yup! I get the references! LOL #80srock #80shairbands

I was finishing high school when those were on the airwaves. Sound track of my life that.

For sure!!! Got the Easter Eggs

They should've aired down! 😄

Looked like an old tractor to me.

😂🤣😂🤣🤙🤙Thats darn Funny!!!

😅😅😅

@@racebanning6390 I've come across a thing like that. Basically, a giant spoon that they used to scrape out the "tank" for water collection. They got the pond made and left the scoop there. Just recently, they repaired the cattle pond. It's big and beautiful with a 15 ft. tall berm. They used a Cat, the scoop is still resting in place. This is way up on the ridge, it's incredible how people worked so hard in 1950.

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Subtle?

Not so subtle.

Well played!!!

Thank you for the kind words!

Sure, but the gear helps you get there and/ or makes it a more comfortable journey. A 12v cooler is gear… absolute game changer… just an example of many.

Taken to its logical conclusion, a horse with a saddle on it at one time was a modern gadget with a toy on it.

Don’t listen to the other above me. You are correct in disregarding gadgets

People trying to justify their $500 action pants and $4000 rooftop tents...

yes, i have the same brand. it uses the famed dan foss compressor, though the company was bought out and now called something else. the more expensive fridge brands like arb and dometics use the same. iceco does have twitchy temperature control, but it costs halfway between the expensive brands and the cheap chinese brands. i recommend it as well. i also recommend putting some cushioning under the fridge feet, like pieces of foam insulation boards

I'm with you there. Love my ICECO fridge. I think I've had it since early 2021. The one I have is probably too big (VL60S) but it holds two weeks worth of food so maybe not. I can load up and disappear into the forest for a couple of weeks with no worries.

Bob Wells did a video about fridges. He determined it’s better to get the cheap ones and replace as needed.

@@betsyc5123 I agree with Bob. Paying $500-$800, much less $1200 for something that lasts MAYBE 50% longer now that the Chinese junk really isn't junk anymore, just isn't cost-effective. Even Danfoss/SECOP compressors crap out, and when they do, plunking down that sort of money more than once, might make someone cry. Worse yet is if the compressor is still fine, and the electronics die in in unrepairable way. I take a middle ground myself, by owning a 50 liter Vevor (clearly made by Alpicool) with the somewhat rare but findable LG compressor option. I paid $253 delivered, and I'll put it up against an Iceco any day. It's been running 24/7 for 3.5 years set on -4F, and runs like new despite 15K miles of road trips. Last month I drove it to pretty much dead center in Kofa NWR in Arizona on a pretty rough "road" until the offroading limits of my Prius Prime were reached in a wash. It was the first time I've had to shovel myself out of, 16 miles from pavement. Then I took it up a mining road in Nevada over an hour's drive from pavement, then left the mining road to go through some crazy terrain to get to where I camped. Then two days in a row, I left it running off a LiFePO4 battery inside a very hot car in NV desert hills, while I spent the days hiking. It's nice to return to a freezer full of frozen PowerAde bottles, water bottles, and Klondike bars. Plus a cooler bag of stuff refrigerated by having thrown frozen bottles into the bag. Even better was hiking with bottles defrosting in my backpack, so I could drink that lemon-lime icy slush on top of the destination hill when pretty tired from doing endless ups and downs to get there. Especially in November, you'll see $200+ 12V fridges dropping to $125 for a day or two. It pays to "save for later" in the Amazon cart, and check the cart for notices of price changes. Before buying anything at regular price on Amazon, also search eBay to see if the importer or a big dealer is selling hundreds of them cheaper there.

​@@betsyc5123What if you are in the middle of nowhere and your cheap refrigerator stops working? 🤷🏽‍♂️

It's called GAS in some areas. Gear Acquisition Syndrome. Some guys can actually make that clever stuff, then the rest just buy it- there''s so much money floating around these days.

Sounds lovely ❤

Ooooooh nooooooo, you're advocating that he sell his body for a status overlanding fridge. I'm not against a hard-working KZfaqr taking a freebie now and then, but taking a high-end one would be a clear step on a path to detaching from the reality that his viewers live in, of usually making purchasing decisions to maximize value. It's a slippery slope. If he takes an Iceco now, next he'll be having videos of the "$3000 power station of the week" variety. Then the "$1500 ebike of the month" club. Good KZfaqrs of all kinds end up shilling for all sorts of stuff to keep the goodies coming. Some make more from reselling their freebies, than from their channel revenue, Patreon, Amazon links, or anything else. Then the salt/sugar drink mixes will decide it's time to own his soul and give his viewers hypertension and diabetes in exchange for him raising their profits. Where will it end? Tristan is a wholesome guy, I'd hate to see him become a snake oil salesman. KZfaq has enough shills. It would be ironic if an "overlanding brand" like ARB sent an unsolicited fridge his way, maybe to try to get him to go along with the "overlanding gear is key" philosophy he disagrees with. If they do that, I'd hope he'd give it away to some struggling nomad on Social Security who just moved into their car, and spend his own $150 to $300 on a value-priced fridge that maybe in a couple of years will be still running like new, or maybe dying, but we'll learn something from it and help people figure out what's a wolf in sheep's clothing. Then he could get an update on the high-end fridge to see if it did any better. To me, for how hard he uses a fridge bouncing it around, often in dusty, dirty, hot places, getting 2 full years out of the Joy Tutus means it's not bad for its low, disposable-fridge price. Probably would have lasted the average person quite a bit longer.

