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12-05-2014, 11:20 AM
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#41
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Senior Member
Join Date: Feb 2010
Location: Phoenix Metro Area, Arizona
Trailer: 2014 Escape 19
Posts: 767
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Quote:
Originally Posted by dbailey
Merging the trailer naming topic and the metric topic (it is a Canadian-made trailer, after all), how about "Kilo'scape"? Or would that be a thousand trailers lined up nose-to-end instead of the thousandth one?
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It would be 1,000 trailers. But I am not sure if they should be lined up lengthwise, sideways, in a circle, or randomly. I do know they should not be stacked on top of each other.
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12-05-2014, 11:36 AM
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#42
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Senior Member
Join Date: Jan 2014
Location: North Van., British Columbia
Trailer: 2014 Escape 19, sold; 2019 Escape 21, Sept. 2019
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Quote:
Originally Posted by jamman
It would be 1,000 trailers. But I am not sure if they should be lined up lengthwise.
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If we took 19' as an average then that would be 19,000' or 3.6 miles or for the other 99% of the world; 5719 meters or 5.8 kilometers
Any way you slice it, pretty impressive.
Ron
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12-05-2014, 11:42 AM
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#43
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Senior Member
Join Date: Jul 2012
Location: O town, British Columbia
Trailer: 2014 Escape 21 "Lightning"
Posts: 1,467
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A slightly off kilter fact:
1000 Escapes with an average length of 17'0" would make a line just over 5km long. Which is the approximate distance of ETI world headquarters to the major shopping mall area to the east. Aka Lickman to Vedder roads.
Ok, Ron beat me to it ... I was fighting google.
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12-05-2014, 12:44 PM
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#44
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Senior Member
Join Date: Jan 2014
Location: North Van., British Columbia
Trailer: 2014 Escape 19, sold; 2019 Escape 21, Sept. 2019
Posts: 8,743
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And if they did circle them the diameter would be 1.145 miles!
Ron
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12-05-2014, 12:53 PM
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#45
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Senior Member
Join Date: Oct 2008
Location: St. Thomas not BVI., Ontario
Trailer: 2014 Escape 5.0TA / 2016 Ram Eco Diesel 4X4
Posts: 8,035
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Hi: All... It shouldn't matter how many trailers Escape has built. As long as the one they build for you... is the best they can do!!! Congrats to ETI on your 1000th unit. Alf
escape artist N.S. of Lake Erie
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12-05-2014, 12:57 PM
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#46
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Senior Member
Join Date: Feb 2010
Location: Phoenix Metro Area, Arizona
Trailer: 2014 Escape 19
Posts: 767
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WAIT a minute. Canada is metric - right?
What is with this Escape numbering scheme - I do believe it is expressed in FEET!!!!
And can Canadians catch 2 foot-itis?
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12-05-2014, 01:05 PM
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#47
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Senior Member
Join Date: Jan 2014
Location: North Van., British Columbia
Trailer: 2014 Escape 19, sold; 2019 Escape 21, Sept. 2019
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Quote:
Originally Posted by jamman
WAIT a minute. Canada is metric - right?
And can Canadians catch 2 foot-itis?
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OK, now I have an excuse from going from a Scamp 13 to an Escape 19, I got confused in the metric conversion.
Ron
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12-05-2014, 01:19 PM
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#48
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Senior Member
Join Date: Oct 2009
Location: Galesville, Wisconsin
Trailer: 2017 21 "Blue II" & 2017 Highlander XLE (previously 2010 17B "Blue" & 2008 Tacoma)
Posts: 4,232
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Quote:
Originally Posted by gbaglo
Story is on Escape Trailer Industries site ( right side of this page ).
Or, Our Escape Story
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Glenn, thanks for posting that, I'd never paid any attention that it was there. Tammy told me some of the story when we picked up the trailer, but it's fun to read the whole story.
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12-05-2014, 02:46 PM
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#49
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Site Team
Join Date: Nov 2008
Location: Portland, Oregon
Trailer: 2014 Escape 5.0 TA
Posts: 11,023
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Alaska is not a country ;-)
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12-05-2014, 03:38 PM
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#50
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Senior Member
Join Date: Dec 2012
Location: Edmonton, Alberta
Trailer: 1979 Boler B1700
Posts: 14,935
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Quote:
Originally Posted by Donna D.
Alaska is not a country ;-)
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Are we talking about the map? It shows only three non-metric countries: U.S.A., Liberia, and Burma - as shown in text labels (no label for Alaska). All bits of the US are coloured to match - I suppose Hawaii, Puerto Rico, and the US Virgin Islands are all pink if you can make them out in the map's resolution; they're not separate countries either.
How did we get from Escape History to metric system use? Don't answer that...
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12-05-2014, 03:41 PM
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#51
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Senior Member
Join Date: Dec 2012
Location: Edmonton, Alberta
Trailer: 1979 Boler B1700
Posts: 14,935
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Quote:
Originally Posted by dbailey
Merging the trailer naming topic and the metric topic (it is a Canadian-made trailer, after all), how about "Kilo'scape"? Or would that be a thousand trailers lined up nose-to-end instead of the thousandth one?
