any advice for a stupid person (me)lol hooking up to a trailer ball

[SuzzeeeQ2012]

We've been dealing with this for years. Every time we go to back up to the trailer ball, and I'm helping, I CAN'T DO IT. It takes 5 times back and forth for him to get on the ball.

We DO have a backup camera, but he says he can't really see in it very well (black and white and everything blurs or something).

if I'm standing at the left so he can see ME, I can't see the BALL and if he needs to go left or right. So, I end up going back and forth 50 times and he goes forward and back till he gets on.


Well, tonight, he went BACKWARDS instead of forward and the trailer ended up on the ground.

I hate doing this! I suck at it.

argh

[wnjj]

Can he see you out the back window? What I found that seems to work for anyone I've directed back is this:

-Stand by the ball.
-Hold one hand up edgewise with your pinky toward the truck (think half of prayer hands).
-As the truck backs, tilt your fingers left or right as needed to direct.
-When within a couple feet of the ball, hold your thumb and index finger wide apart, then slowly and proportionally squeeze them smaller as the ball approaches. Your finger should touch your thumb right as the ball is under the coupler.

With this method you don't have to run in and out to give directions.

[inky]

Get a a set of these and hooking up will be made a lot easier.

http://www.etrailer.com/dept-pg-Hitch_Accessories-sf-Hitch_Aligner.aspx