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RV'ing With a BGE

Greenhorn Green Egger
Greenhorn Green Egger Posts: 49
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Thinking of buying a mini-max to take with us in our RV. Does anyone here RV with an Egg and if so, how do you secure it while traveling? I'm thinking of lining a box with pieces cut from a memory foam mattress topper. Thanks! 
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  • pgprescott
    pgprescott Posts: 14,544
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    I don’t RV, but the import thing is to keep the firebox and fire ring from moving around inside the egg. I suggest simply cutting or buying some small hardwood shims and wedging them between the firebox and fire ring and the interior edge of the egg itself. That’s all it should take. Then if you’d like to make some sorta cushion for it to sit on, fine.  You might ask the dealer you buy it from for one in a box and then you’d have all the packing. They’re not as fragile as one might think. 
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  • pgprescott
    pgprescott Posts: 14,544
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    p.s. I have taken a MM for 4+ hour rides in the back of my truck for tailgating. I had no problem and I’m not sure I even wedged the firebox each time. 
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  • GlennM
    GlennM Posts: 1,445
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    You could also get an acorn jr, they are inexpensive and metal. I have one at our place in Florida and it works fine. 
    In the bush just East of Cambridge,Ontario 
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  • Langner91
    Langner91 Posts: 2,120
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    I would suggest a "Kick Ash Basket", also.  Then, when you are done grilling, you could get the coals out of the grill and get the thing cooling down.  They stay hot / warm for a few hours after cooking.  But, if you can get the coals out, it will cool down much faster.

    Sounds like fun!  
    Clinton, Iowa
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  • Mickey
    Mickey Posts: 19,768
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    I have moved Eggs back and forth Texas/Florida (800 miles) for 20 years. All in the back of a Tacoma or Tundra. All sizes by just pulling the inside ceramic and slipping in cardboard then putting back ceramic. Place cardboard between top and bottom as well. 
    That all ended last month when we bought a house and just moved a Large & Mini for the last time. 
    Salado TX & 30A  FL: Egg Family: 3 Large and a very well used Mini, added a Mini Max when they came out (I'm good for now). Just given a Mini to add to the herd. 

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  • Mickey
    Mickey Posts: 19,768
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    We back up to Topsail State Park in Florida and walk thru the RV park most evenings. Have not seen an Egg yet. 1600 acres and 3 miles of beach i high recommended this place you you need a stop. https://www.floridastateparks.org/parks-and-trails/topsail-hill-preserve-state-park
    Salado TX & 30A  FL: Egg Family: 3 Large and a very well used Mini, added a Mini Max when they came out (I'm good for now). Just given a Mini to add to the herd. 

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  • Carolina Q
    Carolina Q Posts: 14,831
    edited December 2020 Answer ✓
    Careful, my friend...

    "In 1997 an Iowa couple died from breathing carbon monoxide from a charcoal grill...The couple was camping with friends. After grilling hamburgers on a table-top grill, they placed the lid on the grill to extinguish the coals. They visited with their friends until about 10 p.m., then placed the grill in a storage area underneath their camper, watched the news and went to bed. The coals re-kindled and the carbon monoxide from the grill penetrated the floor of the camper, killing the couple."  

    https://www.extension.iastate.edu/pages/communications/CO/grill.html
    Edit, looks like the link no longer works, but you get the idea.

    Oh, and another vote for the Akorn Jr. Performs like an egg, but will just dent, not break, if dropped.

    I hate it when I go to the kitchen for food and all I find are ingredients!                                                                                                                                                                                                                           

    Michael 
    Central Connecticut 

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  • Marcusp
    Marcusp Posts: 16
    I have carried a Minimax in my storage area of my motorhome since they were released. I carried a small before that. I don’t tie it down it just sets in the lower compartment between a vertical strut.
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  • shtgunal3
    shtgunal3 Posts: 6,134
    Mickey said:
    We back up to Topsail State Park in Florida and walk thru the RV park most evenings. Have not seen an Egg yet. 1600 acres and 3 miles of beach i high recommended this place you you need a stop. https://www.floridastateparks.org/parks-and-trails/topsail-hill-preserve-state-park
    Thanks for posting @Mickey  . We are looking for a nice RV park on the beach for early spring. We will definitely consider this one. It looks nice with lots to do.

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     LBGE,SBGE, and a Mini makes three......Sweet home Alabama........ Stay thirsty my friends .

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  • Mickey
    Mickey Posts: 19,768
    shtgunal3 said:
    Mickey said:
    We back up to Topsail State Park in Florida and walk thru the RV park most evenings. Have not seen an Egg yet. 1600 acres and 3 miles of beach i high recommended this place you you need a stop. https://www.floridastateparks.org/parks-and-trails/topsail-hill-preserve-state-park
    Thanks for posting @Mickey  . We are looking for a nice RV park on the beach for early spring. We will definitely consider this one. It looks nice with lots to do.
    Make the reservation today. Send me a note when you are there. The back yard of the house across the street butts up to the park. Very close. 
    Salado TX & 30A  FL: Egg Family: 3 Large and a very well used Mini, added a Mini Max when they came out (I'm good for now). Just given a Mini to add to the herd. 

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  • 6baluts
    6baluts Posts: 302
    I have lugged a medium or a small snowbirding (not this year though) from here in Va Beach to S. Florida in a pass thru bay in our motorhome. No issues at all.
    Additionally one year a motorhomer from Chesapeake Va driving a Winnebago Journey had a MBGE mounted to his bumper btwn the motorhome and his TOAD.
    Lastly I seen a guy with a Newell ($$$$$$) with a LBGE mounted on a gimble with an extendable arm that he just pulled up his bay door in front of the tag axle and pulled out the BGE.
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  • Mattman3969
    Mattman3969 Posts: 10,458
    I started out using would shims to separate all the ceramics. I’ve now gone to using a mix of cardboard on the horizontal joints and shims on the verticals 


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    analyze adapt overcome

    2008 -Large BGE. 2013- Small BGE and 2015 - Mini. Henderson, Ky.
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  • alaskanassasin
    alaskanassasin Posts: 8,920
    6baluts said:
    I have lugged a medium or a small snowbirding (not this year though) from here in Va Beach to S. Florida in a pass thru bay in our motorhome. No issues at all.
    Additionally one year a motorhomer from Chesapeake Va driving a Winnebago Journey had a MBGE mounted to his bumper btwn the motorhome and his TOAD.
    Lastly I seen a guy with a Newell ($$$$$$) with a LBGE mounted on a gimble with an extendable arm that he just pulled up his bay door in front of the tag axle and pulled out the BGE.

     Holy CHIT! I was thinking ($$$$$$)... how expensive can they be? $1.8 Million for a RV!? Stay calm, you can get into a 2016 model for $1.4 that is only $100,000 a year in depreciation.

    If you invested $1800000 in the S&P 500 at the beginning of 2016, you would have about $3,565,229.30 at the beginning of 2020, assuming you reinvested all dividends.

    South of Columbus, Ohio.


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  • 6baluts
    6baluts Posts: 302
    edited December 2020
    @alaskanassasin That Newell was parked 4 spots away from me. Freaking impressive. All the plumbing in it is copper, house hold appliance etc. Paint job on that thing was incredible. Everthing about that motorhome could be controlled by an iPad. The genny on that thing was 30KW. Couple that owned it were the most down to earth people I ever met.

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