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Can you knit a sweater too?
No, but I can sew does that count?
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No, but I can sew does that count?
johnday
The Crazy Scot, #3
Ah, taint gunna be war. Just tugging some strings is all. Jan and I are both good cooks, she can sew and knit, carryon an intelligent conversion, etc, etc, etc. She just has trouble backing down a loaded truck. Come to think of it, her brother can't back down his short bed, single cab Dodge, with nothing hooked up! 
And yes WW, sewing does count!!
And yes WW, sewing does count!!
Out of necessity I got my wife to pull the boat trailer home once we've launched the boat (2 miles).
Our launching procedure goes something like this: I'll back the boat most of the way in the water. Then I get on the boat and she backs the remaining 5 to 10 ft. I have it set so she just backs straight without turning either direction. Then I start the boat, she backs me in a few more feet till I'm floating then off she goes taking the trailer home. She drove our full size van in the early ninties so she is used to large vehicles. Once home she doesn't have to back at all, just pull the trailer into the side yard. Then she hops on the ATV and meets me at the docks. Works for us, and gets us on the water sooner, rather than waiting on help to launch da boat.
Our launching procedure goes something like this: I'll back the boat most of the way in the water. Then I get on the boat and she backs the remaining 5 to 10 ft. I have it set so she just backs straight without turning either direction. Then I start the boat, she backs me in a few more feet till I'm floating then off she goes taking the trailer home. She drove our full size van in the early ninties so she is used to large vehicles. Once home she doesn't have to back at all, just pull the trailer into the side yard. Then she hops on the ATV and meets me at the docks. Works for us, and gets us on the water sooner, rather than waiting on help to launch da boat.
bczoom said:???
A minute ago it was 2 miles.
Ahhh, why did you put your dock so far away? Is that where the garage is to park your cars as well?
Ahhh, it is still 2 miles for the distance to the launch ramp, I drive to the ramp and we launch the boat, then she has to return to the house and meet me at the dock which is 3/4 miles over our trails and through the woods.
Our property in SE Ohio is much like WV in that it is very hilly. It's a big 50 acre rectangle 1100 feet wide x ???? long; but it is 3/4 of a crooked mile to the dock. We could not even walk from one end to the other when we bought it. The ravines and multiflora had taken over. We had a oil well road and deer trails to work with. Much to our dismay we had to settle and build closer to the road. The dock is 3/4 mile away because that is where the river is. We can look down a ravine and see the river from our back door this time of year. When the greenery comes it blocks that view.
Clear as mud????
edited to correct my misspoken lot size.
It's 50 acres and it is 1100 ft wide. The trail does not go as a bird flys, remember the hills / ravines. 3/4 mile is the distance on the odometer.
Not an option to leave the truck at the launch ramp. This is a private campground. We pay an annual fee to use the launch ramp. Besides at the end of the day we want to end up at the dock, and we have the ATV to take us home. I know it sounds confusing but we have it worked out purty slick.
Not an option to leave the truck at the launch ramp. This is a private campground. We pay an annual fee to use the launch ramp. Besides at the end of the day we want to end up at the dock, and we have the ATV to take us home. I know it sounds confusing but we have it worked out purty slick.
caeryon
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Hey! I've seen men who couldn't figure that one out either. We watched a vintage tractor show on tv t'other day where one of the competitions was to back a trailer down a lane, and half the guys took out more than a few of the cones marking the sides of the track. Heaven help 'em if they'd had to turn the thing! :StickOutT
When we were younger we bought a pop up camper. When we got home from a week-end of camping, I kid you not, it used to take us at lest a half an hour to back the trailor up a 50ft driveway, and then make a 90 degree turn to tuck it in a parking slot.
He would drive, I would direct, then I would drive and he would direct. This only lasted one year. The following year we rented a permenent campsite and then never moved the darn thing. Moved up to a regualr full sized camper and when we changed campgrounds we had the new campground owner go pick up and move our camper. That was 20 years ago and neither one of us has ever pulled a trailor and driven again. If we needed to move something we rented trucks. Hey it is HARD to back up a trailor!
He would drive, I would direct, then I would drive and he would direct. This only lasted one year. The following year we rented a permenent campsite and then never moved the darn thing. Moved up to a regualr full sized camper and when we changed campgrounds we had the new campground owner go pick up and move our camper. That was 20 years ago and neither one of us has ever pulled a trailor and driven again. If we needed to move something we rented trucks. Hey it is HARD to back up a trailor!