 Welcome all back to the channel, everybody. It is a beautiful spring morning here at the tree house. I got the itch for an adventure and it is time for us to go on one, so let's hit it. Gotta let these angry trickers out while I'm catching y'all up on things. Come on girls, come on girls, get it, get it, get it, get it, there you go. Got one missing here and I'm sure it is Carrot sitting in the nesting box. Yeah, old Carrot, she's gone broody on us. Broody ain't good. Look at her, what are you doing? What are you doing? Hey, hey, hey, hey, hey. Oh, you eating that stuff? Okay, so when a chicken goes broody, that means she is in total egg laying mode. Hey, don't you be pecking at them eggs, dad gum. So it's actually kind of a problem. She'll sit there all day, all day, all night, trying to hatch eggs that won't. This is my other issue right now. Is that dad gum duck is trying to mate with my chickens. Come here, eat that gum duck. Now listen, I've done told you, you can't be doing that sir. Now listen little buddy, these are not little ducks that you can just be having your way with sir. Okay, these are our chickens. It is springtime y'all, everything is mating. Fish are spawning, ducks are spawning. Chickens are broody, it is a dad gum reproductive time and including me and Stephanie. We got a baby on the way. Coming this fall, this hunting season and I've been on honeydew duty. Okay, I'll let you go. Oh and quick side note, if you guys are wondering what is going on, like where's my hair? No, I'm not going through any radiation. This is just what happened with the barber over a miscommunication and that's about it. But you can actually see my scar again, which is pretty nuts. Anyway, Stephanie is not happy about that one. So if you guys have followed this channel for a while, you know that I like to do adventure style camping and usually when I go to a lake or somewhere that I haven't been before, I'm exploring, I like to camp and I especially like to truck camp and I'll take my tent and stuff and this is my setup right here. This is my truck, the Silverado 1500 diesel wagon which I had some issues with at first. This is my second one, but I gotta tell you, I love this truck. I've got about 20,000 miles on it now and it is a dagum freaking bass boat puller, man. It's so efficient, 15 miles to the gallon consistently pulling this rig right here, 24 miles to the gallon without it and it's just a little torque, a torque daddy and I love it. Now this wagon I'm picking up today it is pretty heavy and this is gonna be the heaviest thing I've pulled with the little Dirty Max so I'm interested to see how it's gonna do. Hopefully I don't need to get like a bigger truck or something like that. I think my little baby's gonna do it but we're gonna see. I'm gonna tell you guys more about it as we get down the road because we've got a extremely long drive. You all ready for some treats? I gotta put you all up before we go. So y'all get your little bugs in let's lock back in the cage and let's hit the road, okay? And don't be stepping on my beautiful fresh grass that I've been working on this spring as well. Aberdeen, Mississippi, that's where we're going y'all. It's about a nine hour drive. Gonna have a shorter drive on the way back because I'm gonna be plopping that thing on Lake Fork. LFD actually has a friend that lives on the lake and he's invited me to park it over there. And so I'm gonna use that as a home base to fish on Fork and then maybe even go to some other lakes just depending on how the fishing is. Back in the truck, it just had me a little breakfast over here at the Butterbean Cafe. Tuplo, Mississippi, y'all. It's about 7.30 AM right now. So it's gonna be about a 30 minute drive to get over there to where this camper is. So looking at the weather, we're gonna get into some weather this afternoon. I am praying, dear Lord, please don't let it hail. Don't let it hail on the new camper. Here we go, baby, here we go. We are finally here. There we go. There's a lot of RVs out there, but I don't see ours yet. The question right now is, how's my truck gonna pull this thing? I think it's gonna pull it good. And it's got electronic brakes as well. So just had to set my electronic brake gain. I don't have to do that on my boat. The boat is not electronic. So right now, just pulling it low speeds. Everything feels good to go. So let's get on the highway. I got 24 miles to the gallon, 23.9 on the way over here without the trailer. We'll see what that is when we get over to four. This thing feels so good. It's definitely different than towing a regular, ball hitch style trailer. It just, when you go over bumps, it feels a lot smoother and it has independent suspension in the back. So everything just feels really smooth. You feel the weight, but you don't feel like you've got something big and clunky back there, like banging around. It feels very smooth. So that's a really cool aspect of it. The top collapses down so you don't get as much wind drag, but you definitely have a lot of air going up under the bottom catching things. So you're going to have some wind resistance there, but with that much clearance, that's the price today. So picking up the camper on the first day, just getting into a flash flood warning situation, but we haven't encountered any hail yet. Thank goodness. And I'm kind of watching