Date:         Thu, 10 Jun 2010 17:59:38 -0700
Reply-To:     Alistair Bell <albell@SHAW.CA>
Sender:       Vanagon Mailing List <vanagon@gerry.vanagon.com>
From:         Alistair Bell <albell@SHAW.CA>
Subject:      Re: The name of this kind of thing?
Comments: To: "Mike \"Rocket J Squirrel\"" <camping.elliott@GMAIL.COM>
In-Reply-To:  <4C1187C8.6060701@gmail.com>
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ooh ooh please sir, pick me!


I have one!


2 wheels on short axle, then a long curved box section ending at the
far end in a t handle, and at the short end... a hitch ball!


want pics?


alistair


On 10-Jun-10, at 5:48 PM, Mike Rocket J Squirrel wrote:

I have a little trailer I take camping.* It's a little too heavy to move
by hand (titanium knee, etc., etc.) so when I get back from trips I have
to back it up behind the Vanagon**, over a small curb, and down a little
slope to park it. To do so, I have to block traffic on the busy street
in front of our house. I am not a confident or skilled trailer
backer-upper and trying to do that maneuver swiftly and well while cars
are waiting just isn't going very well for me.

So I wonder if there is some kind of dolly with a trailer ball on top, a
wheel or two, and a handle? Something that would let me wrangle the
thing into its parking place like a little red wagon? If so, what are
such things called?

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* Picture here:
<http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_XFS952PUlmQ/TBA8o-v0viI/AAAAAAAACV8/
gXos84XiSf8/s1600/IMG_1504.JPG>

** VC

--
Mike "Rocket J Squirrel" Elliott
84 Westfalia: Mellow Yellow ("The Electrical Banana")
74 Westrailia: (Ladybug Trailer company, San Juan Capistrano, Calif.)
Bend, OR
KG6RCR