packing up a camper

Scoof,

Short answer is yes, but can be a struggle. I can manage it no problems, but my wife found it a bit more difficult. The difficulty comes in holding the floor in position while you scoot around and stuff the canvas in. Try fitting a bit of strong cord to the floor with loops at various distances along the length. Hook these loops over one of the front latches to hold the floor at the right angle as you go around to shove the canvas in. Worked well for me. The other fun part is when it is well loaded and you need to jump on top to squash it all down and do the latches up at the same time.

As I said, I found it easy enough, but height, strength and weight are an advantage.

Cheers,

Matt.

We used a simialr sytem to Matt with our hard floor Aussie camper. A strap with a few eyelets to a hook on the front of the trailer moving don one at a time as you fold canvas in. Becomes easier with practice.

Can be done happily - just takes more time - know some people with a KK that have do it, when necessary. The trick is to have a means of stopping the floor from going back down when you want to stop part way up in the close cycle - as mentioned, various simple cord setups can do this ....... my method on my Campomatic (much the same as the KK) is displayed on my site..........the Campo page at ..... users.picknowl.com.au/~darian/
Note that pulling on the rope hard is not the go - that may bow the canvas supports - I lift the floor from right at the back and just take up the slack in the rope as I go (or pull the canvas forward - whatever is best at the time.

I have seen people with a hand (and electric too) boat winch on the front of the trailer - they just hook it over to the back and pull the lot over - worked for them.

Aussie Swag in QLD may have a power closer as an option for theirs - saw one in use outback at one stage.

Hi mate,

I have a old model Kimberly Kamper and can pack up/set up by myself but it can be difficult. I haven't used the loop method as mentioned above as I can do it without this (does sound good though) but the hard part is controlling the floor coming down when folding in the canvas.

Cheers mate

g'day scoof, i usually travel alone and now have a kimberley, when packing it up i hold the floor/lid up a bit with a broom handle while i tuck the canvas in. it works pretty easy for me.
cheers sparra.