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JimBollman
Nov 02, 2016Explorer
I enjoy watching someone that knows how to back (I don't). I watched a couple back a long 5th wheel into a tight spot in one try no adjusting back and forth. They used headsets and the wife walked around with a stick to measure clearances for slides and just talked to her husband as he backed. I was so impressed I went over and told them so. They said they had been full timing it for awhile.
My second impressed job was large 5th wheel pulled by an over the road semi tractor. They pulled into a tractor/truck show (semi tractor was an antique they were going to show). The fellow directing people told them the gate to the area they wanted to park was behind them. I would have turned around and driven through, they backed up through a gate that was maybe 10' wide across about 800' of open field and under a tree on the other side, all in one smooth sweeping curve at a goo rate of speed. Dropped the trailer and pulled back out to put the tractor on the show field.
Don't usually watch people having problems unless I can help, I would not want them watching me.
My second impressed job was large 5th wheel pulled by an over the road semi tractor. They pulled into a tractor/truck show (semi tractor was an antique they were going to show). The fellow directing people told them the gate to the area they wanted to park was behind them. I would have turned around and driven through, they backed up through a gate that was maybe 10' wide across about 800' of open field and under a tree on the other side, all in one smooth sweeping curve at a goo rate of speed. Dropped the trailer and pulled back out to put the tractor on the show field.
Don't usually watch people having problems unless I can help, I would not want them watching me.
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