Where did you tow where you wished you hadn't?

Ever time you increase the length, width or height of your rig, you make it more difficult or impossible to go some place.
Sometimes it just means it takes MUCH longer, sometimes it will simply be too hard.

We sometimes tow a boat (on a suitable serious off road trailer). That makes anything remotely difficult simply too hard and we plan accordingly.

Cheers,
Peter
OKA196 Motorhome

A track, somewhere in Tassie, can't quite remember where, convinced me that there are places I should not take a camper trailer.

Aside from all that it is logical that there are places you can take the vehicle alone but would not attempt with a trailer on.

Have a watch of a TV show called "All 4 adventure". Especially the last couple of episodes. Cheers,Bob.

Up my driveway when I return home.

I managed to tow my 18 ft cruisecraft into the Ocean Lake camping area at Fraser and decided to do a quick U turn ready to go out fishing in the morning. I managed to select a decreasing radius track with a tree at the apex. Needless to say I slowed down enough to get bogged on the apex just before the boat sideswiped the tree, and in such a position that we couldn't get a vehicle around to help, and a 2t trailer that needed realigning and debogging . There's a couple of hours of my life invested in that corner, and a fair amount of my sore back......

Probably the 4wd track into the Organ Pipes in the Gawler Ranges. It was our first holiday since we had purchased the caravan pre-loved, and it had a difficult non-original hitching system, my husband had to accurately back onto the 'block' section as i held it. After the first difficult unhitch and re-hitch it a very squeezy caravan park, we vowed never to unhitch again until we got home and bought an AT35.

So the caravan followed us on the track; dragging through loose dirt, dodging overhanging trees, up a steep incline and winding through the bush. Then the track just stopped - bollards preventing going further onto a walk trail, and NO turn around.

Fortunately our caravan is high and has rear cutaway which went over the low scrub while my husband did a very tight 3 plus point turn without any damage to the trees.

We were towing with a Patrol - it would never have worked with the F250.

Motherhen

Sometimes a CT is a PITA. We found this in the Vic High Country - it really restricted the amount of country we could have otherwise seen.

Physics dictate that a 4x4 alone will go places a 4x4 towing will not.

Also need to consider possible track damage when towing.

However if you're doing a lap of Aust then you may well want the extra luxury of the CT and you will have to accept that some places will have to miss out.

For shorter side trips where CT is impractical throw in a tent and rought it for a day or so whilst the CT stays put somehwere.

What happens when there is no option but to push on? you ask - well depends on the circumstances. You might make it, you might jet stuck, you might damage something, you might regret it.

Plan heaps before you go.

Another very real option is to downsize the camper trailer, or to downsize from a van to a camper trailer.

I am gob smacked at the huge lumps people want to drag behind a 4wd off road.

Reduce the size, weight and length, and you will go more places and more easily.

Look at the vast majority of camper trailers and they are crude in engineering terms......hardly a full step beyond a common box trailer.......as a result they incur a lot of weight to achieve the required strength...then ya start looking at the rear over hang, the clearance issues with the drawbar and a number of other issues.

Then people want to carry soo much, realy unnecessary stuff.......serioulsy, that all singing, all dancing, roll out, fold up stanless kitchen with the built in 3 burner stove and hot and cold running water ends up adding over 100Kg by the time its all said and done.

Then there are the full sized, built for a house, inner spring matress, the enormous fridges and the batteries required to run them, the diesel powered heaters......and it just goes on.

Why should a tent screwed to a box trailer weigh in just not much under 2 tonnes, and why would you expect a vehicle to perform off road when dragging 2/3 of its weight and as much length again

serioulsy

cheers

I haven't found a track that has stoped the CT yet either behind the Cruiser or the Colorado, Ihave done a few and I still have a few to go.

When I do find a track that stops us I will let you know.

Phil