How Long Can I go?

E&J push'n wind wrote:

Homecrew wrote:
I just want to thank all of you for your ideas and suggestions. We KNOW we cannot back the trailer into our driveway - we could barely put our 17' trailer in, it is a narrow street.

We are almost 700' from the corner to our house, I suppose that we could back the trailer in, but that sounds intimidating to me...anyone done that ?

Right now it seems the best course of action would be to take the cul-de-sac measurements to a dealer, chalk them out in their parking lot and see if we can make it. I think a real-world test will tell us if we are biting off a longer trailer than we can chew.

Unless of course, if there is anyone in the Charlotte,nc area that would like to take a shot at it :)!

If it is any consolation, a longer TT will have better "backing manners" in that it will take less correction to keep it going in the direction you want it to go. If you have a ground guide it makes the job a little less stressfull. With practice it is completely doable. A little more confidence in yourself is all you need, again it is doable, folks do it all the time and they had to learn as well. Hope this helps, FWIW!

We backed in our TT. It was a little dicey but our driveway was raised so the back end of it could be off the drive. We are also almost at a corner, which made it helpful. For our new MH we had our driveway redone, which is something you might think about if 1. You want your unit close by and 2. you don't want to rely on hrs and cost of storing it elsewhere.