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Old 08-21-2011, 12:42 PM   #1
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Simple(?) Solution to backing up a trailer

I ran across this video that shows a modification that can be made to your tow vehicle to make the job of backing up a trailer much easier. Although it involves a boat trailer, the same concept should work just as well on a fiberglass RV.



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Old 08-21-2011, 01:02 PM   #2
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Yup, that seems simple enough... LOL
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Old 08-21-2011, 01:09 PM   #3
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Get a car that's front wheel drive, OMG my eyes are leaking
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Old 08-21-2011, 02:06 PM   #4
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Now that's funny!
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Old 08-21-2011, 04:05 PM   #5
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Luv Red Green.
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Old 08-21-2011, 04:44 PM   #6
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gotta love red green!! too funny
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Old 08-21-2011, 05:15 PM   #7
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gotta love red green!! too funny
Whatever floats your--uh--class III motorboat.

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Old 08-22-2011, 12:10 AM   #8
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My cousins in Norfolk VA went to launch their boat. The parking brake didn't hold and they launched boat, trailer and car. They said that that Buick always smelled like a fish market after that.
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Old 08-22-2011, 06:45 AM   #9
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I like it!!

I used to make an annual trek to the Old Time Fiddlers' Convention at Galax, VA, and every year a guy would come in with a slightly more sophisticated version of a "married" tow vehicle and camper. He took the front end of a front wheel drive Cadillac and built what he labeled a "Trail-Dorado." Ya gotta love those shade tree mechanics who think big!

I wonder whether I could lock in the front wheels of my old 4WD Blazer S-10 and take my Burro and just... NAW, don't even think of it, Charlie!

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Old 08-23-2011, 10:28 PM   #10
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I miss the Red Green show. Fav quote is: All it takes is a little imagination, some mechanical ability, and neighbors who mind their own business.
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Old 08-23-2011, 10:37 PM   #11
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We still can get the RG show on cable. Usually a PBS station
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Old 08-24-2011, 09:43 AM   #12
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Funny!

Thanks John,
I'm gonna be laughin' all day Gotta luv our Canuck humour, eh?
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Old 08-24-2011, 09:09 PM   #13
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Red Green (Steve Smith) is a gas. I got a chance to work on an eppisode. The one when the Possum Lodge enters a car in the local stock car races, myself and a couple of friends got to build the car and I drove in the race. It was a Ford Fairmont, 78 I think, painted the same as the possum van. It was run and filmed in an actual race, an enduro at Flamborough speedway. What a blast.

The Red Green Show is a spoof of an actual Canadian outdoors show that was around in the 60s & 70s know as The Red Fisher Show. Horribly cheap production and a cheap set that was suposed to be the Scuttle Butt Lodge and a pannel of old boys BSing about fishin' & huntin' actually made a serrious show comical.
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Priceless... being good little Canucks we NEVER travel without our duct tape!
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Old 10-13-2011, 09:36 PM   #15
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....and WD 40
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....and WD 40
Oh yeah.... we've always got a can at home and in the van. To see the official WD-40 list of 2000 uses: http://www.wd40.com/files/pdf/wd-40_2042538679.pdf
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You guys are clearly novices. The three ingredients to any successful project or repair are duct tape, WD40 and cable/zip ties.

Personally I'm not that convinced by the WD40, but I understand that for many is is an article of faith, which it would be impolite of me to question.
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When we started RVing some 11 years ago, my nephew gave me a Leatherman. Of the last 4000 days, it's been on my belt at 3500 days. I use it practically every day for something.

As to Jim's list and other's trailer requirements, we have them all as well but the Leatherman is the last one I'd give up.
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When we started TVing some 11 years ago, my nephew gave me a Leatherman. Of the last 4000 days, it's been on my belt at 3500 days. I use it practically every day for something.

As to Jim's list and others trailer requirements, we have them all as well but the Leatherman is the last one I'd give up.
Yeah, between the Gerber tool (like a Leatherman) on my belt and the Swiss Army knife in my pocket, I can save a lot of time avoiding the tool box.
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