Stuck along a fence
39.9 ft fifth wheeler. FIRST time drivers. Getting dark, unable to manage the TINY back up space at the storage facility. Now we move to get out of the facility and find ourselves unable to maneuver a...
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agesilaus wrote:
There is probably a helpful, most of us are, fifth wheel owner near you that will maneuver your fiver out and back in if you are staying.
Take advice, but hard to be sure the one giving knows. Nobody else s responsible.
BB_TX wrote:
If it went in without hitting the fence, it can come out without hitting the fence. But it may take a really skilled person to do it.
A "really skilled person" can be replaced by a person that moves slow, and thinks about each move before he makes it.
Hook back up, and be sure the TV is straight in front of trailer. You will want a spotter, and want them at the right front of TV, where can watch the right side, and you can watch them. If back of trailer is not hitting fence, there is some distance you can turn to left as you go forward. Once the right side wheels are ahead of the left in relation to the fence, the trailer will be moving away from fence. Go straight forward as far as you can, stop. Should have the rig in a line. Crank wheel hard to right, back up a little, maybe a foot, then go hard left, and ease back, straightening the wheel, with the goal of getting TV back straight in front of trailer in the shortest distance you can. Hopefully, when the rig is straight, the trailer is parallel to fence, and farther from it. Go back as far as you can, making only small corrections to keep it straight. Repeat, but because you are starting with a little more room for tail swing, you can turn left a little more to start, so when you go as far forward as you can, and make that sharp right cut to back, you can go back a little more to get trailer parallel to fence.
