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Jax365

06/6/2011 at 11:25am
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A great renovation, Colin! I'm also in the North West, not far from Congleton or Crewe... if you're not too far away, would you like to have a go with my Mr Shifta and see if it will do the job? It's supposed to be able to pull a caravan like yours - however, the chap I bought it from had an enormous caravan which he had to pull off his drive up an enormous slope and the Shifta wouldn't do it, that;s why he was selling it.

Forgot to add - the chap I bought it from was having an electric winch put in. Probably your best option!

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jhsw

06/6/2011 at 10:47pm
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Hi Colin,Have norrow steep drive where van stored, and unable to walk the van up,had mover fitted. A great renovation on your van,its looking great,well worth all the hard work put into it.

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colin51

10/6/2011 at 12:11am
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Quote: Originally posted by Jax365 on 06/6/2011
A great renovation, Colin! I'm also in the North West, not far from Congleton or Crewe... if you're not too far away, would you like to have a go with my Mr Shifta and see if it will do the job? It's supposed to be able to pull a caravan like yours - however, the chap I bought it from had an enormous caravan which he had to pull off his drive up an enormous slope and the Shifta wouldn't do it, that;s why he was selling it.

Forgot to add - the chap I bought it from was having an electric winch put in. Probably your best option!

Hi JAX thanks for your kind offer but it looks like I now have the solution.

Following some checks on the A frame my caravan was left with the rear of the van at the road end of my drive. I'd spun it round on the drive.

We went for our first trial outing in the caravan on the 6th of June returning yesterday and I was able to get the van off the drive without it grounding as the front of the A frame and jockey wheel were not then rising on the road camber.
On our return I pulled the caravan up the dropped pavement slope with the car and stopped once the road wheels had just got past the highest point where the drive meets the pavement.
The car was then trapped in by the caravan as it is a one car width drive.
I chocked the caravans wheels to stop any possibility of it running down the slope back onto the road and then swivelled the caravan to open up the gap between the body/A frame and the house after decoupling it from the car. I was able to open a gap big enough to reverse the car through onto our front lawn so it looks like the problem is now solved much to the relief of my back.
We will be having our drive widened to double width on the area on the lawn that I had to drive the car over.

Colin

vwalan

10/6/2011 at 9:30am
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you could move house. seems a better idea to me . make sure you get one with a nice flat/wide entrance and loads of parking. thats what i did 25yr ago. we get caravans trucks etc on the front .dont have a garden jut grow vehicles. easier than struggling .

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