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Groover
Aug 03, 2019Explorer II
JGage wrote:opnspaces wrote:
I think you already got it, but the Hensley and the ProPride still pivot when backing up. Otherwise you would never be able to back into a campsite. The Hensley and the ProPride project the pivot point up by the rear axle of the tow vehicle, but there is still a pivot.
Yeah, I've got it enough to understand that what I was originally asking just isn't possible, nor would it likely be desirable. Where I'm still thick in the skull is in trying to visualize why (if I tried something like I was describing) the wheels of the trailer would drag sideways on every turn but then I think of all the two axle vehicles I've seen and driven where that doesn't happen. Is that because on traditional 2-axle vehicles that the two axles are very close together?
That and tires typically have a lot wiggle. Watch more closely and you will see the tires of a tandem axle trailer really flex during a sharp. Sometimes I see axle flex too.
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