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wounded horse wrote:Doesn't Bill live there?

New Hampshire I believe. NH is close, both physically and with its firearms laws. You can walk into a Walmart, buy a piece and strap it to your belt. However, if you want to conceal or carry it in your car, a license is required. For years, NH has tried to institute legislation to match the firearms laws of its neighbor, VT.

wounded horse wrote:The way a society is managed can't be right when you can go into a shop with all the relevant paperwork and buy a gun. It just has WRONG written all over it.

I agree 100%. They should just get rid of the paperwork.

How this thread went from gear in a trailer to guns and shooting people is shamefull. I vote to close it.

CoronaOperator wrote:How this thread went from gear in a trailer to guns and shooting people is shamefull. I vote to close it.

Oh, lighten up.

Protection of personal property is held near and dear in this country. There are those who want to take your stuff - we are just discussing options to keep that from happening......while it's in your trailer (see, still on point).

Bruce Weldy wrote:

CoronaOperator wrote:How this thread went from gear in a trailer to guns and shooting people is shamefull. I vote to close it.

Oh, lighten up.

Protection of personal property is held near and dear in this country. There are those who want to take your stuff - we are just discussing options to keep that from happening......while it's in your trailer (see, still on point).

+1

For better or for worse, it is at least a top 5 campaign issue for every candidate for public office. Our right to keep and bear arms is, after all, guaranteed in the 2nd Amendment to the Constitution and is hotly debated on a regular basis. There are groups trying to severely restrict and groups opposed to any and all restrictions. In some (many?) cases, where you sit on this issue can strongly influence who you vote for.

So back off the hijack

I keep all my gear except laptops in a 1975 Dodge rape van. Haven't had an issue yet. Just give the gear some time to warm up, maybe a half hour or so, then ease into it. Stuff will warm up quick enough. If there was an issue with temps they would ship all this gear in climate controlled semi trailers.

Cold will kill batteries, in your climate I doubt it gets hot enough for long enough to be any real danger.

+1 to not advertising on the trailer. If the ads will book you enough to buy one of these then go for it>>>>
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I can tell you this - Canada since around the 1930's has required licensing for all handguns, and a license holder is very restricted as to where they can store, transport and utilize handguns. They also recently tried to implement a registry for long arms, but it was an absolute failure that cost taxpayers over a billion dollars and was subsequently scrapped.

Unfortunately criminals don't register their handguns that are smuggled into Canada, and it is against the law for a a law abiding citizen to protect their property and self. The criminals have more rights than an upstanding citizen. The governments edict is to have citizens under duress or gunpoint dial 911; Hopefully the criminals are accommodating in this event.

Because of these laws, in conjunction with a liberal minded, namby pamby justice system, criminals have free reign to do whatever they please. The crime rate has skyrocketed; pretty much every morning there are shootings and stabbings reported on the radio. In 2011 Edmonton's homicide stats were 4.2 per 100,000 people, and it's likely only to get worse until citizens are allowed to protect themselves to some degree. New York City by comparison was only 6.4 per 100,000 in 2010.

That being said, if a thief is considering stealing a trailer full of sound gear, and there is a potential danger of him being shot while doing so, that seems to be a better deterrent than a sign indicating "All thefts will be reported to the police".

Oh, I forgot to mention, my gear is stored in a shop that is heated to just above freezing in the winter. Sometimes the gear will sit overnight in the truck before a show, with an outside temperature of -30C.

In 25 years, I haven't experienced any sort of cold related failures or problems. I always ensure that any condensation is dry before powering up the gear. Usually loading dock areas are the best place to warm the gear up as they are heated somewhat above normal room temperatures in the winter, and have lots of air movement.

I was wondering how this jumped up to three pages so quickly.

How do you all feel about abortion?

JUST KIDDING!!

Thanks for the replies everyone. I think I will end up with a trailer next spring.

When I was a partner in the touring company, we had a whole hodge podge of different size cases and trunks, packing a truck was a 3D jigsaw puzzle.

When I built my speakers, road cases, equipment racks, cable trunks, etc. I tried to standardize everything at 30 inches wide. It makes for a nice, tight pack in the truck or trailer, provided you have a 5 foot wide trailer or truck bed. It also will pass through just about any doorway. The only exception to the 30" dimension is my mixing board road case and the mic stand trunk which needed to be 48 inches long to accommodate tripod boom stands. I'll take some pictures of my racks and post them later.

Just something to consider.

I took some photos today of the gear to depict how it packs together:

And the pack:

Looks nice!

Nicely packaged!

Thanks for the comments. I didn't mean to hijack this thread; my intention was to offer ideas for planning out gear building for a tight pack in a truck or trailer. I'm still trying to decide what direction I'll go for wedges. You can be sure that it'll fit with my 30" wide format.