I got home from a few days at the Great Dorset steam fair, pulled up half onto the pavement so other vehicles could pass. Managed to wreck my mover, it caught the kerb and bent the engagement motor. I have managed to straighten the metal bits and glue the plastic bits (not hopeful about the glueing)
If the repair is not a success I will probably invest in an Al-Ko Mammut as they do not dangle under the chassis
As someone who gets particularly irritated by drivers whose vehicles are blocking the pavements I'd say that you've received appropriate karma.
Just check that you haven't also twisted the axel as I've seen that happen with a builders twin axel trailer, where the tyres were touching after mounting the pavement.
------------- Ollie
2016
Monplaisir - Provence
Camping Les Gorges du Loup
Quote: Originally posted by Billy x on 08/9/2015I have seen some that are behind the wheel which seems a better design. Movers getting clouted is not unusual given the nature of their position.
You can put any of them behind the wheel. They are just more prone to getting road dirt and stones in them.
Ollie, it's a residential street, the pavement is about 10ft wide and the road about 12ft. I had parked at the gable end not in front of someones gate.
Grampian, the Mammut fits in pre drilled holes in the chassis, the cross member and motors are a above chassis level
yoi are currently allowed to park up the kerb if you are not blocking the pavement. This is something the government are looking to change and they have several trial areas where you are not allowed by law. We live in one such area and I have to say it is working really well.
The side effect of cars having to park fully in the road is they provide a natural speed restriction, maybe we won't need the speed humps anymore!
Ollie, I am not sure where you live but on my estate, and many like it in local east London boroughs you are actually encouraged, and in some boroughs instructed with signage and parking bays, to park half on the pavements otherwise you would never get down the roads. Many of these estates were built long before there were many cars around and the roads were not built to cater for the amount of traffic and ownership of cars that exist today. On some of the wider pavements the whole car is parked off road. My local district council is even allowing some cars to park on grass areas because there simply isn't any other room for parking. Unfortunate yes, but it's a sign of the car ownership society we have become.
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Topic: Watch the kerbs
