Tail spin
How much tail length is too much to make tail spin problematic or damaging as when leaving the gas pump? My 5er has 12' overhang at the rear. A 38' I'm interested in buying has 17' tail at the rear. T...
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Ivy wrote:
Sorry, Ivy, that is theory talking instead of experience.
What you say may happen in the middle of a nice, smooth, turn, but as you start into a turn, particularly from a dead stop, the tail kicks out dramatically. In tight quarters like a fuel station or a back-in site this can be a real problem. The corner that is kicked out is the one you cannot see.
Good point.
I know when I towed doubles with a 5th wheel rv or with a bumper pull agriculture combo trailers ....tail swing would cause the second trailer to track outside the first trailer. How much depend on tail overhang and how hard the turn was.
In some campgrounds, corners with a deep little ditch/or the sharp end of a culvert on the inside of the turn were tight. While rolling around the corner I would make a quick deeper turn with the truck making the 1st trailers tail swing out farther quickly, making the second trailer swing out and clear the ditch or culvert end.
Bumper pulls react quicker at the tail and they were easier to get the second trailer to react faster than my GN or 5th wheel combo's.
