Posted by redforlife on September 06, 2023 at 07:09:16 from (174.213.212.52):
In Reply to: Gooseneck Trailer posted by super99 on September 06, 2023 at 04:37:00:
It's ussually not hard to find a center point in a tail gate just by how it was made. If you can get good enough to be right at that point (when trailer hitch is over center of tail gate), then it's just a matter of backing straight up. I had a job one time where I often times had to hook up trailers by myself using thier pick-ups. Of course they didn't have all the paint and cameras, so I had to come up with a simplified way. So that's kind of how I came up with focusing on the center point of the tail gate, and then continuing on straight back from that.
Crossover tool boxes and extended cabs are really what's murder when hooking up goosenecks. Avoiding having both of them options when it comes to a gooseneck pulling truck, is tremendously helpful. That's why I prefer a regular cab. And I haven't done crossover tool boxes in years.
If I'm caught in a situation where cross over tool boxes and an extended cab is involved, I simple place an empty pop can on the center point of tail gate. You can ussually see the pop can if you can't see nothing else. And that puts you back into the same scenario I mentioned. And it doesn't matter if the trailer hits the pop can. If the hitch knocks the can over and out of sight, it don't matter. The cans use for a guide is pretty much over at that point anyways. So it really don't get knocked out of sight until your at the point of not needing it anymore anyways. I ussually just don't even figure on retrieving the pop can until actually hooking up the trailer anyways. Your gonna be out of the truck for that regardless of can or no can.
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