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On Mon, 29 Jul 2013 07:12:21 -0700 (PDT), True North wrote:

On Monday, 29 July 2013 10:41:24 UTC-3, F.O.A.D. wrote:
On 7/29/13 9:33 AM, Wayne.B wrote:

On Mon, 29 Jul 2013 05:30:02 -0700 (PDT), True North

wrote:

Wife and I are able to unhook the 2000# rig on the street and with a bit of a run are able to push it up from the gutter to the sidewalk and then down the driveway.

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Glad to hear you had a nice cruise but the trailer procedure sounds a

bit dicey.

Why is it that you can't back the trailer into the driveway with your

vehicle? If you have space enough to pull it out, you should have

room to back it in.

It's a lot easier to pull a boat on a trailer straight out of a tight

parking space than it is to back that boat on a trailer back into a

tight parking space. I'm not familiar with the width or conditions of

Don's driveway and neither are you, and there may be circumstances that

make it more difficult than you surmise.

Perhaps on one of your next cruises to places you've been a million

times, you can expand that voyage up to Nova Scotia, have Don meet you

at a local marina, and then show him how perfectly you can back up his

rig in his driveway.

Make sure someone videotapes it.

Yup.. and if anyone is parked opposite my driveway, I can't pull out without dropping one of the trailer wheels over a curb.

I can't get my trailer (33' long) either in or out of the driveway without going over a curb. I have
a couple 3"x6" chunks of wood, each about three feet long, that I put in the gutter before I back in
or pull out. That let's the tires get a head start on the curb. Works like a charm.

Why do you need to "get a head start on the curb" if you can do it
"without dropping one of the trailer wheels over a curb"?