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08-21-2011, 12:42 PM
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Senior Member
Trailer: 2020 Escape 19 (was 2005 16 ft Scamp Side Dinette and 2005 Fleetwood (Coleman) Taos pop-up)
Posts: 1,227
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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.
John
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08-21-2011, 01:02 PM
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Senior Member
Trailer: 13 ft Trillium
Posts: 293
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Yup, that seems simple enough... LOL
Barrie
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08-21-2011, 01:09 PM
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Senior Member
Trailer: 1988 16 ft Scamp Deluxe
Posts: 25,697
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Get a car that's front wheel drive, OMG my eyes are leaking
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Donna D.
Ten Forward - 2014 Escape 5.0 TA
Double Yolk - 1988 16' Scamp Deluxe
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08-21-2011, 02:06 PM
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Senior Member
Name: Jason
Trailer: 2007 Eggcamper & Homemade Tear Drop
New York
Posts: 663
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Now that's funny!
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08-21-2011, 04:05 PM
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Senior Member
Trailer: 2009 17 ft Casita Freedom Deluxe
Posts: 857
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Luv Red Green.
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08-21-2011, 04:44 PM
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Senior Member
Trailer: Outback (by Trillium) 2004
Posts: 1,588
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gotta love red green!! too funny
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08-21-2011, 05:15 PM
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Senior Member
Name: Jack
Trailer: '98 BURRO 17WB
Delaware
Posts: 2,548
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Quote:
Originally Posted by theresa p
gotta love red green!! too funny
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Whatever floats your--uh--class III motorboat.
jack
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08-22-2011, 12:10 AM
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Senior Member
Trailer: 1999 Casita 17 ft Spirit Deluxe
Florida
Posts: 255
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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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08-22-2011, 06:45 AM
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Senior Member
Name: Charlie
Trailer: '83 Burro
Virginia
Posts: 404
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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!
Froggie
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08-23-2011, 10:28 PM
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Senior Member
Trailer: 92 16 ft Scamp
Posts: 11,756
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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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08-23-2011, 10:37 PM
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Moderator
Trailer: U-Haul 1985
Posts: 3,436
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We still can get the RG show on cable. Usually a PBS station
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08-24-2011, 09:43 AM
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Senior Member
Name: Philip
Trailer: Escape 13 /Hyundai Santa Fe
British Columbia
Posts: 471
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Funny!
Thanks John,
I'm gonna be laughin' all day Gotta luv our Canuck humour, eh?
Phil
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08-24-2011, 09:09 PM
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Senior Member
Name: Andy
Trailer: 1979 Ventura 13'
Alberta
Posts: 133
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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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10-13-2011, 09:43 AM
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Senior Member
Name: Bonnie and Claude
Trailer: N/A
Ontario
Posts: 224
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Priceless... being good little Canucks we NEVER travel without our duct tape!
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10-13-2011, 09:36 PM
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Senior Member
Trailer: 1975 13 ft Trillium
Posts: 2,535
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....and WD 40
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10-14-2011, 07:06 AM
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Senior Member
Name: Bonnie and Claude
Trailer: N/A
Ontario
Posts: 224
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Quote:
Originally Posted by Doug Mager
....and WD 40
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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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10-14-2011, 10:00 AM
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Senior Member
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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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10-14-2011, 10:08 AM
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Senior Member
Name: Norm and Ginny
Trailer: Scamp 16
Florida
Posts: 7,517
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Required Equipment
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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Norm and Ginny
2014 Honda Odyssey
1991 Scamp 16
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10-14-2011, 10:40 AM
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Senior Member
Name: Jesse
Trailer: 1984 Scamp 13'
Maryland
Posts: 815
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Quote:
Originally Posted by honda03842
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.
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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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