set up Mac! 52 recently divorced and thought about how fun "Overlanding" would be... 10 days ago i couldn't breathe, so weak and fever, felt like food poisoning I had to get to the ER. found out I have Leukemia (blood cancer) and I'm under intense chemo and hope i will be able visit more wilderness if i can get out of the hospital
Stay strong man! Prayers for full recovery
I used to sell these here in Australia. I couldn’t be happier waking up to this video!!!!!!!!
Nice camper. We have a Jeep Wrangler, so needed something a little smaller and got the Boreas XT. Still a completely off-grid trailer. We have been Overlanding for a few years now and highly recommend it. You get to go to a lot of places that you normally wouldn't. The scenery is amazing. Have fun.
Unsurprisingly over the top Bad Ass machine.
Don't forget to get the in-line water softener canisters for your fresh water/blue tanks. They remove all kinds of contaminates, and it makes youe water taste much better. Congrats on the new set up. ROCK ON!
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One of our hobbies is walking wrecking-yards aka 'dismantlers'.
As the aluminum sides of a RecreateVehicle are removed for scrap, the innerds are available for inspection.
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We see translucent fresh-water tanks with inches of mucky sediment.
We think an in-line filter -- one would be minimum, several in series is ideal -- is mandatory for filling a factory RecreateVehicle tank.
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2003, we converted a 1996 Ford CF8000 commercial truck to our concept of an ExpeditionVehicle.
We decided against one or two yuge fresh-water tanks.
Instead, we use stainless-steel five-gallon retired Pepsi kegs.
Advantages:
* modular -- our standard load is seven kegs -- thirty-five gallons -- but we can easily double or triple that
* a couple-three kegs can go to town for re-fill while the others stay in camp
* if one keg gets stanky, the others stay in use... and can clean the problem-child
* a keg can go to the campfire or picnic-table.
And a few dozen more kegs can fit in the toy-hauler I fabricated from a similar commercial chassis.
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These kegs are engineered to be pressurized.
For our use, a quick puff from a 12vdc bicycle tire pump gives fresh clean water from the outlet, a stand-still house kitchen-sink sprayer.
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For showers, we use a dedicated three-gallon 'Torpedo' keg, a miniature of the Pepsi kegs.
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To heat water, we use 'sous vide' circulation heaters designed to hold cooking water at a set temperature.
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After a half-century of camping in lesser rigs, experimenting with gadgets and gizmos, our ExpeditionVehicle is as simple as we can get.
Funny how this video popped up in my feed Pat. My wife and I were just this morning looking at getting this exact camper. Thanks for the tour. That thing is sick!!!
I new from the first glance that it is an Aussie camper van. Australia is king when it comes to camping 👍
Been living the RV life for three years and am building a home off grid now, nothing like knowing you can load up and be going anywhere you want in a matter of minutes. I can’t say enough about how wonderful living offgrid in the mountains is, never felt more free.
I quit my job last year and thought about getting one of those and driveway surfing til I figured out what was gonna do with my life. They're way cool. I'm still gonna get one. Thanks for the review! Rock n Roll!
Love the low-tech license plate screen.
I wanna get Benz Sprinter medium sized AWD Motorhome for years . I absolutely love the Overlanding concept . We rented one couple years ago for 10 days and it was what my life was missing . We pulled small trailer for the Dirtbikes .
Congrats bro on the RV . I'm sure you guys will have epic adventures. I know out west is so awesome for Overlanding and riding some bikes
These campers don't suck LOL....glad to hear you guys joined the glamping community. Rock n roll!!
That field kitchen is bloody awesome
I am at that crossroad. We’ve done every type of setup from tents to teardrops to Rv to travel trailer.
I love the opus. A little bit of glamping with a a lot of off road off grid.
That trailer is bad freaking ass! I love it.
Diggin the toyotas!
Reliability = Survivability!
I’ve never had a rear cam on my truck. But I hook up first try ever time!!! 💯🇺🇸💪👀
If your fridge runs on propane, use that and save your battery. You’re going to need 2000 watt inverter at least. More if you want to run an A/C if you have it. Small 2500watt gas generator. Then you can be off grid for a while. I live in Montana and we’re camping this week. Totally crowded in most campgrounds.
Pat Mac's wife did the shopping for the off-road camper. That's some no dude deserves it that good stuff!
Nice. No stranger to campers and RV's. My most memorable was a 13ft Scamp when I lived in Alaska as a young man. A great unit. Up there if the weather was nice the bugs were out. If the bugs were down the weather was nasty. It was a nice way to still get out but have a place to retreat from the bugs, weather and larger things that might try to eat you. Good memories. You can haul bikes and kayaks and whatever gear on the truck with a trailer too. I have an (inherited) ginormous Lance slide in if anyone is shopping - LOL.