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I think a "Kilo'scape" (which I think should be Kiloscape or maybe Kilo-scape) would be a thousand times the size of a base Escape - ten times wider, ten times longer, and ten times taller. Imagine the kilotug!
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12-05-2014, 03:42 PM
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#52
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Site Team
Join Date: Jun 2014
Location: Canyon Lake, Texas
Trailer: 2015 19 "Past Tents", 2021 F150 Lariat 2.7L EB
Posts: 10,222
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Quote:
Originally Posted by escape artist
Hi: All... It shouldn't matter how many trailers Escape has built. As long as the one they build for you... is the best they can do!!! Congrats to ETI on your 1000th unit. Alf
escape artist N.S. of Lake Erie
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Right on Alf. As far as I'm concerned ours is the first!
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12-05-2014, 04:39 PM
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#53
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Senior Member
Join Date: Mar 2014
Location: Olathe, Kansas
Trailer: 2015 21ft Escape "Spirit of the Plains", 2014 GMC Sierra with max tow package
Posts: 1,100
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It was really interesting to see them all lined up in various stages of construction and with addresses for all over North America. Reace said the line moves forward every 8.5 hours. The paperwork is taped to the side of the trailer with any special instructions. With only a thousand spread out and most of them in the Northwest, if I spotted one here in the Midwest, I would feel like I won the lottery. But by this time next year there will be three that I know of in the KC metro area. Loren
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12-05-2014, 04:40 PM
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#54
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Senior Member
Join Date: Aug 2012
Location: Portland, Oregon
Trailer: 2002 Escape 13'
Posts: 967
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Quote:
Originally Posted by Brian B-P
Are we talking about the map? It shows only three non-metric countries: U.S.A., Liberia, and Burma - as shown in text labels (no label for Alaska). All bits of the US are coloured to match - I suppose Hawaii, Puerto Rico, and the US Virgin Islands are all pink if you can make them out in the map's resolution; they're not separate countries either.
How did we get from Escape History to metric system use? Don't answer that...
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I'll bet we are taking about food soon...
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12-05-2014, 04:42 PM
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#55
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Commercial Member
Join Date: Apr 2014
Location: Hillsboro, Oregon
Trailer: 2014 Escape 21 - "Felicity"
Posts: 2,945
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Quote:
Originally Posted by Loren & Cathy
It was really interesting to see them all lined up in various stages of construction and with addresses for all over North America. Reace said the line moves forward every 8.5 hours. Loren
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ETI is definitely doing well if they are to the point where they can complete almost 1 trailer a day!
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12-05-2014, 06:55 PM
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#56
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Senior Member
Join Date: Jan 2014
Location: North Van., British Columbia
Trailer: 2014 Escape 19, sold; 2019 Escape 21, Sept. 2019
Posts: 8,743
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Quote:
Originally Posted by hotfishtacos
I'll bet we are taking about food soon...
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Is poutine really food?
Ron
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12-05-2014, 07:12 PM
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#57
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Senior Member
Join Date: Sep 2014
Location: Ventura County, California
Trailer: 2015 Escape 17A
Posts: 2,344
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Quote:
Originally Posted by hotfishtacos
I'll bet we are taking about food soon...
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At the next Escape rally, everyone brings their favorite dish, a
kilopotlock, yes! But, every one really does have to come.
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12-05-2014, 07:37 PM
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#58
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Site Team
Join Date: Nov 2008
Location: Portland, Oregon
Trailer: 2014 Escape 5.0 TA
Posts: 11,023
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Brian, I just read the legend and took it literally. HAHAHAHAHA
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Ten Forward
2014 Escape 5.0TA
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12-05-2014, 07:42 PM
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#59
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Senior Member
Join Date: Oct 2008
Location: Calgary, Alberta
Trailer: 2017 Escape 5.0 TA
Posts: 15,532
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Quote:
Originally Posted by dfandrews
At the next Escape rally, everyone brings their favorite dish, a
kilopotlock, yes! But, every one really does have to come.
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I don't have a favourite dish, I like all food. Yes, some is better though.
I think every Escape owner should come to the rally, though we might have to find a bigger venue, as I has sure seen it grow over the years, since that first one.
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2015 Ford F150 Lariat 3.5L EcoBoost
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12-05-2014, 08:14 PM
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#60
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Senior Member
Join Date: Aug 2011
Location: St. Paul, Minnesota
Trailer: 2014 Escape 21 -- The Skylark. Towed by a 2014 Highlander
Posts: 1,159
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Quote:
Originally Posted by Jim Bennett
Boy, you guys south of the 49th sure do love to complicate measurements, eh?
I am fairly well versed in both imperial, and metric, and would just love to go all metric, but alas, with our economy so tied to the much larger US market, we must give in to using both.
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I am still miffed that the US has not adopted the metric system, even after my 5th grade teacher, Miss Kessler, promised me that it would be happening very soon. That was in 1960.
I am a cyclist, so I changed all my bicycle computers to show speed and distance in kilometers rather than miles. I am much faster now -- I average "25" instead of "15". and I go much farther now too. When I rode across the country, my blog reported all my distances in kilometers, which drove dear wife crazy until she finally figured them out.
I would be very happy to have a 6.5 meter trailer rather than a 21...
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