the radar. I don't think we have any tornado breakouts or anything, but it's going to be doing this for a long time, I think all night. We're looking at 14.5 MPGs and we are in Texas right now. So we only have about an hour and a half left on our journey and a 14 and a half. I mean, I get 15 with the boat and with this being 5,000 pounds, I am impressed. Ooh, this is not good. Yep, somebody had a little booboo there. It's going to be a, yeah. There's people driving without their lights and without their flashers on. So cameras such low light, it won't even focus right now. We're in the dark, apologize. We're getting there though. The rain has cleared up and I just stopped at Brookshire's over in equipment, Texas. And I already posted this on my Instagram, but I just want to say thank you to all the fishing freaks. When I go out and I see you guys at boat ramps and just now like in the grocery store and just the energy, thank you guys. Thank you, that just made my night feel so good. We're almost there. We got about five miles to go and we're good. We got all our provisions. Bird, you're singing? It is time to actually give a tour of this thing. The rain is gone. I'm at a buddy's place right now. Luckily you had an awning that I could get under last night because of the hail and stuff, but now we're going to take it down to Lake. All right, y'all. Now I feel like I can finally properly introduce you to the Opus OP-15, my new off-grid adventure vehicle. So we got to park down here by the Lake. My dad's buddy's gracious enough to let me park it down here. And this is going to be base camp for us while we're going fishing this week. Can't think of a better site. Just looking at the lake, oh my gosh. I still have a ton to learn on this thing, but now that I've had a little time to tinker with it and I've gotten a rundown at the dealership, I can explain things a little better for you. So let's get in here. So the way that these come, y'all, it is rigged, ready to go. Like you really don't need to add anything. The only thing that I'll probably end up getting is like a couple of Jerry cans, like one for diesel, one for gas. I probably will need to take a generator and I'll show you are here in just a second. Let's just look up under here. First of all, mud tires. No skimping on tires and you get four of them. And look at that suspension. Gas, tubes, full on independent suspension with 20 inches of clearance. I mean, just tons of room up under there. These little bars with the blue spots on them right here, these are used to stabilize the vehicle. So once you park it in your spot, this isn't completely level, but once you get your deal level, you put these down and this is gonna stabilize everything. You do have AC power on the outside. So you can run, there's actually a TV. There's a TV inside of the cab. It'll mount right here. So you wanna do a little tailgating. You can do that and there's your cable and your audio ports right there. And a lot of the stuff on this side is really for food prep, kitchen. That appears to be locked. This is how many keys come with it. That's just for this. I'm not fully understanding here, but a lot of the, everything on the outside seems to lock up. So you can keep this thing really secure. Give me just a second here and get a fine. Prisoner number 114. Okay, winner. Got it. Took me a long time just to do that. So that's just a prep table for your kitchen right here. You have an accessory storage box. So right now I just have, like there's everything comes with this, by the way. 30 amp power cable, got a potable water hose. Got a 120 connector adapter. Comes with chocks. And there's other tools in here for other accessories of the vehicle like the awning, which is right above us. The kitchen is one of the main reasons people get the opus. It's just a really industrial grade. This slides out and you've got an entire propane stove kitchen folds out really easy. It'll support its weight on its own, but there's a brace that comes with it. But I mean, just the, just the engineering to get this heavy four burner out here and be this stable rock solid, I'm just, I'm impressed. You know, that's for all your silverware and stuff like that. You've got a kitchen, drying rack just raises up. You've got a sink and that sink water will actually just drain down. So I need to get a bucket for that. You just have drawers for accessories, you know, put your knives, put your whatever in here until you access other parts of the kitchen, even have a light. So you do a little, do a little chop, chop, prep, prep. Psss, you know what I'm saying? Outdoor livin'. And the propane hookup for this is right here. So you just gotta plug that in, turn it on. And I'll show you where the propane is. It comes with the two tanks already, full. Just impressive, y'all. And there's a regulator right here. And you've got these, these two hoses connected. You just turn these on and you can flip this. So just a couple more things on this side. In here, I probably already showed you guys this, but this is the Dometic. So the Dometic pulls out. And I've got my food in here right now. So you guys can see. Got a little extra storage on this end. I can maybe put my jackery unit and run these off the jackery if I want to. Save a little battery. So got the groceries in there. Got a freezer and refrigerator