You don’t usually hear many people talk about anything being catywhompus any more but I understand you perfectly brother. Keep up the good work brother.
God Bless Bro. I'm tossing $20 in through the door for good luck (figuratively) from here in NY. Smart on your part camping FIRST with the Mrs. as opposed to dropping 22 grand and hearing "I'm taking the kids to a hotel"... Run all your appliances every 2 months... Mind the deep cycle batteries (take care of them) and you'll have a blast for years!
That’s awesome, Mac! Glamping can be fun, too
Awesome, congrats to you and your bride! We've been glamping for almost 2 years and love it, like you said, its an adventure. Enjoy the ride, its fun! Pulling a 28' with the exact same truck with no problems at all.
Very cool! I love the color.
Love the Travel Trailer Pat! I tow with my tundra as well. I'm towing a 6400 lbs (gross) travel trailer and the tundra does great, but requires a weight distribution hitch and sway control. My 2014 tundra manual says the limit for towing without a weight distribution hitch is 5000 lbs (sr5 crew max 4x4 offroad). Your year/trim Tundra may be different. Checkout the equalizer hitch if you are interested. So far it is my favorite and is easy to remove the bars when you need offroad articulation. Cheers and safe travels to you and Rebecca!
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Eugene, Oregon.
RUclipsr 'Nomadic Sarah' acquired a new Airstream from the dealer here.
They offer a two-day orientation, with the purchaser using all the systems during an over-night on the lot.
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That helps with confidence!
Bought a 96 Jayco Pop Up this Spring and I'm as excited as you are Pat. Thanks for taking us along, as always!
Love that. I would get one. But I just got a trailer for free. Maybe in the future
Awesome! I can’t wait to see the inside.
Titan fuel tanks makes fuel tanks called the sidekick I think that bolt on in bed on the sides and usually curve over the wheel wells in the bed. Little more expensive than Jerry cans but might be something worth the investment because it’s a more long term solution and also concealable under a tonneau cover on the truck bed
2003, the foundation vehicle for our ExpeditionVehicle had a single 50-gallon fuel-tank.
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At a heavy-truck dismantlers, we acquired a 140-gallon 'saddle' tank... for a total of 190-gallons on the rig.
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We acquired a 120-gallon fuel-tank for the poop-deck on the toy-hauler.
In theory, our range is Anchorage-to-Acapulco without re-fueling.
Awesome Pat maybe we'll see you out there somewhere
Handy tip!!! Get yourself a drill and attach the awning end to it then just BOOOOMMM!!!! You’ve got yourself an electric awning hahaha
Damn, it was crazy to hear that I’ve done a lot of something that Pat Mac has never done. Towing. I’m sure you’ll get the hang of it quickly!
That struck me too! Basic dude stuff!
That's sweet rig. Congrats.
Thank you for the tour of your camper. We hope you and yours have many great adventures with it.
Wow that’s a awesome rig Pat congrats
That’s a great rig. You can also bump up those propane bottles to 30 pounders to give you a little extra time out. You might also consider a couple lithium batteries for better storage / usage capacity. I ran a slightly larger unit up here in Alberta Canada. By the way, even if your truck is not sagging, a set of airbags is still a good idea to help with handling etc. Good luck 👍🏻
Dang, that’s awesome, you like your about to go to Jurassic Park with that trailer
Was looking at the airstream base camp but this op15 just obliterated that wish list! Thanks Pat! 😅
"Super frickn' cool," is right!
Never thought I’d be watching a video about a camper at 730 in the morning. But I guess I did just get done working 12hr on night shift time for bed. Wish I had one of those to sleep in for some peace and quiet. Just know now she has a place to kick you out to. So better be on best behavior from here on lol.
Congratulations on the new camper. One of our favorite spots is the NPS campground on Ocracoke Island.
Congrats, I heard those campers were super badass. Enjoy living the Outdoor Life and makes it a great bug out option that you can set up anywhere off grid. Now you need to set up some John Wick hidden safe compartment customization on the inside.
Congratulations on your purchase of the OPUS. They are magnificent equipment.
Welcome to the club brother. 👍
Cool rig. Thanks for the tour.
Congrats on an awesome camper. I hope I speak for all of your followers when I say I hope you and Rebecca do some videos of future off grid trips with it. That’s an ultimate bug out camper and as a fellow Tundra Crewmax owner, you’ve got the perfect tow rig for it.
Great video as always it's nice to know we had a celebrity in Roanoke recently 🤘
The only thing that sucks about a Tundra is they are thirsty.
Congratulations brother! Should see some use this winter!
