I bought a basic Parkit 360 rated to move a 10,000 lb trailer from Saferwholesale. I live on a cul de sac. At the street there is a shallow ditch and the yard is about 2 feet above the street with a slope, there is no driveway and no way to get my 28-1/2 foot trailer into the front yard. My lot is five sided and has 2 rear property lines which are 91 degrees to each other. One of the rear property lines is 40ft long and has a private paved road that parallels it and is narrower than the road behind your lot. There was no fence and I had kids cutting through.
Last September I had a 6 ft high fence with 24 ft wide hinged double swing gate put up set back 4 ft from the property line. Using the front hitch on my truck I would have no ploblem backing the trailer in and parking along the other rear property line which is 60 ft long. However I wanted to park the with the rear bumper towards the road putting the entry door facing the back of the house meaning I would have to pull the trailer in tonge first and could not use the truck to move the trailer all the way since it would not allow me to pull the trailer all the way where I wanted it with the tongue 6 ft from the side property line.
So I bought the Parkit 360. Initially I used the trucks front hitch to pull the trailer in backing the truck throught the gate first then un hitching to pull the trailer the rest of the way with the Parkit 360 continuing accross the grass and then dirt where a shed used to be. Even though I ordered it with knobby turf tires there was not enough traction in the grass and especially on the dirt the tires would just spin. Even though I was able to get 2 x 10's under the Parkit's tires the trailer tires were settling into the grass making shallow ruts keeping the trailer from rolling and the Parkit's tires would still spin. Adding tongue weight didn't even help and there were already 2 - 30 lb propane cylinders and 2 group 24 batteries on the tongue. I had to get a couple neighbors and the Guy that I was paying to do yard work that day to help push it the rest of the way to it's parking place while I steered and operated the dolly.
Fortunately the trailer will be staying there for a while. The next time it is moved will be when I put in a parking pad and compacted gravel driveway.
These dolly's will probably work fine on asphalt and concrete and probably okay on hard packed surfaces but don't work well on grass with a soft base or soft dirt.
