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4570Man · Jan 18, 2016

CDN Farm Boy said:
You never tried to back up a wagon? It shouldn't be tough at all to back up this setup.

You ever tried to back up a wagon with a box truck. Way harder than a tractor or regular pickup.

TomSeller · Jan 18, 2016

4570Man said:
You ever tried to back up a wagon with a box truck. Way harder than a tractor or regular pickup.

Not to mention the second swivel point on the gooseneck. Yikes! Yes, backing that up would be difficult

CDN Farm Boy · Jan 19, 2016

4570Man said:
You ever tried to back up a wagon with a box truck. Way harder than a tractor or regular pickup.

Can't say that I have with a box truck. I have done it lots with pickup with the box stacked with 60 small bales of hay hanging out over the edge forcing you to use the mirrors. Also done the tractor/baler/wagon combo many times.

TomSeller said:
Not to mention the second swivel point on the gooseneck. Yikes! Yes, backing that up would be difficult

That was my point of a wagon, 2 pivots... 1 pivot at the hitch, 1 at the steering. Slow and steady. Difficult bordering on impossible for average folk but should be easy for the average farmer. I guess you guys have never watched a transport driver back up a set of B Trains either.

NS Gearhead · Jan 20, 2016

Got greedy and tired to get 1.5 loads of green birch out of the woods in 1. Made it too top heavy and over she went when the left side tire dipped in a hole.

NS Gearhead · Jan 20, 2016

Bent hitch is all it did. Still worked fine.

bcp · Jan 20, 2016

Sometimes, in rough country, you have a side dump trailer.

Bruce

joefromga · Jan 20, 2016

bcp said:
Sometimes, in rough country, you have a side dump trailer.

Bruce

Whether you know it or not!

tcartwri · Jan 21, 2016

From the Alberta CVE Facebook page.... warning, you will lose a good part of your day looking through their pictures.

www.facebook.com/AlbertaCVE/

Truck was over by 290 Kg, Trailer was over by 3270 Kg....