Hawk+ Flatbed Truck Camper by Four Wheel Campers

Earlier this 12 months, Kait and I took supply of our second flatbed truck camper construct, the Hawk+ by 4 Wheel Campers. On this submit I’ll share an in depth construct listing of our light-weight pop-up truck camper and the modifications we’ve made to this point.

Hawk+ Flatbed Truck Camper by 4 Wheel Campers

Let’s begin off with the fundamentals of our 4 Wheel Campers Hawk+ Flatbed by answering a number of the hottest questions we get.

How a lot does the weigh? Our Hawk+ flatbed was delivered with a dry weight of two,130 lbs from the manufacturing facility with the choices we chosen. For a full listing of choices and options, take a look at the construct specs part beneath.

Is there a toilet in your 4 Wheel Camper? Sure, we constructed our Hawk+ flatbed to have an indoor cassette toilet, indoor bathe and an out of doors bathe.

Does your 4 Wheel Camper have air con? Sure, the 12v Nomadic AC unit is now an choice which we chosen for our camper.

Which truck do you have got? We mounted our Hawk+ flatbed camper on a 2000 Ford F350 Tremendous Responsibility. Try our 7.3 Powerstroke article for all of the specs and particulars of the truck.

Construct Specs: Hawk+ Flatbed Camper

After having owned and lived out of our first Hawk flatbed truck camper for 2 years, Kait and I knew precisely which choices we needed to pick out for this construct. On this part I’ll listing all of the choices we picked for our Hawk+ flatbed truck camper.

Hawk+ Flatbed Camper Choices:

• Mannequin: Hawk+_FB
• Siding Shade: Silver Frost Clean
• Cloth: Heritage Leaf
• Counter tops: Bamboo
• Cupboards: Black Oxide
• Flooring: Gray Ash
• Tank Capacities: 40 gallon recent water / 5 gallon gray
• Kitchen: Flush mount sink and range
• Twin 2.5 gallon propane tanks
• Pre-wired for Starlink
• Choices
  • Mechanical camper jacks
  • 2-Means 85L fridge/freezer
  • Truma pressured air furnace & prompt water heater w/inside and out of doors showers and built-in cassette bathroom
  • Roof mounted Nomadic 12v AC
  • 5 lithium batteries (810ah) with RedArc Supervisor Alpha75, Rogue with RedVision system and a couple of,000 watt inverter
  • 500 watts of roof mounted solar
  • 8′ Fiamma F45S handbook awning
  • Electrical roof help
  • Aspect steps
  • Aspect and Rear Flood Lights
  • LED exterior lighting package deal
  • Detachable carpet equipment
  • King mattress slide
  • Thermal Pack
  • Norweld Weekender Deluxe Tray aka flatbed (word: this is similar flatbed we bought for our first flatbed camper construct so the manufacturing facility set up group solely needed to mount the Hawk+ to our present Norweld tray)

Energy System

Our first Hawk flatbed camper was one of many first 4 Wheel Campers constructed with 300ah of lithium batteries, which was a should have requirement for us on the time.

As soon as once more our Hawk+ flatbed camper not solely has lithium batteries however probably the most they’ve ever put in a camper at 810ah coupled with the RedArc Supervisor Alpha75 and Rogue system.

The RedArc system controls the entire lights within the camper, together with the outside lights, together with the water pump and fridge fan. It’s going to additionally show recent and gray water tank ranges and might be accessed on our telephones utilizing bluetooth. The system additionally manages the entire energy coming in to cost the batteries in probably the most environment friendly means attainable. It’s going to additionally trick cost the truck’s batteries when the camper batteries attain 100% state of cost. If the truck batteries die, the RedArc has the power to cost them from the camper’s lithium batteries.

This method is greater than sufficient to energy our 12v AC for a full day (from what we’ve seen in testing to this point), my coffee gear, Kait’s multi-cooker, our laptops, sensible telephones, a two-way fridge and extra by means of a 2000 watt inverter. The five hundred watts of photo voltaic on the roof assist hold the batteries charged together with the power to cost from the truck’s alternator when driving. There may be additionally an exterior port the place we will plug in our twin portable solar panels.

Try our submit on portable solar panels vs rooftop solar panels.

Order and Set up Course of

Melanie Garrido was our gross sales contact at Four Wheel Campers. She managed the adjustments to our order kind and processed all of the paperwork. One factor we love about 4 Wheel Campers is the camper builder function on their web site. So in case you are fascinated about pricing out one in all their pop-up truck campers, simply go to fourwheelcampers.com and go to the construct and worth web page.

Since we already had the Norweld tray put in on our truck, it solely took the group a number of hours to put in the Hawk+ flatbed camper. After we acquired our first Hawk flatbed put in, it took the group 5 days to get the previous mattress eliminated and the brand new one put in together with putting in the camper.

Under is a video of us taking our truck to 4 Wheel Campers and the set up of the camper together with first impressions.

Aftermarket Modifications

Up to now we’ve solely made two modification to our camper. The primary is a customized mattress. We ordered ours from Mattress Insider to exchange the one which got here with our Hawk+ flatbed camper. Whereas the mattress from the manufacturing facility is snug, I’ve some shoulder issues so I wanted one thing totally different.

The second modification is a vent cover for the fan. That is one in all our essential camping accessories as a result of it permits us the run the vent fan whereas it’s raining outdoors with out worrying concerning the rain sensor closing the fan or water moving into the camper.

Try our list of essential gear for extra concepts.

Touring in a Hawk+ Flatbed Camper

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