Traveling with Large BGE

Kinger · September 2005

Do any of you travel with your Large Egg? We are taking a long weekend to Smith Mtn lake in VA and I want to take my egg. A smaller size egg is not in the budget right now. The wife thinks I am nuts for trying to take it. I already know that I am nuts so does this make her right? I would appreciate any travel tips that you folks might have.

ccrider.disabled · September 2005

JNK, Try this link.[p]http://www.biggreenegg.com/archives/2003/messages/105095.htm

Bordello · September 2005

IJNK,
While the large egg may be heavy to move that would not stop me as long as it's not every weekend.
I have traveled with three eggs when I moved from Arizona to California, I have a small ranger pick up with a tool box across the bed. I just put the large and medium egg hinge against the tool box and tied them in. Almost eight hundred miles and they were fine.
Note:
Next time I would put just a bit of padding around the internal parts as the truck does bounce and they do hit each other. I don't think it will take much to protect them. Now about you being nuts, YES, you're an Egg-er and have lots of company. LOL
My Miss Mini sat in the cab on the passenger seat strapped in with the seat belt.[p]Cheers,
New Bob[p]

usa doug · September 2005

New Bob,
Where did your wife sit?[p]Doug

The Virginian · September 2005

JNK,
I travel to competitions with them all the time. I have a Plymouth Voyager. I take the middle seat out, place a large egg behind one of the font seats, and the secure it to the seat using one of those adjustible straps (the kind with ratchets on them to tighten them up). I forget exactly what they are called, but they work. [p]My teammate mad max just puts one in the well of his station wagon with a blanket or two. [p]You will need two adults to get the Egg in and out of the car. Do not try it yourself unless you are a 25 year old lineman. [p]Brett

drbbq · September 2005

usa doug,[p]She had to wait for the second trip.

Bordello · September 2005

usa doug,
What's a Wife?????
I haven't had one of those for almost thirty years. [p]Cheers,
New Bob
aka
Bordello Bob

Grillicious · September 2005

ccrider, I made Grillmeister's to carry mine home when I first got it. It cost all of $12 to make. I am currently using it to hold the lid while I clean off the old gasket.

Bobby-Q · September 2005

JNK,
Y'all will think I'm nuts and reckless, which is what I thought when I first heard my friend mention it, but I now carry my Eggs to competitions in their nests in the back of a pick up truck.[p]My team mate bought one of those truck bed elevators for $200 before this last competition. We discussed it several times amongst ourselves and talked to other knowledgeable people about it (all of whom said don't do it we were crazy btw) and decided to take a chance. We loaded both the larges in their nests into the front corners of the truck. We looped some heavy duty cord around each chimney and tied that off to the cab side rail. We looped a ratcheting tie down around each egg top and through the handle and then pulled those tight to floor tie downs. We moved the XL in the middle of those and did the same thing to it. We then clamped all of the nests together.[p]This set up did not even budge AT ALL. We even had to go over a homemade confidence course to get out of the Cusetta set up area. There were massive pot holes and the road dipped off to one side and then the other. I was bouncing all over the place inside my Suburban and figured if this didn't dump the Eggs nothign would. They rode it out fine. Even on the way home when a local transportation short bus slammed on the breaks in front of us on the interstate when we had to see how fast we could go from 75 to 0 they were just fine.[p]I don't think we'll move them any other way from now on.[p]OK DISCLAIMER time. The only reason we transport them like this is that we have that elevator and don't need to take them out of the nests to move them into the vehicle. Before we had the elevator we pulled them out of their nests and slid them into the same postions in the truck without the nests and strapped them down. I was also fully prepared to replace any egg that might have taken a dip if need be. [p]So if you're just moving one once in a while take it out of the nest. If you're moving multiple ones multiple times, break down and get a trailer, if you're cheap and reckless like me, then pleae feel free to follow the above procedures. lol[p]I'll try and find the card where I have the pictures of this set up in case anyone is in the same boat with an elevator.

fishlessman · September 2005

Bobby-Q,
thats good to know, i dont have a nest but have been thinking of making a nest type thing with large carry handles for the large. do you do anything to the inside parts to keep them from bouncing and do you think tying the setup to the tailgate side of the bed would be ok or would it be too bouncy. my truck has a convertible that wouldnt allow the egg to be up front with the top down

Bobby-Q · September 2005

fishlessman,
I actually travelled this time with everything inside including the plate setters and lump.[p]Everything came out just fine. When I got home I dropped a plate setter off my 12 foot high deck and it stuck feet first in the grass. I lost a leg from that. So I guess they were safer in the truck than they were in my hands..lol.

mike · September 2005

JNK,
I have an SUV with a 2" trailer ball. I was thinking about getting a cargo carrier that extends from the hitch and somehow attaching sides on hinges. The hinges, if designed right, could act as side tables. Then, just figure out how to secure the egg inside and away you go. You should be able to transport it, even hot...not while cooking , but while hot as in after cooking.
Anyone done this?
Thanks

Unknown · September 2005

Mike,[p]I have a couple of cargo carriers that I use for transporting and also for contests, camping, tailgating, and some other cooking away from home events. I use three brands of cookers with these cargo carriers including the Eggs and they work good for my events.[p][p]I have two cookers inside these garbage cans and not shown in the picture is a small cooler that goes between the cans. The problem with this setup is that you can't get the backdoor in the SUV opened unless you unload the cookers. I have not tried to cook on this carrier but I think you could.[p][p]This is the ultimate cargo carrier setup in my opinion. I don't have a picture with my Eggs but this should give you an idea of what can be done. Two large Eggs will fit on this swing out carrier. I have used this all year at contests and it has worked very well. I just leave the cooker in the swung out position and cook on it so I don't have to unload the heavy cooker. Another nice feature is that you can get the back door opened in the SUV and use the back as a table. This is nice when you get to an event. The down side to this carrier is that it is pricey as hell. [p]Hope this helps,[p]Dave

mike · September 2005

Old Dave,
Thanks for the response.
The "swing out" idea is great. I just got back from the trailer store and am going to figure out how to mount wheels on a cargo rack so that I can raise and lower the wheels so there is literally no lifting the egg. Also, with the wheels, I can move the egg away from the SUV door and just roll'er right onto my back porch.
I don't think this will happen anytime soon...my new company car won't arrive until January, so I'll post pics when I get'er done.

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