High Clearance Vehicles - Advantages

[RWebb]

https://www.liveleak.com/view?t=CqBK8_1602531105

[wdfifteen]

Check the “breaks.” I don’t think this guy caught any.

[URY914]

A guy could spend hours watching stupid people on LiveLeak.
Much better than YouTube.

[masraum]

Where the Fark was that guy when the thing started rolling? If he was under it, how'd he end up so far back?

[MBAtarga]

I think he "slid" down the driveway with it for a while. It seems when he pops out eventually his body was just slowing down from sliding.

[masraum]

Originally Posted by MBAtarga

I think he "slid" down the driveway with it for a while. It seems when he pops out eventually his body was just slowing down from sliding.

He's lucky it's got tall tires. It would have sucked to have the pumpkin/axle rake over your ass!

[David]

Reminds me of the time I forgot to put my ‘76 Civic into gear while I ran back in the house to get something. I came out to the driveway where my car had been a few minutes earlier and was sure someone had stolen it until I looked across the cul-de-sac and saw it sitting un damaged in the neighbors yard between a tree and kids playhouse.

[Porsche-O-Phile]

Better still - I can grab a couple of beers and go hang around at the public boat ramp nearby. Nonstop free entertainment all afternoon. You think people in cars do dumb stuff? They’ve got nothing on boat guys. I literally watched one guy (attempting to be a hotshot and power his boat onto the trailer instead of winching it up) put it through the trailer post, pickup tailgate and cab back window (wrecked the bow, most of the front of the hull and bashed up the back of the pickup cab pretty good. Obviously the trailer was pretty messed up too. Probably a $15,000 “whoopsie”... maybe more. People were roaring out loud laughing. Couldn’t help myself either. Drew quite the crowd... Then you get the guys that back down the ramp too far, occasional “forgot-to-set-the-brakes” (glug glug) probably a couple times a year, the numerous fallers-in, the “float-always” (and “frantic swimmer-afters”) It’s good fun for the whole family!

[rfuerst911sc]

I have to agree on the boat ramp , just watching most folks try to back in is worth the price of admission . Husband/wife or boyfriend/girlfriend are great to watch as it usually ends up in comic relief with lots of yelling and hand gestures . And that's just putting the boat in the water !

[Rikao4]

Originally Posted by David

Reminds me of the time I forgot to put my ‘76 Civic into gear while I ran back in the house to get something. I came out to the driveway where my car had been a few minutes earlier and was sure someone had stolen it until I looked across the cul-de-sac and saw it sitting un damaged in the neighbors yard between a tree and kids playhouse.

did the same with Mom's Cortina (British Ford)..
ran into the house..
came back WTF it's gone..
luckily crashing into a T pole down our steep hill just before main road..
just short of totaled..
which we managed to do a few weeks later..
Sis got T-boned...and I rear ended...
tough little car..

Rika

[GH85Carrera]

Originally Posted by Porsche-O-Phile

Better still - I can grab a couple of beers and go hang around at the public boat ramp nearby. Nonstop free entertainment all afternoon. You think people in cars do dumb stuff? They’ve got nothing on boat guys. I literally watched one guy (attempting to be a hotshot and power his boat onto the trailer instead of winching it up) put it through the trailer post, pickup tailgate and cab back window (wrecked the bow, most of the front of the hull and bashed up the back of the pickup cab pretty good. Obviously the trailer was pretty messed up too. Probably a $15,000 “whoopsie”... maybe more. People were roaring out loud laughing. Couldn’t help myself either. Drew quite the crowd... Then you get the guys that back down the ramp too far, occasional “forgot-to-set-the-brakes” (glug glug) probably a couple times a year, the numerous fallers-in, the “float-always” (and “frantic swimmer-afters”) It’s good fun for the whole family!

Went to the river to see my parents launch their new bass boat for it's maiden voyage. Dad was waiting for a couple to launch their boat. The man was backing the Caddy up as the woman was holding the rope to the boat. He backed it far enough to float the boat, but the tailpipe was under water. The engine died and he was having a challenge to get it to start with the tailpipe in the water. So he decided to pour gas into the carb, (it was the 1970s) and that caught the engine on fire. Every boat has a fire extinguisher, but few people will use their own fire extinguisher to put out an idiots fire. I put down my camera, and ran out to the guys boat, grabbed his fire extinguisher and put out his car. Of course it was not going to run anymore. So one guy waiting to launch used his truck to pull the Caddy out of the way so everyone else could launch. The entire time the lady just stood there like a statue on the dock holding the rope to the boat. I guess she had no idea how to tie a knot and help with the fire.

[sammyg2]

Originally Posted by Porsche-O-Phile

Better still - I can grab a couple of beers and go hang around at the public boat ramp nearby. Nonstop free entertainment all afternoon.

More than once, I've walked up to a guy trying to launch a boat at the ramp and said move over, I'll do it. Usually after the third or fourth jack-knife. that's all I can take.

[onewhippedpuppy]

As an avid boater I would agree, few places more amusing than a boat ramp. Upon purchasing our first boat we had someone tell us, “if your marriage can survive a boat ramp it can survive anything”. Words of wisdom...

[stevej37]

As a kid, working on the neighbors farm, I learned how to back up a hay wagon with no problem.
But now, trying to back-up a tow dolly with a car on it, I have a real problem. I prob just need more practice.

[masraum]

It's easy. Back it up and turn the wheel the opposite direction that you need the trailer to go, until you need to spin it back to go the same direction that you want to go, then you should do that. You may need to alternate between the right direction and the wrong direction until the trailer goes the correct direction.

[stevej37]

Yeah right. That works for a four wheel hay wagon...which I can do easily.
Have you ever backed up a tow dolly with a car on the dolly?

[john70t]

Originally Posted by sammyg2

More than once, I've walked up to a guy trying to launch a boat at the ramp and said move over, I'll do it. Usually after the third or fourth jack-knife. that's all I can take.

Instructions on backing:
1). Put a piece of tape at the 6 o'clock of the steering wheel. Right next to those man cards

2). Back up slowly.
Tell any non-helpful yellers to STFU. You are the captain.
(but keep them on the scope and check for debris beforehand)
If people are being rude and distractive, fk 'em.

3). Looking in your left mirror, push the virtual tape at the bottom of the wheel in the direction the boat needs to go.
Slow down and correct at the pivot point.

4). If it tweeks out of line STOP.
Go forward twenty feet. Try again when everything is straight again.

That is the formula I learned daily to flip 28'-45'-54' trailers in line with only a foot or two clearance on either side.

A few times the 54' trailer needed to be tucked tight to a walkway inside a black hole with no visual references at all.
I got it mostly right. But then I was corrected by the real pros.

You have made it when you can slam on the brakes and set it into position perfect on full throttle in one shot without a second thought.

Until then.....take it slow and easy.

[GH85Carrera]

At my first job the boss had a trailer hitch on the front and the back of his Ford Bronco. With the front hitch it was easy to get his trailer parked where he wanted it.

[URY914]

Short trailers can be very hard to back up properly. The key is to go very slow.

[stevej37]

^^^ plus the pan on a tow dolly swivels as you back-up. It's not like an ordinary two axle trailer.
If the pan, which holds the front axle of the car, could be locked in so that it didn't swivel, it would be much easier to back them up.