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I already got stuck in mud once... But got out once I figured out how to use the truck and locked the diff.

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Ignoramus10043
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They are awesome, but they do not do titles.

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Ignoramus10043

If you approach this project in the same way you approach everything else, I fully expect to see "Iggy's Driving School" signs on that tractor very soon. :)

I hope you are parking it in the space formerly taken by the concrete truck.

--Winston

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Winston

The concrete guys are my neighbors, and I allow them to park their trucks on my property, near the fence. I did get them to sign a paper stating that they are parking with my permission, which can be revoked at any time.

I park my semi tractor in front of the building, where I have a lot of room. My land goes up to the telephone pole on the left:

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Ignoramus10043

Backing downhill around a corner in the rain after dark with a trailer is when it gets truly interesting.

-- Never trouble another for what you can do for yourself. -- Thomas Jefferson

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Larry Jaques

Not for me, man!

--Winston

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Winston

You bet, it will be. I will practice at least 20 minutes every day.

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Ignoramus31868

Backing a trailer straight across an open parking lot is a challenge for me.

jsw

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Jim Wilkins

It's hard to reverse your thinking and drive counterintuitively, isn't it? "To move the trailer to the right, turn the steering wheel to the left." Then I look at double and triple trailers and get all goosey.

-- Never trouble another for what you can do for yourself. -- Thomas Jefferson

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Larry Jaques

For me the worst one was trying to taxi a Cessna 152 with the toe brakes. I can't leave a straight wake behind a sailboat either.

jsw

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Jim Wilkins

I give lots of room and respect to semis backing into driveways in traffic. It is very rare to see them take more than just one try. I couldn't do that to save my life.

--Winston

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Winston

I do not think that you can back up with doubles or triples.

I do back up fine with a trailer when I can turn my head around and look back. But I cannot do it with mirrors. I think, that it would take a day of practice to get it.

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Ignoramus31868

I never had trouble taxiing - left brake =3D turn left, right brake =3D turn right. The "problem" I had with cessnas is the blasted rear-view mirror. A minute after takeoff, looking in the mirror SHOULD show the runway right behind you. Never happened for me - it was always off to one side or the other. Of course this wasn't the plane's fault, but if it didn't have that blasted mirror, I never would have known ;-)

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rangerssuck

In Germany I had to be checked out on Army vehicles to get a driver's license for my VW. Our small experimental unit didn't have a truck so the instructor just checked it off, as he was due out soon and didn't care 'bout nothin nohow anyway.

At my next duty station they saw the license and sent me out solo in a Deuce to drive 100 miles on unfamiliar roads after dark, to retrieve our gear. The best I can say is that I caused no personal injury or property damage.

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Jim Wilkins

You'd get it. Every RC pilot has to overcome the same thing, apparent reversal of inputs when the plane's coming at you instead of going away. Simulators are invaluable (far cheaper to hit reset instead of the walk of shame with the garbage bag) for getting over that particular hump. Are there any for semi's?

Pete Keillor

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Pete Keillor

I thought ground taxi was done with rudders, not toe brakes?

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For me the worst one was trying to taxi a Cessna 152 with the toe brakes. I can't leave a straight wake behind a sailboat either.

jsw

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Stormin Mormon

I've heard people say similar things about fire trucks. I'm sure you have a natural talent for driving, and that everything worked out, some how.

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In Germany I had to be checked out on Army vehicles to get a driver's license for my VW. Our small experimental unit didn't have a truck so the instructor just checked it off, as he was due out soon and didn't care 'bout nothin nohow anyway.

At my next duty station they saw the license and sent me out solo in a Deuce to drive 100 miles on unfamiliar roads after dark, to retrieve our gear. The best I can say is that I caused no personal injury or property damage.

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Stormin Mormon

I didn't do 'gradual' either. :)

My first experience with larger equipment was with a rental bobtail I used to move my kid brother from San Francisco to L.A.

460 miles in one day. Man, was I ever tired!

--Winston

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Winston

That's easy. Now if you stick a couple of dollies in there and a couple more trailers it gets fun. Especially if the trailers are pups!

Back when I took my road test you could tell folks who had practice with trailers real quick. The straight line and parallel parking didn't bother them. I could understand the straight line but the parallel part never made much sense, In all the year I've driven I have yet to park a rig that way. Think it would make more sense to do a blind side dock approach.

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Steve W.

Sure you could, the longer the trailer the easier it is to back up. Unless you're driving a stretched west coast style rig.

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Steve W.

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