side or you could do both on either one. Just whatever you need to do. I love the Dometics. It is just really quiet. I mean, it's on right now, you can't even hear. In the summertime or anytime it gets warm, since this is putting out heat, sucking heat out, just turn that fan on and that will suck the heat out. Right there in that vent. By the way guys, Opus is not a sponsor of mine or anything. I just had a family friend tell me about it. And then another buddy of mine was like, dude, those things are amazing. And he said he was telling me they're hard to get and they are, it took me five months. So another thing that makes this thing pretty unique. We open up this side and this is the Truma Combi system. This is a water and air heating unit. So it does take some propane, but it also takes battery. So it pulls amps off the battery and I'm sure it has a little spark in there. To be honest with you, I don't know how this thing works. I'm not gonna tell it. I'm not gonna try to explain how it works. I just know that it is a really efficient, quiet system. I can't even hear it when it's on. As far as potable water goes, this thing holds about 60 gallons and it's split up into two tanks. And they were actually about half full on the way over here, which adds quite a bit of weight. So I'm still really impressed with the efficiency of towing this. Like the way my truck pulled it, pretty incredible. So this thing's over 5,000 pounds. Felt really good. This is your blackwater disposal at your poopies. You come out of there, that right there. You do have a 30 amp. So if you wanna hook up to shore power with 30 amp, you can run, you do have to have the shore power hooked up to run the AC. The AC pulls too much power. There's one of the tanks right there. Right now I've got the top extended. So let's get on the inside. Let me show you some of the other features. Okay, shoes off. Still a clean vehicle. So we have our power right here. A lot of our lights and stuff like that. So lights are right here. We'll turn on this light for now. But one of the really nice things about the Opus, all the Opus campers is they have tons of windows. This is dark in here, so I'm gonna open these up. For you guys, we got a nice day. So you got three windows over there. There's one, two, three, and a big one on the back. Four windows over there. So you can let in a lot of light, a lot of fresh air, and just make it as tint-like as possible. You can feel like you're in a tent. The other thing I really like about it is the windows. The windows are European style windows, and it's just really smart how they did this. So you pull these out. This will click like that, and that's open. But if you got a bug problem, attach it right there, and then pull it down, and then you got a bug screen. Let that go, and you're back in action. All the windows do that. So this window does that, that window does that. There's a bunch of little tiny, small windows. You get these little reading lights. If you wanna turn on some light, read your favorite book in the dark. Maybe a scary story. So if I was just gonna kind of pull in quick to camp, like I did last night, I'm just gonna sleep in there. And honestly, me and Stephanie could sleep in there. We've slept on a cot up in Colorado that is not as wide as that. The top bunk, that's gonna be for, you know, somebody like Paroxys or a kid, or multiple kids. Storage, storage, storage. Just everywhere, tons of drawers. They lock in really good too. That way when you're going off-roading, you don't have to worry about your stuff getting tossed around. Shower, it's a wet shower. So you got a turlet, and you got a shower. So you can just take a little quick shower, clean the toilet at the same time if you want to. Little sink inside of there as well. Just basic. Step down here so you guys can see the vents for the Trumacombi. So the hot air comes out right here. It actually pushes out quite a bit. So the gas has to be turned on for that to work. Your AC unit is up on the ceiling. And like I said, you do have to be plugged into shore power in order for that to work. But that's your AC unit. So your control panels are right here. So this is kind of like the main bank. This shows you everything that's going on and you can shut things on and off. So this is the power for the fridge. You have your lights. So I want to shut those off. I have the water pump turned off right now just to save power. But you just turn that on and within a few seconds you've got power behind your water. And right now it's showing the battery, the whole system, it's a three bank system just like the boat, like a boat, like a trolling motor would be. 88, so 88%. That's how many amps, I believe, that we're pulling right now, 0.6. So that's with the fridge and with the lights on. This right here, I'm assuming controls the solar panel. That's what it looks like. It does look like there is power going in. So it says 12.8 volts. I think this is automatic. I don't really know, guys. It looks like it's working right now. I don't even know what this switch does. Don't even know. Probably should look that up. This is your radio system, controls the speakers. You can hear it on right now if you want to hook your phone up to it or a Bluetooth. You want a tailgate, turn that on. You've got outdoor speakers and you can get your TV right