Thanks 😊

It's 100% fine, it's just not what I want to watch, you know? Thanks for watching!

Completely agree

@@ricksantiago702 When rap came out, I actually liked a little. Funky Cold Medina. It was kind of cute. Then it went all chest stuck out. Tristan is already probably learning that expressing your views on things can get things going.

Untrue and unnecessary. He is fine sticking with how Toyota engineers and Chinese fridge engineers designed it to work. Cobbling an improvement with parts off Amazon has its own risks, the main one being that you are advocating that individuals start making engineering decisions about modifying their cars, when you don't know they have the skills to understand what they're designing, how to install it safely, and how it might confuse a future owner and get them into danger. Clearly you've never watched a power meter while starting or running one of these fridges, and clearly you don't understand that car wiring is protected by fuses, or that the wire gauge on a 12V socket circuit will never be the weak link "starving" a fridge motor plugged into the socket. Maybe the socket connection itself sucks badly enough to cause a problem, but in that case, changing the wiring even to the thickness of jumper cables or your house's service entrance will not help. There is not a lighter socket in the USA that isn't good for 10A, which is over 120W. Some are good for 15A. These fridges top out at 6A even in "Max Mode". In "Eco Mode" they draw 3A. The alleged power surge you're imagining on these 12V compressor fridge motors, is not really a thing. They are computer controlled. What I've observed, is that they seem to start up in eco mode with a low draw,, even when set to max mode. It goes from 1W for the electronics, to 30W, then maybe 40W. Then they run for a few seconds to a minute at that low power, before ramping up the power up to 60W or 70W if in max mode and they feel like it. Sometimes the computer decides 35W is enough to hold the temp, so it doesn't even bother going to 60W. Probably different brands use different algorithms and control methods, but there is no way they get near the limit of the 12V socket. They know there are probably phones plugged into a charger on a Y splitter, too. Engineers aren't stupid. FUSES PROTECT WIRES. Toyota puts the right fuse on each circuit, including to the 12V lighter socket. There is NOTHING to worry about. If you hook up something that draws too much power for the lighter circuit, it blows the lighter circuit fuse. If someone has replaced the 10A fuse with a 50A fuse or a paper clip and then burns up their car, well the world would have one less stupid person, as Darwin intended. Tristan isn't stupid. What I will say in your defense, it that the lighter socket connection itself is a terribly engineered connection. Using something like XT60 connectors is a huge improvement. But replacing the car wiring when you get rid of the socket, is not necessary. And if/when you do run separate hard wiring (thicker or not) you need to really know what you're doing or you create a fire hazard that could burn up your car. You need to fuse the new wiring properly at the battery, and you need to properly protect the new wire run, especially anywhere it passes through sheet metal such as the firewall. For the average non-handy person, they are better off using the Toyota wiring in their Toyota,, until they need more power than that circuit provides. His 12V fridge is way within the power limit of the circuit. Most people run their fridge off a separate LiFePO4 battery, so as not to drain the car battery. Then the only draw on the car wiring (via 12V socket or otherwise) is whatever is used to charge the LiFePO4 while you have the car running. Often they use solar for that, though using the 12V socket is perfectly fine. If you plug in too big a charger, that is what fuses are there to deal with.

Not sure what that says about me and how much I love this channel 😂 but I believe that might be what he has in the RAV4.

I, too, have anAlpicool….3 years now, running pretty much continuously…..does a great job. Somuch cheaper than Dometic….wellworth the money

@@teslah2997 I have a Vevor which was clearly made by Alipcool. Running 24/7 for over 3 years, it is like new still. 15K miles in the car, some of it rough stuff like Tristan does. I paid extra to get the version with the LG compressor rather than Chinese compressor.

That song was written around 1880. A different 80s genre. lol 😂

And different Red River. That song is about the Red River between Texas and Oklahoma.

@@timaugustine3856 Right, the one featured in the Howard Hawks/John Wayne movie of the same name. A classic film.

@@timaugustine3856 thanks for the info👍

The song entered my head too😊

But then I was thinking, might as well jump!

Who knew earthships all come with pickup trucks.

You missed "Sunglasses At Night"

Good luck, Edna! I just got on the road myself but my adventures are not as riveting as Tristan’s. I am in Colorado rn so maybe I’ll run into him!

The Dometic in my van lasted about six years. The replacement model had different dimensions and I had to get an adapter so it would fit!

Buy once cry once

Are you a gal who buys $400 yetis? You seem like you might. Expensive doesn’t equal quality (or the amount of quality improved is very little or not at all per extra dollar spent). There’s quality and then there’s just too darn expensive just because some silly rich people will buy it for the status. Finding the quality product and not being a rich moroon buying the status symbol is the goal.

​@@forester057Sorry to intrude on your conversation, but you're bashing someone who didn't mention spending outrageous amounts of money to buy quality. No need for bashing in the comments please.

​@forester057 not once did she mention the word expensive or even imply it...seems you were on a mission to insult someone....do better