Trailer mover

Easiest way would be to push it....HARD !
But if we eliminate the "cheapest" part of your question, then i have a friend who runs a 12V electric motor off his front wheel. Chain and sprocket job with low speed with lots of torque. Works a treat he tells me. Especially when offroad with a full load in it. Nothing worse that trying to move a fully loaded trailer on damn grass.

The big cavaran places sell a rachet type jockey wheel that will move a large van, worth a look I reckon.

What sort of ground are you talkign about? Muddy garden? Grass? Concrete?

Hi Big Bo,

I use a ratchet type jockey wheel on my 1.6T van. It works well on hard surfaces and grass, but obviously it struggles (well, becomes hopelessly bogged!) on soft sand. You need a bit of weight on the drawbar when going uphill (mild slopes only) but works a treat for general manovering.

Also makes it real easy to reconnect the van. I have a treg hitch and thats a bugger to reconnect unless on level bitumen.

Cheers

Captain

Towbar on the front of the car?

Probably too expensive but it got my attention at the time.......

At the Adelaide camping show last year there was a bloke there flogging a remote-controlled gizmo. It worked on both main wheels (as opposed to a jockey wheel) of the camper or trailer. It utilised 2 electric motors which sat up behind the wheels at floor level and each one had an extended shaft with a small drive wheel, which he could activate indepandantly from one another. He could just about make the trailer do a dance!!! The drive wheel rested against the tyre's tread.
He had a ramp set-up which was only slightly wider than the track of the trailer and he was able to "drive" the trailer up and onto the ramp, even at at angle whereby one wheel would hit it before the other. Very ingenious I thought. Not sure how practical it would be to have it hanging there when not in use; however, I also thought it could possibly be of some use to give some small amount of traction to a trailer when traversing mud or sand dunes etc. (of course the speed was not great, but the fact they were being driven at all would have to be bonus).

ezi move jockey wheel by ark @ $180 will take a 350kg down load & move a couple of tonne easily