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Originally posted by Kilroy2721:
You ought to try backing up a tandem trailer. Very hard to do. I spent a lot of time pulling back forward to straighten them back up and try again.

Same for backing aircraft with a Coleman and towbar.

I can only imagine how much tougher it would be on a carrier.

I have never gotten the hang of it, but since I almost never tow anything, that is understandable. Also, since I almost never tow anything, I don't need to know how to do it.

It is like knitting. I don't know how, and I don't need to know.

We downsized from a 22ft Chapparal to a Yamaha PWC. Glad to see I'm not the only one who had a difficult backing transition.

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Originally posted by NK402:
We downsized from a 22ft Chapparal to a Yamaha PWC. Glad to see I'm not the only one who had a difficult backing transition.

Yeah, since when you at first don't understand the dynamics at play you just think its you, and you get incredibly frustrated really quickly.

Or so I hear....

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Originally posted by jhe888:


It is like knitting. I don't know how, and I don't need to know.

So, when the Zombie apocalypse is here and winter hits, you're going to just wrap yourself in one of your wife's quilts? You can't maneuver well enough to swing a chainsaw wearing a quilt.

We have a smallish trailer that I often back into the driveway. One time I was halfway when some punk who looked like he had been driving for about two days came zooming around the curve in the road and laid on the horn at me. Little jerk.

^^My backing skills are severely diminished when this happens; often requiring several attempts including pulling forward to line things up just right.

Slow and small corrections.

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Originally posted by brecaidra:
We have a smallish trailer that I often back into the driveway. One time I was halfway when some punk who looked like he had been driving for about two days came zooming around the curve in the road and laid on the horn at me. Little jerk.

Probably because you're left-handed.

Backing up a small trailer is not one of my accomplishments. Shortly after my teenaged wife and I married an encyclopedia salesman came along and sold us a set of encyclopedias. When it became time to move across the state I could get everything we owned into our '57 Ford except for the encyclopedias, so I rented a 4'x 7' luggage trailer to carry the encyclopedias. Everything went well until we pulled into a drive-in restaurant in Roswell, NM. Then it came time to back out. That's when the trouble started. People were laughing so hard some of them fell out of their cars. The final solution was to unload the encyclopedias. Then unhitch the trailer and back it up by hand. Then back up the car and reattach the trailer. Then reload the encyclopedias and head for Carlsbad.

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Originally posted by cincinnatijim:
my teenaged wife and I married an encyclopedia salesman

Kinky!

When I was much younger, I used to have to drag one of these around behind my splicing truck everyday. Let’s just say practice make you much better.



Behind one of these

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Originally posted by PHPaul:

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Originally posted by V-Tail:
The aircraft maintenance guys at the airport use a golf cart to schlep light & medium aircraft around.

They have a hitch on the front of the golf cart. They can back an airplane into a hangar with inches to spare.

Yes indeedy. I put a Reese receiver on the front of my Tundra for just that reason. I can and have stuffed a loaded boat trailer into my garage with less than 2 inches on either side between the fenders and the door.

If I ever owned something I had to tow a lot, I'd have to do this - thanks to a few summers and a year at a major FBO. I could stack and dump a hangar like a boss.

But - put something towed behind me and I turn into Opie from Family Guy.