Date:         Mon, 5 Jun 2006 12:24:56 -0700
Reply-To:     Robert Fisher <refisher@MCHSI.COM>
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From:         Robert Fisher <refisher@MCHSI.COM>
Subject:      Re: Motor Scooter hung off backside?
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I wasn't thinking you were a wuss... 'tho I might have been thinking you
were implying your Vgon was a wuss, at least when it comes to towing. Wasn't
trying to imply you were the guy in the Miller Light commercial.. : ) Mostly
it seemed like it was more length or weight that you wanted on your van.
I do know what you mean about SoCal, as that's (technically) where I live-
they build the subdivisions up here the same way, even 'tho there's lots of
room and no need for it.
The HF trailer I have is the half-ton, which has a tilt bed, and it folds in
half... if you construct your add-ons properly you can maintain the folding
ability, tho I didn't. It would go through the gate that way but it wouldn't
be that easy to move sideways. I guess I'd either make a variation on a
furniture dolly so I could wheel it around or widen my gate.

Cya,
Robert

----- Original Message -----
From: "Mike Elliott" <j.michael.elliott@GMAIL.COM>
To: <vanagon@GERRY.VANAGON.COM>
Sent: Monday, June 05, 2006 7:18 AM
Subject: Re: Motor Scooter hung off backside?


> On 6/4/2006 4:20 PM Robert Fisher wrote:
>> I have the 8' trailer, and as for it being 'more than you want to deal
>> with', it really isn't that 'much' to begin with.
> Aw shucks, I see that when I wrote that an 8-foot trailer was more than
> we want to deal with, I came across sounding like a total wuss. I used
> to tow a pretty little 21' Airstream trailer with a little Ford Explorer
> in an earlier life. This was before Explorers were inflated to today's
> bulky Sta-Puft size. So maneuvering a dinky 8-footer doesn't bother me.
>
> Think is, whatever I use will need to be one-man stand-uppable and
> one-man slide-sideways-able into the back yard through the gate in the
> fence. Those of you who have never see the tiny lots our So. California
> houses are built on won't understand when I say that we don't have the
> room in the front yard, driveway, or street to store even an 8-foot
> trailer without it looking like the Beverly Hillbillies moved into the
> neighborhood.
> --
>
> Mike "Rocket J Squirrel" Elliott
> 71 Type 2: the Wonderbus
> 84 Westfalia: Mellow Yellow ("The Electrical Banana")
> KG6RCR