Sleeping in a double cab

I sure will. I'm moving out of state so I'll have a ton of good pictures this winter

 

ex Archy, former diver here at 5'9" (ok I lied). slept in the back so many times. no problem except space herpes and neck cricks. was she worth it? sometimes if you put her on the steer ing wheel and THEN drop her off, it is easier to sleep back there. like a G 6. this does not apply to big bend during high summer. need an Expo rig in that case. my friend says.

 

You lost me

 

Great, now I have to worry about these space herpes on my steering wheel!. Wait.....huh?

 

This.

I'm just shy of 6' (okay okay, I'm 5'11") and I just push the passenger seat all the way back and recline it all the way down in my xcab. It gets flat enough...try to park on a slight incline and you'll be even more level.

It's not the most comfortable, but it's better than sleeping in an open bed in a parking lot...

 

I'm 6'1 210, take my word for it, sleeping more than 1 or 2 nights that way is going to make life miserable. I have spent many nights camped out in the duck lines with my brother, and more than that waiting for dogs to come in from chasing bears. Trapperr sounds like a younger guy and he maybe able to do 4-5 nights sleeping in a passenger seat, but there are better ways of going about it.

I have 1 question, is this like a just-in-case/here-and-there thing, or do you plan on spending more than 2 nights in a row sleeping in it?

 

I have such fond memories of 16 hour days looking for bear dogs or waiting half the night for them come to a road.

I'm 33, 6'1" and 155. During the winter months I'll be trapping hours and hours from home. I could drive 30-60 minutes to town each day and spend money I shouldn't or I could tough it out. I'd make camp for a few days but I need to be mobile.

I'm pursuing fur trapping as a full time winter occupation so cost need to be kept down and reliability and efficiency need to be the focus, hence me owning a Tacoma.

Now I'm exploring an mobile tent option with canvas sides. One end will mount directly to the back side of my Tacoma (I have a shell). Closes thing I've seen are SUV tents. I want to make one from canvas instead of nylon or other synthetic material. I like the durability of heavy canvas and the option to wax, which I will since I'll be in the snow.

 

Me too

The tent thing may not be a bad idea. Build a sleep pad and get a rack for the top of the shell.

 

In the frugal diy thread there is a member who rigged a hammock off his bumpers. Maybe a way to modify his set up with a low temp bag.

 

Only thing I think would help would be a tarp and very warm sleeping bag.

 

More to it than that. But that's a start.

 

Tying a hammock to a bumper and a tree?

 

Sleeping in single digit temps is more than a tarp and sleeping bag. *

 

I agree, it's a terrible idea. That seems like a good way to freeze to death.

 

http://scoutingmagazine.org/2002/01/outdoor-smarts-how-to-keep-warm-in-campings-fourth-season-2/

 

Few things in there I disagree with, and there is Zero information regarding insulation from the ground.

To be honest that article is pretty troubling.

 

6' 2" here and ive slept in passenger seat of my ext cab. Surprisingly didnt find it that bad.

Anyways... the seats and center console in these trucks can be removed in under 5 mins (unless you have a bench) with a simple ratchet and phillips.



with that out you can place a couple pieces of plywood or whatever ontop of a platform in place of each seat high enough to clear and make the entirety of cab a sleeping platform.

Not sure how that sounds to you guys but it looks good in my head ahaha.

 

Don't underestimate the warmth and comfort of a good hammock. You have to get a quality under quilt, and using a tarp effectively cuts the wind. But I've spent several nights hovering near Zero F and was warm and toasty. On e you get used to hammock camping, it's REALLY hard to go back to anything else.

But, a quality setup can be expensive. Checkout hammockforums, lots of good info on putting together a setup. I'm working out plans to hang two hammocks from my Tacoma, and then put my wife and youngest in the bed of the truck under a motorized bed cover with mosquito net. Hammocks are AWESOME! Best sleep I've ever had.

 

https://www.tacomaworld.com/index.php?posts/9424398

Not my image, one copied from the thread I linked.

 

I'll admit I didn't read the entire article, saw it was a scouting site and linked it. Yes insulation is a must, but I use insulation any time I go camping.