Do you unload when you camp? Really?
Wife and I spent a week plus tooling around one or our favorite areas, hiking, fishing, touring, fishing, drinking, fishing.... walking the campsite mid week, which was maybe 1/4 full, we started tal...
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NRALIFR wrote:Guide strings work well for us on our SRW with Torklift frame tie-downs while loading our '19 Northern Lite 8-11. Takes me about a minute to use painter's tape to tape a string to the inside, bottom of the white front/rear upper support legs on each side (takes about 15 sec. to remove). With the guide strings in-place it's easy to see if you're backing in completely straight and square because you can see the distance from the Torklift front and rear frame tie-downs and the string at all 4-corners (on both sides) with just a glance or two in the mirrors. On our SRW the four Torklift frame tie-downs are only 4 in. or so away from the guide strings on each side of the truck the entire time we're backing-in, so it's easy to keep things square realtime at all 4-corners. Without the guide strings it's much more difficult to accurately judge side-to-side distance as the rear Torklift frame tie-downs are transitioning from the front, to the rear, camper jack legs.
. . . I used my load-guide ropes to help me get back under the camper easily . . .
FWIW, this is a different approach from NRALIFR because we have an SRW (vs. NRALIFR's DRW). Our SRW offers a clear view of all 4 Torklift frame tie-downs (specifically the rear tie-downs) as you back-in. Also, the jack legs (and string) on a SRW are much closer to the frame tie-downs (vs. a DRW) making it much easier to keep things visually square as you back-in.
YMMV.
