Wife, dog a day I took the Legend out for a tour of the North West Arm and Halifax Harbour yesterday.
It was a nice pleasant 3 hour cruise.
Looks like I may not need that electric powered trailer dolly after all.
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.

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

Wife, dog a day I took the Legend out for a tour of the North West Arm and Halifax Harbour yesterday.
It was a nice pleasant 3 hour cruise.
Looks like I may not need that electric powered trailer dolly after all.
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.

That will work until one of you slips and gets badly hurt. Learn to back the trailer with the
Highlander.

John (Gun Nut) H.
--

Hope you're having a great day!

On 7/29/2013 8:42 AM, John H wrote:
On Mon, 29 Jul 2013 05:30:02 -0700 (PDT), True North wrote:

Wife, dog a day I took the Legend out for a tour of the North West Arm and Halifax Harbour yesterday.
It was a nice pleasant 3 hour cruise.
Looks like I may not need that electric powered trailer dolly after all.
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.

That will work until one of you slips and gets badly hurt. Learn to back the trailer with the
Highlander.

John (Gun Nut) H.

He's got backsy upsy phobia.

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.

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.

On Monday, 29 July 2013 10:33:13 UTC-3, 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.


I can..and do on occasion.
I just find it awkward.. hard to see where I'm backing to and of course depends on whether there are vehicles parked opposite my driveway.
It's a very narrow street and a very narrow driveway... 10 feet narrow.

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.



===



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.

"True North" wrote in message
...



I can..and do on occasion.
I just find it awkward.. hard to see where I'm backing to and of
course depends on whether there are vehicles parked opposite my
driveway.
It's a very narrow street and a very narrow driveway... 10 feet
narrow.

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My trailer backing skills improved dramatically after I learned to use
the side mirrors only .... no more turning your head to look out the
back window.
It was necessary when we had the fifth wheel and once I practiced
enough it became instinctive rather than having to think about which
way to turn the steering wheel. I use mirrors only on all size
trailers now.

On 7/29/13 10:41 AM, Eisboch wrote:


"True North" wrote in message
...



I can..and do on occasion.
I just find it awkward.. hard to see where I'm backing to and of course
depends on whether there are vehicles parked opposite my driveway.
It's a very narrow street and a very narrow driveway... 10 feet narrow.

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My trailer backing skills improved dramatically after I learned to use
the side mirrors only .... no more turning your head to look out the
back window.
It was necessary when we had the fifth wheel and once I practiced
enough it became instinctive rather than having to think about which
way to turn the steering wheel. I use mirrors only on all size trailers
now.




I've been backing up vehicles with boat trailers attached for about 55
years. Every so often I encounter a backup situation that presents
difficult, unusual circumstances, so I'm not going to say that I can
back up a rig perfectly every time. My saving grace has always been that
I back up verrrrry slooooowly.

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

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

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Obviously a tight spot and/or a narrow driveway. That said, if you
can drive it out over the curb you can probably learn to back it in
over the curb, just takes patience and practice. You could put a
small plank against the curb to act as a ramp. The manual procedure
you describe sounds risky to me.

One of the things I did when learning to back my old 24 footer was to
take the boat to an open space like an empty parking lot and work on
getting the angles right.