Yes
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I hope you can sort it out as you need to keep camping!
More info on the pop top setup might prompt some real suggestions....and we've been playing around with the idea of those lifters as well.
We now have the van, the pop top is more difficult to raise than we're used to but it seems a heavier roof requires some sort of weightlifting stance with legs apart and all the force generated as vertically as possible.
So far, so good for us but you'll need to protect your shoulder as well so some sort of help with the lifting could be a solution.
Can you take a strong toy boy with you?
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Can you take a strong toy boy with you?
Good God! - not in a million bloody years!! That's why I was hoping to do this 'getting away in a van' thing! Have managed for all my adult life without so called 'strong any-kind-of-male' and could not think of anything worse than travelling around with one! Would rather give up idea of touring than that. You are right about the weight lifting stance - so right. I was at a van park just a few days ago and asked a fellow pop top traveller how she manages. And she NEVER raises her pop top! she is only 5'1" and says in all the 5 years she has had the van, top has never been raised. She does allot of touring around, and told me she has come across a large number of people who struggle to get their pop tops up. Can't understand it - seems people must just put up with it.
So still deciding what to do!