Why Can't We Use Trailers Like This?

[mapper]

Steerable farm wagons are a bit tricky to back up. I worked at a nursery when I was in high school that used one for steam sterilizing potting soil. One of my jobs was to back it down the alleyway between the glass greenhouses, which had obstacles such as pallets of clay pots along them. It would have been much easier if the swinging drawbar on the tractor had not been missing its locking pin
I don't remember ever causing any damage but there were a few close calls.

 

[Cataclysm]

I've always wondered why we can't pull trailers like the second one in the picture with our cars and pickups. They seem to work fine behind big rigs. Anybody know why?

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Trailers with a steer axle can road walk pretty bad if not properly maintained.

 

[Sawyer Rob]

I have NO problem backing up a wagon at all,

but two of them is quite a bit tougher!!

SR

 

[Xfaxman]

Try backing 4 trailers!

 

[lostcreekranch]

Try backing 4 trailers!

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Now you're just playing with us Xfax.

 

[Egon]

I've always wondered why we can't pull trailers like the second one in the picture with our cars and pickups. They seem to work fine behind big rigs. Anybody know why?

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You can. Just have regulations to follow.
[video]https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/B-train[/video]

 

[M5farms]

At the beginning of peanut season every yr it's not uncommon to see 4 to 6 empty 4 wheel peanut wagons behind a truck headed to the fields . 2 is normal loaded or empty

 

[lostcreekranch]

I'll see your four and raise you 30.

 

[Xfaxman]

Now you're just playing with us Xfax.

Yep, I can't push those 4 back very far.

But if I remove the garden cart, I can do pretty good. :thumbsup:

 

[Sawyer Rob]

Try backing 4 trailers!

THAT's not so bad, they are "trailers" NOT "wagons"... Not to mention you are turned around pushing them, that's a lot easier...

SR