"TO tow or not to tow, that is the question"

[Al Scudder]

I guess that I will have to get into WakMart parking area and practice that ......after I take up my rugs, toys, bbq, roll up the old awnings....watch out don't run over the sludge from the pump out ......just kidding....I am a kidder ya no.



Scooter 2000LX Ocqueoc, MI

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To: WanderlodgeForum@yahoogroups.com
From: bluethunder@...
Date: Tue, 19 May 2009 11:02:11 -0700
Subject: RE: [WanderlodgeForum] Re: "TO tow or not to tow, that is the question"

In the first couple of months of my Motorhome experience, seven years ago, I got myself badly angled into the lane at a Canadian border crossing. I told them I couldn't back up attached, and they had to close down that lane while we unhooked the toad.

In other words, I bought into the CAN NOT back up on a Toad education.

Since then I've backed a toad many, many times. Sometimes short, sometimes 50 feet or more. My Sterling tow bar is just fine, as are the vehicles that were pushed. It helps to understand the process and try to back on the same curve to keep the toad steer tires from turning against the caster, but I've even backed with toad tires fully swung sideways, slowly skidding them (on a loose surface). Sometimes you just have to do what you have to do!

Don Bradner
90 PT40 "Blue Thunder"
My location: http://www.bbirdmaps.com/user2.cfm?user=1

On 5/19/2009 at 11:28 AM Al Scudder wrote:

>Fred is right you CAN NOT back up on a Toad.