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  • Original Poster
    #21
    Originally posted by Twisted River View Post
    If you didn't have bushes and kept going you won't get straighter, you'll only close the angle of truck and trailer more and result in a jackknife.
    Can you fix jacknife without pulling forward?
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    • #22
      Practice, practice, practice.

      A common mistake, especially with a short trailer, is to oversteer the truck. Ideally, it's best to make the steering adjustments in small, smooth increments. Turn the wheel a little to change the direction of the trailer, then straighten the wheel to follow the trailer back. Turn the wheel, then follow it back. Repeat as needed.

      There is a certain satisfaction when somebody asks (doubtfully) if you can put the trailer in a certain spot, and you can get it there to the inch in one shot.
      Last edited by MHM; Sep. 22, 2013, 09:04 PM.

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      • Original Poster
        #23
        Update I have gone alot of places for trails rides this fall & Ive noticed Im much better at backing/parking, I may have to pull up once but I can put it nostly within 2 feet of where i want, now to learn how to back strait down a long drive way LOL. I think thats harder than parking or maybe I just need practice, thanks for all the tips Ive learned that small adj are better like someone said. But its hard to do that when you have to move your truck the other way to stop going one direction right?
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        • #24
          Originally posted by JohnDeere View Post
          Update I have gone alot of places for trails rides this fall & Ive noticed Im much better at backing/parking, I may have to pull up once but I can put it nostly within 2 feet of where i want, now to learn how to back strait down a long drive way LOL. I think thats harder than parking or maybe I just need practice, thanks for all the tips Ive learned that small adj are better like someone said. But its hard to do that when you have to move your truck the other way to stop going one direction right?
          Backing straight is one of those moments when you absolutely HAVE to stare straight ahead out the windshield and use ONLY your mirrors....resist that urge to turn around and look!

          Figure out where the center of the steering wheel is; when I was learning, it really helped me to put a loop of electrical tape on the steering wheel where "straight" is. That way, I could make sure that that tape was in the right place and know that my vehicle's wheels were straight....and that theoretically means a straight trailer!

          I learned in a Suburban too, and feel your pain. Although everything else feels easy now! I haul with a long-bed crew cab 3500 now, and it's amazing what having that open bed does for my entirely placebo-based comfort level.

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          • #25
            Once you have jack-knifed you have to pull forwards out of it.


            OK. Rule #1. DH goes in house and stays the hell in there away from the windows until you are all done...

            I have a sharp right angle with a banked slope on it that I have to back through to park my trailer at home. Fun times. Oh, and there's a ditch at the back and side of my designated spot.

            I find that I have to wind my window down, stick my head out and watch exactly where the trailer wheels are going, then I can make the turn slow and gradual enough to achieve success.

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            • Original Poster
              #26
              Well that might work is the driveway was really strait but it curves just a tiny bit so I learned real quick how to pull forward & make small adjustments, I do use the mirrors since windowing doesnt work for me unless Im cranking it somewhere which doesnt happen much as it jacks on me way to easy. DH says Im better at backing than he is but hes just saying that, he drove our camper for years which is longer. At least when it jacks its pretty easy to fix, so far I havent gotten somewhere that I couldnt move around except the drive thru at Arbys. LOL Hung the wheel on the curb but no horses in it so no damage done.
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              • #27
                There is a "point of no return" when backing a trailer. A sharp angle at which no opposite steering input will have any effect and you will start to jack knife. Don't try to back up with that much angle. Pull forward to straigten out a bit and try again. When I am backing around a curve, I think about setting up the angle between my truck and trailer that will take it smoothly around the curve theen straightening my wheels out a bit to maintain that angle as I back. If you don't straighten out the wheel a bit you will angle too much and hit the point at which opposite input does nothing. Pull forward to straighten and try again.
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                • #28
                  I just sold my Suburban and short 2H BP so I feel your pain. I can't tell you how many times I got laughed at trying to back that effing thing up to park it. The part about overcorrecting with the truck is the key point.

                  But then again you are talking to someone who can barely back her own car down my fairly straight driveway. I'm reverse impaired for some reason!

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