hey everybody welcome back my name is John and I'm Mercedes and we are the RV
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videos yeah in this video I'm gonna talk about how to prepare the rig to move
when we're getting ready to move from one place to another what we do to get
ready for that the way it works for me and I'm gonna talk a little bit about
putting away all your lines putting away your plumbing and getting ready to pull
your slide ins and outs because he covers all the outside stuff and I cover
all the inside stuff so this is part of a two-part series and John's gonna talk
about his domain that's my domain that's his doing that's why it's
accessible he does his stuff I do my stuff inside he stays outside yeah so we
hope you enjoy the video yeah
so today is moving day and I'm gonna show you what I do to prepare to move
the RV to our next location through trial-and-error I've kind of come up
with a sequence that works best for us saves power on my battery and I can use
to my advantage the fact that there's gonna be an earthquake inside of this so
this is where all my tanks are located my gray tank my black tank I've got a
galley tank this is where my main water comes into from the park this is where I
feel fresh water up in the tanks in case we're boondocking so typically what I'll
do is out empty all my tanks including the freshwater tank because we haven't
been using it for a week so I'll start off obviously with the black tank I'm
gonna flush the black tank empty it down to about 33% what I'll do is I'll drop a
green bag in the toilet before we move it and by moving it what that does is
it's gonna swish the water all around and kind of clean that tank for us as we
go second I'm gonna open the grey tank why the gray tank second the grey tank
is gonna kind of clean out the black tank which is poopy and stuff like that
it cleans out that line the line that I have running from the RV into the waste
line of the park that we're in so always empty the black line first and then you
use your other grade tanks and galley tanks to clean that line out for storage
so as you can see this is where my Park Service is this is where my electrical
goes and this meter over here and then down on the ground you'll see our waste
service lines that we connect it into typically electrical is the very last
thing I take I don't want to put any wear and tear on my battery while I'm
pulling in all my slides I'm lifting up the auto leveling system I'm gonna use
as much park power as I can before I shut down so disconnecting my my power
my 50 amp power is gonna be the last thing that I do so I am now about to
detach my waste water my black water pipe it's borange pipe that runs from
the RV into a service typically most parks have
services where you just want it from the RV into the away system as a matter of
fact when you first arrive at your camping location or RV park that's the
first thing you want to locate because what I do is I can call and I put it
down to know exactly where I need to be when I'm packing it in we're pulling it
through one of the way or the other so what I use is I ordered a bunch of these
gloves and I have disinfectant I I'm one of those guys that does not like germs
and I use probably a full bottle of this every single day it's in my truck it's
in my car it's at my house in my RV the black pipe black water the sewer system
my RV this is my least favorite part but there is a way to do it to stay clean
not get the crap crap on you and that's what I do so this is my black water
clean-out right here at the park I detached from the RV put on your gloves
disconnect the main pipe empty out does not smell good huh
I don't gag as much as I used to and then I like a clear fitting so that I
can see what I'm emptying and again always empty your blacks first when
you're getting ready to pack your hoses unscrew this
and then what I'm gonna do is I'm gonna rinse this down with fresh water before
I pack it I do have it's a special case for this that is not in the RV I lock it
in so I just don't want my kids getting sick or me getting sick and then I
squirt out the hose as well all right guys so I got my hose detach it from the
park sewer system also my RV now I'm going to clear out my fittings and while
I'm cleaning these out talk a little bit about mistakes that we've made with this
stuff in the past we only had 10 feet of hose when we started now we carry a 10
foot hose and then carry two extensions 20 feet which I keep in the back bumper
of the RV it is a is a 4 inch square pipe on the bumper of the RV that
actually holds that black pipe typically you want to have all the fittings you
need if something can go wrong it will go wrong so always be prepared some
people will tell you not to carry more than 10 those are the people that I
listen to and I ended up having to get another 20 with extensions obviously the
extensions uh I don't like them because there's this fittings and the fittings
get muck on them so but if you get if you need the extra room you need the
extra room the most important thing about black pipe is storage where you
gonna keep it don't keep it obviously with this food or I don't like even in
the travel trailer whatsoever whether it's in the storage bins or obviously
never inside I store 2030 feet in my bumper and I've got another 10 foot of
hose that I have a special contractor bag for alright so we've got our
complete walkthrough and the inside the truck is attached in the fifth wheel I
have not started to pull in my awnings yet or my pop outs I'm just gonna go
ahead and do a one more walk through that ladder will be the last thing I do
pulls up into the door and then that bar right there will go across
make sure there's nothing impeding my popouts I've already gotten a ladder
made sure there's nothing under the awnings I'm detached completely from my
power I'm detached from my sewer waste lines and this rig is ready to go so the
first thing that I'm gonna do is lower this completely on my rig and detach all
of my auto Levellers all right guys so I've gone into the RV clean out the
inside maids everything to make sure everything's secure walked around the
inside made sure everything's okay for all of my pull ups to pull back in
nothing that's going to get in the way of those I detach from the electric from
the water from the cable in the park and I'm ready to close it up
alright guys that's pretty much it that's how I take my how I do it
everybody does a little differently each time that I do it I learn a little bit
more about my RV and the best way most efficiently safe way to close it up
clean it up and get ready to move the last thing that I do is close these
stairs lock the door and put a bar in front of it so that there's no way it
could possibly come open when I'm driving and then one more quick
walkthrough before I go make sure that I've gotten all my tire chocks on my
Levellers and that we haven't left anything behind alright guys so I hope
you enjoyed that video how I prepare my rig to move and if you'd like to see the
other portion of this series which is Mercedes talking about what she does on
the inside of the unit getting it prepared to move you can you'll see a
little card in the top right hand corner just click that and it will bring you
right to the video a Mercedes goes over everything that she did in the inside of
our RV before we moved it so please subscribe yep click the little bell
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do yeah when you're gonna move your rig so hope you enjoyed it we'll talk to you
soon thank you yeah