I have yet to see a youtube video with a small Asian woman setting up a tripod, setting a concrete monument or cutting line; maintaining what little out of date view of masculinity I have left. Hope my honest respect for women, stature and nationality doesn’t get me booted.
@holy-cow smaller trailers are for sure tougher and tend to react much quicker.
I suck at backing a trailer. Luckily, when I owned a boat, we had a camp where I could launch from the property, and didn't have to go to the public launch. Somehow, I could back up no problem there - no pressure or watchers
With a boat dock there is a fairly wide area in which to be successful. Backing a stock trailer so that one rear corner or the other is within a few inches of a specific target and more or less square is much tougher, especially with witnesses. This is a standard situation when picking up livestock purchased at an auction. The added fun is that you must do this between other trailers that have been backed up to load their purchases, so you not only have to be precise, you must do this for quite some distance due to the length of those trailers and the trucks attached.
When I was a teenager helping on my grandparents farm they told me to back an articulated tractor with a cultivator on it up to a tree row. It was accidentally simple because the extra bend in the machinery allowed right turns to go right and left turns left.
A couple years ago the survey outfit I worked for had an ATV trailer that they would keep in a garage. The PC was having a hell of a time backing it in and asked for volunteer help. I couldn't figure it out after several tries either.
That bottom of steering wheel trick is genius though; I'm definitely gonna try that.
@holy-cow when the crowd gathers it is all over but the crying. As long as know one is watching it goes smoothly. As soon as one spectator shows up. I just give the truck and trailer or tractor and wagon to my daughter lol. Because i will fail.
Can I back a trailer Yes. Can I do it well No. Seems like each occasion is a learning experience.
My 16-foot cattle trailer has returned to the south half of my carport. My farm helper brought it back from the field a few minutes ago and backed it in precisely on the first try. No problem whatsoever. I would have taken a minimum of two attempts, usually three, to achieve the same result. Only six inches to spare between the roof of the trailer and the sheetrock ceiling. Roughly a foot to spare on either side.
