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wa8yxm
Mar 23, 2018Explorer III
I have backed both trailers and a class A into campsites.. WITHOUT A SPOTTER.
NOW.. I do not like doing it that way Way easier with a TRAINED spotter but even when I had a spotter training was beyond my or her ability. So I wound up using another method. (I had her stand where I did not want to go)
Worked well.. Now I choose site carefully.
There are many "Tricks" for backing a trailer.. Alas, i don't use 'em, I put brain in reverse as it were. but that's because I've been backing trailers for ..... over 50 years. Starting on a farm with farm trailers. Some of which I had to back around an "S" curve between two buildings with less than 4 Feet clearance total (both sides combined)... Several times a day.
Now that's how you learn to reverse.
NOW.. I do not like doing it that way Way easier with a TRAINED spotter but even when I had a spotter training was beyond my or her ability. So I wound up using another method. (I had her stand where I did not want to go)
Worked well.. Now I choose site carefully.
There are many "Tricks" for backing a trailer.. Alas, i don't use 'em, I put brain in reverse as it were. but that's because I've been backing trailers for ..... over 50 years. Starting on a farm with farm trailers. Some of which I had to back around an "S" curve between two buildings with less than 4 Feet clearance total (both sides combined)... Several times a day.
Now that's how you learn to reverse.
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