Thread: Reversing small box trailer

Originally Posted by johntins

Ah, but I was only talking about reversing one, not launching the boat. You are quite correct, as I have never launched a boat at all in my life, and probably never will. But I most certainly have reversed boat trailers. It's the length of the draw that makes them easier than caravans.

That's a good point .... any boat with a big outboard or two ... will have the axles at the back .... so reverse like a semi or 5th wheeler.

Originally Posted by cuppabillytea

Boats boring??? Dunno about that. But yes, a semi is a bit easier to back than a boat. Haven't tried a B-Double.

Not ALL boats, Billy, just the ones you can't live on. I'd like a big, ocean going thing. I don't fish or ski. Oh, I'd like a tinny if I go up north, but I've seen too many croc movies.

B Double, you have to treat the truck and A trailer as your Prime mover, if that makes sense.

A good way to get better at reversing something is to learn to reverse something more difficult. Your standard is set by the hardest thing you can back well. Anything easier is then a cinch.

The levels of difficulty and skill required just go up and up. If you can back a semi well, then a rigid becomes a cinch. If you can back a double road train well, a bdouble becomes a cinch.

A person might think they are good at reversing a semi, but then ask them to hook it up to a dolly with a ringfeeder that pivots as soon as you are an inch off centre, and then you will find out just how good they are.

Or ask a bdouble driver to reverse around a corner into a park between two other closely spaced bdoubles, or into a bdouble finger dock.

Or reverse a double road train over undulating ground in the dark with a very short dolly drawbar. Ouch. Thats not much different to reversing a box trailer via a trailer in between, and with another trailer on the back.

I want to see this guys reverse skills.
YouTube

Originally Posted by rammypluge

A good way to get better at reversing something is to learn to reverse something more difficult. Your standard is set by the hardest thing you can back well. Anything easier is then a cinch.

Hardest thing I ever reversed was a covered 7x5 trailer behind a 12 metre coach. By the time it appeared in the mirrors it was already too late. I hated golf trips.

One thing I used to do was reverse a Floatliner trailer with glass. Accuracy outside of 10mm was unacceptable. It should be easy, but visibility was poor, so you had to rely on the frame being placed with precision, which was rare, and back along a painted line which was faded, or wet, or under yellow lights, or all three. Still, no doubles there, thank ****.

Originally Posted by Lewy110

I want to see this guys reverse skills.
YouTube

Break out the popcorn and beer. Oh, and a chair.

My wife drove my car with a 7x5 trailer on back to the shops one day.
She went to the end of the small carpark (dead end) and then tried a really hard U turn. Could not make it so reversed
She locked up this baby so good i almost took the trailer off to get it out! Took me around 30 bites to get the bugger around hahahahah.
She was so upset and scared. Poor girl also drove the same trailer on a house move for my brother and had a tyre go lol.

She absolutely detests trailers now and wont tow at all.

Originally Posted by DAMINK

My wife drove my car with a 7x5 trailer on back to the shops one day.
She went to the end of the small carpark (dead end) and then tried a really hard U turn. Could not make it so reversed
She locked up this baby so good i almost took the trailer off to get it out! Took me around 30 bites to get the bugger around hahahahah.
She was so upset and scared. Poor girl also drove the same trailer on a house move for my brother and had a tyre go lol.

She absolutely detests trailers now and wont tow at all.

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