Pat you and your wife are setup
I’ve watched these Australian campers on RUclips they have a shit ton of videos with how they camp where they camp Beach the Outback. They make the best homes Rebecca did her homework give her an A good luck have fun
This camper is sick! I want one bad!
Cool setup. Thanks for the insight. I’m finally to old and beat up to sleep on the ground for more than a couple nights.
Got me waiting on part 2 like a Netflix special. 🔥
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I recommend watching the movie “RV” &keeping it in your RV!
A rv could be best Best bug out vehicle for a family. You can use at home when power goes out or for quarantine or in-laws house!
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Love it! The campering bug is strong, and no doubt that a hobby heavy guy like you will go down the rabbit hole. Safe travels, and hopefully we run into each other out on the road!
You can pull a vehicle behind an RV but I went with the truck and camper set up. Heading out for some off grid camping my idea of a good time. It becomes base camp for all manner of activities.
That’s a slim comparison pat. I have a trailer and there’s a lot more comparisons then that. Like if you have a rig you can pull a boat, a little drive around car yada yada.
So the coupling is can a DO35 hitch!, these caravans run independent suspension with dual shocks each side, has a 100L fresh water tank and grey water, 200amp of battery, 2 100W solar, USB Ports everywhere, Outdoor kitchen and indoor plus indoor and outdoor shower. The chassis is 1 piece galvanised chassis. Plus indoor and outdoor speaking’s for radio!!!!
Overlanders FN rock! Great score.
Seen these trailers on their website before, they are awesome trailers for anyone after more remote camping locations.
See those a lot in the mountains as I start up the logging roads during elk hunting. Very nice maybe I’ll get one for my 70th B day
Very Nice!! Congrats!
Practice backing up a trailer if you've never towed before. I worked with a trailer on y truck every day for years and years. Take your time and really understand what's going on and how to achieve your desired goal and the rest will just take experience. Find a parking lot, a field just some open space and practice backing that thing up, turning around like you pulled onto a dead end 1.5 lane road. That'll help.
I'm sure after 20+ years in the military he's driven with a few trailers of.
@@SgtRudySmith31bRet he said it was his first time in the video.
Awesome Mac!
Congrats on joining the ranks! I'll add you to the list of the people I want to run into while camping.
Sweet set up
yeah that's awesome!! I was looking at the Opus but I decided not to pull and put a GoFast on my truck.
Very cool!
Congrats Mac! I have been wanting something around this size. I would be proud to be called a Glamper because I spent many nights in the Appalachian mountains where you just find a spot and hunker down, its cool but been there done that. I will get one of these one day but also need the right truck so we shall see.
I know exactly wht you mean,was the same with myself and my wife traveled Europe in an RV then a trailer couple of times then Roof tent :) all have pros and cons really
Nice rig pat, welcome to overlanding.
Love everything about my Tundra but damn she's thirsty. BUT ... I'll take that legendary reliability + crap mileage over all the issues I'd have with a diesel. Great video ... right now we're looking at pros/cons of towable vs. slide-in. The perfect solution is to be uber-rich and have 1 of everything 😄
Hey pat if you want good camping, go out to Stanley ID and hike the sawtooth wilderness and the white cloud wilderness. My favorite is the 4th of July trail to Born Lake. It’s an easy hike but with a nice alpine lake at the end.
For fuel cans look at Waivan USA. We’ve used everything from old issue cans we used in the Army the plastic jerries, to other styles. Nothing so far meets the durability or quality of the new German Jerry remakes. Plus you can look online and find a cool transfer pump for fuel.
Badass camper man! I've heard really good things about those.
That air conditioner takes camping to a whole new level
Nice rig Pat! I have a 5th wheel toy hauler myself. Got a Honda side by side in the back that’s road legal most of the places I go.
Super cool. I want one myself, just a lot smaller. But I do a lot more extreme off road trips.
Nice
Absolute wicked rig, congrats bro!
Awesome video! Can't wait for part two. What an awesome trailer. My brother has got an off-road addition and I know exactly what you're talking about towing a marshmallow LOL
You're going to want more of a truck now.. A 3/4 ton to 1 ton Ford or Ram for sure.
That campers badass. There's a lot of good apps nowadays to find camping and offroad spots too.
Did I just hear u say ur headed to the rockies soon? Looking forward to some kick ass content!
100% hoping for a Parma goes camping series
That's an awesome rig!
Great video!
Nice Pat, just think if you guys get a tornado/fire/shtf/zombie apocalypse whatever, you are not homeless, no staying in hotels, you always have shelter and you are mobile .
Sweet!
The Opus designers were definitely thinking of Pat when they built that camper.