wowens79 wrote:
Gdetrailer wrote:
Can't figure out if you are serious or joking.
How are you planning to pick up the tongue? There will be considerable amount of weight on the tongue to deal with which would require some sort of wheeled dolly.
Then you have the issue of trailer bumpers being nothing more than 20 ga sheet metal, you would have to reinforce that considerably..
Perhaps consider a Motor Home instead of a trailer, then you can simply drive it into position..
You will end up wrecking a trailer attempting to push from behind..
Of course there will be a bunch of folks posting they do it all the time..
I think it is a pretty good question as I’ve been in a couple of sites I’d like to do that, and have manually done it when I had a pop up.
The silly suggestion is to buy a motor home to permanently park.
Might be a "good question" but a "pop up" and a 26+ ft trailer are two entirely different creatures when it comes to tongue weight.
Popup has what perhaps 200lbs-250 lbs on the tongue with a trailer weight of 1800 lbs - 3500 lbs, a empty 26ft TT will weigh in at a min of 5000 lbs and can have as much as 750 lbs on that tongue empty.. You are gonna have to have super human strength to pickup a 26ft trailer tongue by hand..
I used to have a "landscape" trailer that weight 500 lbs empty TW of 50 lbs, yeah, I could pickup the tongue by hand and yeah with some effort could push that trailer around the yard by hand.. But, that was on flat areas, on a hilly area, there was no safe way to to that by hand..
Not to mention the issue of the trailer tongue jack, even if you put a skid plate under the jack, it WILL dig right into the ground and the result will be a bent jack and or bent trailer frame.. You would HAVE to have something with low rolling resistance but then you would have the issue of needing to turn that wheel directionally..
The only way I can see one "pushing" a trailer by the rear bumper is one would HAVE to have sufficient weight on the trailer back bumper/frame to remove the 700+ lbs from the trailer tongue (making the tongue float in the air) but that is trickier than it sounds..
Not to mention it is gonna take several thousand pounds of down force on the rear to pick up 700 lbs of tongue weight, something is gonna give or break putting that much downforce on the trailer frame and bumper.. Heck, even most pickup trucks in 1500 weight class will have not much more than 3K lbs of weight on the trucks' front axles so a good chance that trailer will end up picking your truck off of its front wheels.
Once you remove the tongue weight, you now have a 5000+ lb wrecking ball than you no longer have control of, so if it starts moving and it is not 100% flat land, it will keep on moving..
The idea is fundamentally flawed from the start..
As far as using a Motor Home as a "permanent" setup goes as being silly, no, it is not any more silly than dumping a Travel Trailer permanently in your back yard.. Used motor Homes are plentiful, can be inexpensive with a motivated seller trying to unbury their finances of items they cannot afford or can't use and when you start adding up the expenses of hiring excavators/backhoes/cranes/forklifts and or jerry rigging a very potentially hazardous method the extra couple of dollars spent on a used Motor Home will be well worth it.
Don't want to spend on a Motor Home? Buy a decommissioned school bus..
To myself, placing a RV in the backyard as a permanent feature is not really a very appealing look, over time as the RV ages, if you don't work to maintain the appearance it will just look like a derelict old abandoned trash heap.. Have seen that a lot where I live where someone buys a cheap RV to use as a storage shed..
If you really want extra living space in your backyard, they do make small "park" trailers that are built for that purpose that will hold up much better with much less maintenance and they can blend into your yard better than a RV. More expensive, yep.
