Re: Road Trip From Florida to Alaska
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The trailer was loaded down with supplies for Faith Baptist Church, in the bush village of Saint Mary's, Alaska. A Harbor Freight sawmill, Evenrude 115 outboard, wood stove, generator, and too many other things to list. Was just under the max towing capacity for the Frontier.
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Re: Road Trip From Florida to Alaska
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09/02/19 01:38 AM
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After he was born, we headed South, where I preached and reported on the ministry in 45 churches in three and a half months, in Florida, Alabama, Mississippi, Georgia, South Carolina, North Carolina, Virginia, Oklahoma, Colorado, Idaho, Oregon, Washington, and Alaska. We are so thankful to the churches and individuals who donated to the ministry!
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Re: Road Trip From Florida to Alaska
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I made sure both trailer axles had electric brakes, and installed an electric brake controller on the truck. The trailer was bought to get all of the equipment for the ministry back to the road system, and then to be sold to buy a 20 foot container to put the truck, sawmill, boat motor, and other items into, with the sale of the trailer also paying for trucking the container from Palmer, Alaska, to Nenana, Alaska, where it would be put on a barge to go down the Tanana and Yukon Rivers to our village.
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Re: Road Trip From Florida to Alaska
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09/02/19 02:07 AM
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I had not one bit of trouble from the trailer, despite being the cheapest price on the market. I got a few extras, such as a foot of extra height, 6 recessed d-rings in the floor, 2 spare tires on wall mounts up high in the v-nose, electric brakes on both axles, diamond plate on the v-nose to prevent road rash.
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Re: Road Trip From Florida to Alaska
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09/02/19 02:33 AM
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Choosing the truck was difficult. It had to be crew cab for my family of 5, and fit in a 20' connex with the back 2' taken up by a sawmill and boat motor in crates, so it could be barged out to the bush village where we live to replace the Honda Foreman as our main ride. It also had to pull all of the ministry supplies from Florida to Alaska. This is why out of the only 2 contenders length wise, the Nissan Frontier won out over the Toyota Tacoma. It's max towing capacity was 1,500 pounds more than the Tacoma. When we got to Mississippi, the radiator leaked coolant into the transmission, causing it to go out. The nearest dealership in Oxford drug their heels, and took two weeks to get a new radiator and transmission put in. Other than that, it ran good, pulled good.went over a LOT of mountains no problem. Averaged 8 miles to the gallon pulling the trailer. Used a long trailer hitch to get more leverage on the trailer when backing up, and to give me better turning radius without jackknifing.
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Re: Road Trip From Florida to Alaska
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The truck was the Nismo 4x4 package, locking differential, moon roof, roof rack, topper. Lord willing, it will provide years of service on the little 26 mile road system we have out here, being used to haul me to the 3 bush villages that I can drive to to hold church services, picking up freight from the airport and dock as it is flown or barged out, doing visitation to the elderly and sick, launching the boat to go to other villages on the Yukon to minister, hauling logs back from the river for firewood or lumber, etc. God is good.
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Re: Road Trip From Florida to Alaska
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This is my third trip driving from Florida to Alaska, every one was done in a used vehicle. Just go through them with a fine tooth comb, fix any known problems, change all of the fluids and filters, make sure the brakes are in good shape, have good tires with two spares for each vehicle, especially a trailer, as it can be a pain to get new tires on the AlCan.Have a good set of tools, I always buy a Craftsman 1/4, 3/8, 1/2 inch drive socket set in it's case with wrenches, pliers and screwdrivers that are on sale. Much cheaper to work on your vehicles than to pay someone else. Buy a floorjack to take along. Have two five gallon cans for extra fuel on the AlCan.
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Re: Road Trip From Florida to Alaska
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09/02/19 03:05 AM
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Going through Western Canada is always amazing to me beautiful. Too many pictures to post. Saw a ton of black and grizzly bears. As A white, conservative male, I have found that the guards expect me to have a gun. The one time I didn't, the Canadian border guards looked for the gun I didn't have for 6 hours. I have always taken guns across the border since then, and have never even had them look at the guns. I just have the appropriate paperwork filled out, they take the paperwork, make sure it's in order, and I'm on my way in a few minutes. My wife somehow thinks I'm somehow cheating when I buy guns for this purpose, but she was there when they looked for the guns I didn't have, so she grudgingly goes along with it! I enjoy driving through Canada. Nice people.
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Re: Road Trip From Florida to Alaska
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09/02/19 03:47 AM
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It was fun Jeff. You'll have to come down to FL with me next time and hunt some hogs and bush hook catfish, fresh, pristine river caught, not the farm raised fish you eat in restaurants.
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