RE: How did you learn to back up the camper?

[Kelly]

 goose

 

ORIGINAL:  goose
 
 
 [font=" Times New Roman" ]Maybe I m speaking only for myself here, but what would us  early-arrivers  do for entertainment if y all read/remembered the hints posted above, and everyone was able to back up smoothly? [/font] []
 

 [font=" comic sans ms" ]You d make your " other half"  give it a try!! []
 Of course in your case it wouldn t be so entertaining ~ cuz " I know I can!!"   LOL [][/font]

[wynot]

 whippetwrun

Now I back the popup into the garage on my own while DH is at work

 Didja ever get the hitch ball deal worked out?

[whippetwrun]

 wynot

 

ORIGINAL:  wynot
 
 

Now I back the popup into the garage on my own while DH is at work

 Didja ever get the hitch ball deal worked out?
 

 I think so - the last I backed in I had no problem.  I just added extra grease to the ball for the ride home.  We ll see if that continues to help once we get back to camping.
 

[MommaMia]

 Red neff Barchetta
Lots of good hints here!
 
 One thing that always got me nerved up was knowing other people were watching me.  I would get so worried about what they must be thinking as I went back and forth, back and forth, making small corrections to get it just right without kissing a tree!  I got so focused on them watching that it would end up taking me twice as long to get it right.
 
 So my piece of advice is to try to forget that anyone is watching.  It will just jangle your nerves.
 
 

[kitphantom]

 C. Hains
The " clock-method"  I found on the PUT site a couple of years ago works for me, DH does not use it.  We went over to the church parking lot when we knew it d be empty, and practiced.  We used the parking lines for practice, as well as the basketball post.  As someone else commented, I m rusty at this point, but it ll come back with a little practice.  My suggestion is that you get comfortable on level ground, then, if you can find a safe place to practice with some slope, try that.  On my first " solo"  trip (A friend & I took her dau. on a ladies only trip), our second site required backing up into the site, the combination of a standard shift car, backing uphill, with the parking pad at an angle from the road (which is curved anyway) was interesting.  We ended up circling around the loop twice before I was successful, since having cars wait for me to park just added to the fun, there isn t passing room on the cg loop.  The bonus of our tiny PU is that we only have to get it close, then can adjust by hand, so once we got the thing up the hill,  we just pushed it so it was positioned better.  (Actually, in most sites we can swing it around in most any direction, so can place the door wherever we like.)
 DH hit a tree with a corner of the PU last year, again dealing with a slope in the site, road crown added to gravel road and odd angles.  Lesson learned, I need to get out to help " spot" ; in this case the DH was backing up fine, the PU just unexpectedly misbehaved on the combination of surfaces. The light cover needed to be replaced anyway (we re doing a major renovation).