What are most common greenhorn mistakes?
Our Cedar Creek is online this week & Ford truck next week so soon we are at a stage where the rubber must meet the road. Have read several threads about hitches and pull test and find a variety of op...
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Best advise is to create a check-list of "do's" for setting up camp and breaking camp until it becomes first nature. Even then, things can happen. We all do a pretty good job of setting up and taking down, but even the best of us have on occasion forgotten something. Looking back is now funny. At the time was embarrassing. No damage, or minimal damage resulted, but IT could have been much worse.
Once with our PUP I forgot to throw the catch on the hitch. Started moving, first bump, the trailer bounced off the hitch ... oops! Thank goodness we were only a few feet from our campsite and still at the campground. Embarrassing? Yes! Any damage? Only my pride.
Then once with the TT, forgot to unplug shore power from the house. Got down the road about a 1/4 mile with 35 feet of cord dangling behind the camper. Any damage? No. Dangerous? Yes. Embarrassed? Exceedingly!
It happens to everyone. You'll misjudge and back into a tree, back into a water spiggot or clip the electric plug pole, or misjudge and get a wheel in the grass and get stuck in mud. There's no fool-proof, bullet proof list. Things DO happen. You do your best, and always check and double check when setting up and taking down.
Advise: Never park anywhere (even flat ground) without chocking your trailer tires ... no matter what kind of trailer it is.
Advise: When leaving a campsite ... walk twice all the way around your rig, and check everything.
You'll do fine!
Hope you have great adventures down the road! Good luck!
Once with our PUP I forgot to throw the catch on the hitch. Started moving, first bump, the trailer bounced off the hitch ... oops! Thank goodness we were only a few feet from our campsite and still at the campground. Embarrassing? Yes! Any damage? Only my pride.
Then once with the TT, forgot to unplug shore power from the house. Got down the road about a 1/4 mile with 35 feet of cord dangling behind the camper. Any damage? No. Dangerous? Yes. Embarrassed? Exceedingly!
It happens to everyone. You'll misjudge and back into a tree, back into a water spiggot or clip the electric plug pole, or misjudge and get a wheel in the grass and get stuck in mud. There's no fool-proof, bullet proof list. Things DO happen. You do your best, and always check and double check when setting up and taking down.
Advise: Never park anywhere (even flat ground) without chocking your trailer tires ... no matter what kind of trailer it is.
Advise: When leaving a campsite ... walk twice all the way around your rig, and check everything.
You'll do fine!
Hope you have great adventures down the road! Good luck!
