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[email protected] gfretwell@aol.com is offline
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On Tue, 27 Jun 2017 17:12:42 -0400, "Mr. Luddite"
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On 6/27/2017 3:21 PM, wrote:
On Tue, 27 Jun 2017 15:04:45 -0400, John H
wrote:

I've seen farmers who could back up *two* of those damn wagons loaded with hay and get it done with
very little fuss. Just backing one was hard enough for me, 'course I was only a kid.


I was always impressed watching guys backing up double bottom semis.
They can get the back one up to the dock, then unhook and put the
front one in the next bay with minimal lost motion.



The summer after HS graduation and before starting college I worked for
Bekins Moving and Storage. They used to let me drive the semi back to
the warehouse when it was empty. They are *much* easier to control
backing up than a little lawn trailer behind a lawn tractor.


That gets a little trickier when you hook the second trailer on.
You may not even have double bottom trucks up there.