car transporter trailer recomendations?

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thought it was mine! said:
i learnt using a small 4 foot trailer after masterin that the caravan was a fookin dodle. The wife has on many occasion when we have been away stood by the drivers window and told the driver left hand down right hand down so they can reverse there caravan.
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Those little trailers can be horrible, single axle and tiny wheels:( I hate em so titchy you cant see them at all in the mirrors or windows.
This on the other hand handles like a dream :)

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Turboman said:
Those little trailers can be horrible, single axle and tiny wheels:( I hate em so titchy you cant see them at all in the mirrors or windows.
This on the other hand handles like a dream :)

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I know where yer coming from. I can't see anything smaller than a long wheelbase high top transit van when towing it with my nooo truck.

It makes reversing into driveways and small repair garages interesting. I have to zig zag so I an see it.

I'm buggered on tight country lanes though.:eek:
 
Turboman said:
Interesting rig! :)
If you don't mind my asking, is that easy to reverse?
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No :D:D

But we have a front towbar on the Discovery which makes it MUCH more easy to reverse.

Cheating a bit possibly, and I can reverse it normally given a bit of room, but the Watling Engineering front towbar does make it so much easier, and we have a centre socket and a left-hand socket for the removable towball so you can sit out over one side a bit if you need the view.

To get it into our front garden, I drive down the close, stop two houses up, drop the tow and bring the car round so I am hooked on the front. Then pull the trailer down and reverse around and into the neighbour's drive opposite, then I can drive it in in low box quite nicely. It will go in when I'm in high box, but it makes it do-able on tickover in low.

Peter
 
3.5 efi said:
left for right with that one.
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I towed one into our yard at work a couple of years back. Like a knob I pulled in forwards. I then had to reverse it out and then reverse it back into the yard and park it in a gap with just a 12"-18" on each side. It sounds like a lot of space until you're actually doing it. I struggled to even get in the bloody gates to start with.:eek:
 
listerdiesel said:
No :D:D

But we have a front towbar on the Discovery which makes it MUCH more easy to reverse.

Cheating a bit possibly, and I can reverse it normally given a bit of room, but the Watling Engineering front towbar does make it so much easier, and we have a centre socket and a left-hand socket for the removable towball so you can sit out over one side a bit if you need the view.

To get it into our front garden, I drive down the close, stop two houses up, drop the tow and bring the car round so I am hooked on the front. Then pull the trailer down and reverse around and into the neighbour's drive opposite, then I can drive it in in low box quite nicely. It will go in when I'm in high box, but it makes it do-able on tickover in low.

Peter
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That would help. The dealer where I got the cattle box they have about 300 trailers, all kinds, cattle, sheep, pigs, horses, flatbeds, plant trailers!
They have an 88" series modded with power steering and front drawbar just to move em about in the yard:D
 
ratty said:
I towed one into our yard at work a couple of years back. Like a knob I pulled in forwards. I then had to reverse it out and then reverse it back into the yard and park it in a gap with just a 12"-18" on each side. It sounds like a lot of space until you're actually doing it. I struggled to even get in the bloody gates to start with.:eek:
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practice. as with any thing, makes it easy.

reversed a draw bar into some racking inside a warehouse one day which wasn't funny.

blamed the banksman. what a tosser. :D
 
3.5 efi said:
practice. as with any thing, makes it easy.

reversed a draw bar into some racking inside a warehouse one day which wasn't funny.

blamed the banksman. what a tosser. :D
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I backed down the M5 with a twin axle caravan minus 2 wheels attached to the front of my truck on an easter bank holiday to prevent having to close the motorway down to turn it around a few years back.:p
 

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3.5 efi said:
how did you steer the truck without the two wheels attached?
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I bolted a tow ball to a U bolt/shackle that usually holds leaf springs to truck axles and then attached it to the truck through the tow pin on the front of my truck. The motorway services wasn't too far back down the road behind me so I got a the highways bod and police to escort me backwards down the hard shoulder. I kept the jockey wheel on the caravan wound up so that I was only steering it on the two wheels that you can see in the pics.;)
 
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