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Mark_and_Linda
Jul 31, 2015Explorer
This thread sure hits the spot: last weekend we went to a local campground, I got backed in to the spot, no problem. I got everything unhooked and hooked up..awning down, going to take it easy. We noticed the big 5 wheels coming through the campground and then one stops at the spot next to ours. He tried to get it backed in, close for the size of his rig. He was in the bushes next to ours...truck and trailer blocking the road. Several came out to try and get him backed into the spot...didn't work. The left rear slide out was hooked up in a small tree near the fairing. We chopped out the bush, then a tree was way to close on the left rear, almost ready to take off a drain or the aft slide out cover. Truck was un-hooked, trailer still blocking the road so maybe he could tow out the other direction. Nope....truck cab too close to the trailer..about an hour later the truck was hooked where it was before, a guy next door got on top and pushed on the tree as the truck and trailer was slowly moved forward, it cleared. He slowly got out of the brush, turned around somewhere and then came back to a pull through below our spot. I have been doctoring my hand....ivy got me...moral of story. Sometimes the rig is just too big for a campground that is not 5th wheel friendly. I had to use my hatchet to chop out the small tree that was hung up in the fairing.
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