Does anyone use it regularly? Use it at all? I did see a reference to protection for solar panels.
Not an immediate project, but I plan to fill holes on the roof. Satellite antenna we don't use, TV antenna we don't use. Screws for wire hold-downs, screws for no-longer there vent covers, CB antenna, and the roof rack... I counted 111 holes that I could permanently fill and paint, and eliminate potential water leaks.
In MY opinion (everbody got one), it is of no use. I will remove ours if we ever have our roof coated at FOT or MOT (a ways down on our To-Do list). Until then, it remains in place and is ignored.
Thanks! I have seen stuff tied up there, but not on FTs. It is usually those ancient gassers with corrugated metal scraps over a window, and a look of being broken in the middle. I feel daring climbing the ladder with a caulk gun. I can't imagine climbing up with a steamer trunk!
I have heard of members securing a mounted spare tire up there on the Motorcade Club Alaska trip.
I always have visions of them rolling the tire/wheel off the roof, and watching it bounce down the road for half a mile before it stops in the bar ditch.
Spouse 1 rolls the mounted tire off the roof to spouse 2 and yells "catch!"
Ya, you have to hire Craneman to come and get the spare tire up in the roof. I helped friends put solar panels on their roof. They had the luggage rack. It seemed to all of us a significant trip hazard getting on and off the roof.
Absolute waste of aluminum IMO.
The aluminum should have been used to make something worthwhile.
BEER CANS!
Redundancy yet again. Foretravel's have more storage inside than most others AND a roof rack.
Me? I like the look. Also, when the wind is blowing hard enough and in just the right direction, we get that lovely bassoon sound!
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Being a little more adventurous you may find a use for it. Traveling down the Baja for the winter I never could have enough storage space.
We left ours at Xtreme last month.
Glad to be rid of the tripping hazard.
When driving deep into Mexico, we always kept an unmounted spare tire up there-- with a Sunbrella cover over it.
So last year we went to Buffalo Bill state park in Wyoming. I had a 12' wind surf board on top, along with the mast and sails. The problem is trying to tie something down when the tie down points are almost 8 feet apart. I would like to utilize that space more, I have no clue why other than "because it's there". I plan on removing the aluminum rail and replace with steel and adding one (or maybe two) more rail down the center so I can tie smaller/narrower things down. I also would like to put a small swing up/out arm or davit for hoisting large and not so heavy items on board. Call me crazy, call me foolish just don't call me late for dinner.
Everyone is different..The 280 I had, had a storage bin on top that I suppose the po used.. I haul enough "stuff" that I could use more outside storage but I'm not sure enough of my one arm ladder climbing to carry anything to the top that weighs much or is very large..
I polish mine every time I do the wheels. With the chrome basement latches, polished wheels and mirrors, chrome Hadleys, chrome spotlight and polished roof rack gives the coach just a touch of bling and sparkle. IMHO a lot of he coaches nowdays while they have beautiful paint jobs are a little drab. Hate to think how much I spent in the old days at the chrome shop.