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Mate had one and worked fine. It was a replacement jockey wheel type. Not sure how one would cope with anything other than level ground though. I've seen people use ride on mowers to move caravans.
they can be ok but not as good as main wheel drive types which is why you hardly see them now, if you have a heavy trailer and its wet movement can be interesting and slow and sometimes non existent
What do you tow with ? if you can make a front removable hitch for your tow vehicle its a doddle.
What do you tow with ? if you can make a front removable hitch for your tow vehicle its a doddle.
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I tow with a xlwb sprinter and it's not usually a problem but out road isn't very wide and people park anywhere without thinking.
I've always got in but sometimes it's a pain not being able to lock over because folk have parked everywhere.
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Personally I’d be looking to adapt a caravan type mover to fit on your trailer. I have a fairly heavy caravan & similarly helpful neighbours. With the mover it’s a piece of cake to manoeuvre the van through my relatively narrow driveway.
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That looks a darn sight better than the jockey wheel type my mate had.
In fact that looks like the ones used to move small aircraft about
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I made a similar one once.
Trouble with that type is they need a lot of nose weight to work well, the bigger the tyres the less grip on wet concrete/tarmac, also four wheel trailers need the front pair of wheels up clear of the ground to steer easily.
Most likely fine on the dry/flat but the slightest slope or unevenness, especially when turning will stop them dead.
If a scooter can be made into one, it would be simple enough to put a trolley jack on top of it and mount the ball on that.
Tried a Mr.Shifta on a small single axle caravan some years ago. okay on flat, useless at getting it up a low dropped kerb, no chance at all of an incline. Simply couldn't get enough nose weight on it to make it grip, or make is stable enough to drive if it did happen to grip.
permanent mover bolted to chassis driving on the wheels works really well - sometimes struggled on a twin axle if the non-driven wheel took the load off the driven wheel - for which the solution is two movers, one on each axle . . . 4WD caravan . . .
permanent mover bolted to chassis driving on the wheels works really well - sometimes struggled on a twin axle if the non-driven wheel took the load off the driven wheel - for which the solution is two movers, one on each axle . . . 4WD caravan . . .
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A different approach, have you got somewhere to fit a "hardpoint" on the drive then use a cheap battery powered winch to pull the trailer on.
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I ripped the mower deck and gubbins off a westwood sit on mower for the girls to tow a sand grader around the school, plenty of grunt and has slow/creeper speed, leccy start with forward and reverse. Decent strip of steel behind the seat to weld/bodge a towball too. Just thoughts
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I wouldn't be any better off doing this as I'd still have no lock to get in, diving the van in forward is tight without a trailer attached.You could always use a front towball - seen plenty on Land Rovers but never a standard car before!
