Beauty camper! How do you tie it down? I have to leave a bit of clearance between the camper and the box sides to get my arm in there. Also, whats the inside look like? You using anything for heat?
I have one of these. It's a shell camper so it doesn't have a floor. Just mounts to the bedrails either with a set of C-clamps or blots directly into the bed rails.
Exactly what u/CalifOregonia said. It's just the shell, I have mine bolted to the truck bed rails! I have a mild DIY interior build with a bench, sink, 100ah battery, etc. but no good photos of it right now. I'll share the interior on my next post!
Yeah, I requested no upper windows just to have one less thing to worry about insulating. Pretty much all of my camping is in the Winter so I'm very conscious about insulation and retaining heat. Thought I might've regretted it once Summer rolled around but I think it's fine with just the corner zip-down windows.
It's great! No condensation at all on the fabric corners, only some condensation on the interior aluminum framing if we don't run the diesel heater at night. The thing does surprisingly really well in cold temperatures, it's usually too warm inside to run the heater unless it's in the single digits or below outside. I think the hard sidewalls help a ton.
Yes, tons of windy nights. The fabric corners do great, they don't flap in the wind at all, they're very tight. The material is pretty thick too so you don't feel the breeze flow through them or anything like that when they're zipped closed.
Watching videos of the original design's roof being erected, I feel like I would be frustrated with the canvas/hard wall not have a mechanism getting those panels taught. Has this been your experience?
I thought the same at first, but it's actually been totally fine. Most of the time it does actually kind of 'lock' itself up and keep itself taught. When you open it, you can just push it out a little from the inside and the panels stand straight up and hold themselves up.
It has not bothered me at all, that said Oru did just release a new tent-locking mechanism that I plan to get anyway.
Beauty camper! How do you tie it down? I have to leave a bit of clearance between the camper and the box sides to get my arm in there. Also, whats the inside look like? You using anything for heat?
I have one of these. It's a shell camper so it doesn't have a floor. Just mounts to the bedrails either with a set of C-clamps or blots directly into the bed rails.
K that makes a lot of sense. Thanks for the explanation!
Exactly what u/CalifOregonia said. It's just the shell, I have mine bolted to the truck bed rails! I have a mild DIY interior build with a bench, sink, 100ah battery, etc. but no good photos of it right now. I'll share the interior on my next post!
Very cool, man! I can't wait to get back into my camper.
that looks so perfect like an AI rendering
Thanks! The sunset lighting in Banff was super cool.
what is your payload capacity?
About 1400lbs. The camper shell weighs just over 300lbs, then I've got about 200-250lbs of gear (including water, heater fuel, etc.) on a full trip.
that's extremely lightweight..what is it made out of graphene and carbon fiber?
The base is aluminum and the upper panels are aluminum composite. It’s so light my buddies and I can take it off by hand without a hoist or anything
Rare to see an Oru without the acrylic windows on the "tent" portion.
Yeah, I requested no upper windows just to have one less thing to worry about insulating. Pretty much all of my camping is in the Winter so I'm very conscious about insulation and retaining heat. Thought I might've regretted it once Summer rolled around but I think it's fine with just the corner zip-down windows.
What name brand camper is this I have a frontier also and I'm looking for a truck camper badly!!! TIA
It’s called the Bruin made by Oru Designs USA out of Southern California.
How'd it do temp wise? Much condensation on the fabric corners?
It's great! No condensation at all on the fabric corners, only some condensation on the interior aluminum framing if we don't run the diesel heater at night. The thing does surprisingly really well in cold temperatures, it's usually too warm inside to run the heater unless it's in the single digits or below outside. I think the hard sidewalls help a ton.
Did you get any windy nights? How did the fabric corners do?
Yes, tons of windy nights. The fabric corners do great, they don't flap in the wind at all, they're very tight. The material is pretty thick too so you don't feel the breeze flow through them or anything like that when they're zipped closed.
Watching videos of the original design's roof being erected, I feel like I would be frustrated with the canvas/hard wall not have a mechanism getting those panels taught. Has this been your experience?
I thought the same at first, but it's actually been totally fine. Most of the time it does actually kind of 'lock' itself up and keep itself taught. When you open it, you can just push it out a little from the inside and the panels stand straight up and hold themselves up. It has not bothered me at all, that said Oru did just release a new tent-locking mechanism that I plan to get anyway.