here. You know, eat your hot dogs, root for your favorite team. Enjoy the great outdoors with football. Right here is the dining room table, essentially. Work table, whatever you want it to do. There's storage underneath these seats right here. This folds around, it moves, it articulates so you can position it however you want and if you want to sit down in here, eat a good meal. You can do that. What I'm probably going to do, I'm just going to bring my camp chairs. Probably store the camp chairs under here and eat outside by the fire. I think that's probably the way to do it. Here's your TV, over there comes with a DVD player, installed, ready to go, no extra charge. So at this point, I'm pretty much ready to get it set up and camp. Pull the kitchen out, do the awning. I can disconnect it from the truck here, put the parking brake on, really cool feature. It's even got a level right there on the tongue so you can see if you're level or not. What else? Oh, these tubes. This tube right here, really thought of everything. Unscrew this and you have your hoses for doing your black water and stuff like that. So there's an entire hose that fits in there and you can pull that out. The only thing really left to do now is to pull out that king area. I really don't even need it, I don't even need it sleeping. But I might pull that out just to play with it and then get this thing chalked, leveled, and we're ready to go. So my dad is on his way over here right now. We're gonna go fishing today. Can't wait to get his reaction on this. He has not seen it yet. He's known for many months that I'm getting it and we're gonna be doing a lot of family adventures in the future with it. So I know he's excited about it too, so I'm gonna get his reaction. You liking it? Bald eagle flies. LFD coming in hot with the Silver Bullets. It's fishing time. You're gonna have to hire me to pull your boat. You know that, right? That might be a good retirement plan. Yep. I like that deal. God, it's crazy. Hey man, yeah, it's adventure, adventure's a wait. Oh my gosh, look how crazy that thing looks. I already got the tires dirty. I already got the tires a little tested, drove through rain. Yeah, this actually comes down and then the king size bed folds out back here. So I haven't even put that out yet, but a lot of do-dads, a lot of gadgets. I didn't know it went up. There's gonna be some fish fried on the side. You know it, you know it. We're gonna keep a skillet ready on demand with some grease. Golden crispies. Golden crispies. Coming out of the adventure vehicle. The engineering on that. It's all ready to go, man. It's pretty cool. I guess the Elite Series is out here. That is just a place I would not go full speed, but you know, when you're in a tournament, you gotta get her done. Colorado trips, they're gonna be fun times. Look at the TV. Yeah, we got a TV. Good to go, man. That is, this is so cool. So, deer camp is now deer luxury camp, huh? Yeah, this is the new camp. This is like the new home, basically. We've been filming a lot of videos out of here, for sure. I think LFD is thinking about future trips going up north, catching brownfish, catching trout up in the mountains. It's hard not to think about that when you're sitting in front of this thing. So, one last thing we're gonna do here, guys. We're gonna pull this out. It's kind of a two-man job. You know, this is sort of a family camping rig, but you can do it by yourself. It just takes some practice. I've already been shown how to do it, but I haven't done it on my own. So, I got Dad here. We're gonna open up the back, and I'll show you guys the bed on the inside once everything's out. But we should get an extra, like, five feet onto the trailer just by folding this down. And then push this. It's all hydraulic, so. Oh, okay, it's not heavy. Press the key button, there you go. Pull up on it. Pull this out. That should fit in that little corner there. It's kind of heavy, so it should fit in the little groove there. There it is, you know. Now this, grab this hand order here, and pull it up, and it is done. So now this bed will fold out, and then you've got a king-sized bed in here, guys. So, it's all packaged up right now, so I'm not gonna get it out, but you unfold that, and then that is your, I mean, that is huge, huge sleeping space. So I would say one, two, three, four, five, six people, if you really wanted to. But it's gonna sleep a family of four very comfortably, maybe even five. Under this is all of your inverters, and power sources, batteries, stuff like that, so you can get in there and work on it. If you need to, there's your batteries. Those are marine deep cycle batteries. All right, y'all, that is the end of this adventure, the Opus OP-15, it is the new adventure wagon to attach to the adventure wagon. We're gonna be having some fun times out of this thing. Doing family camping, doing fishing, hunting trips, and man, just enjoying the great outdoors a little. Just love it. And now we're gonna turn our attention to the great and powerful Lake Fork. So thank you guys for tuning in today. If you want to see more outdoor action, and many videos to come this year, and this thing, subscribe right here to the channel. We're gonna hit a million this year. I'm excited for it. Smash that like button, leave me something positive, and I'll see you on the next one.