100ton wrote: I would have no problem helping him move his trailer. Of course, if I knew in advance that I would have to "shop around" for an acceptable site, I may have had second thoughts. As for him having the nerve to ask, perhaps he did not think it was any big deal as he may be the kind of person that would step up and help others should the tables be turned. We really don't know the entire situation...........
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No problems with me saying "yes" to someone either. I would have asked "where do you want the trailer placed" prior to moving it. I have a seasonal site too, I didn't bring my truck but had to move my camper to a new site. A person with a Ford Superduty was more then happy to offer and I was appreciative. I bought a pizza for super and we brought over half and shared it with them.
No flaming, nor do I think your a bad person for saying no. Just wanted to share how I feel about it.
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I have only moved one once. It was an emergency because the guy was blocking the road out of the campground and his truck went into idle only mode with a little noise, must have been a Ford thing. He was unable to pull the hill, so I put it back into the his vacated camp spot.
I don't mind doing something like that, but towing someone else's trailer for sone distance that I don't know anything about is something else.
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For me, a lot would depend on the way the person approached me. You certainly can't judge a book by its cover, but quite often, you can get a pretty good sense of the type person you're dealing with. Also, if someone I'd never laid eyes on, just walked up out of the blue, I would feel differently than if it were someone I'd talked to a few times. I guess it would just depend on how the whole deal struck me at the time. I really want to help people, and I appreciate people's help when I have an emergency, but I'm aware that everything yellow isn't gold.
It depends on the person asking. I profile people and have enough professional and life experience to get a good enough (for me) read on who I am dealing with. If it is a good old boy, I'm in. If it is someone who is pushy and in a big hurry, I'm out. I would likely say, come have a drink with me and let's talk this over. While I am a sociable person, I don't go camping to be with crowds nor to make lasting friends. I do it to get away. Hope this doesn't sound rude, but life is short and we each have to live it our way where possible. That includes saying no or yes.
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I've done it a number of times. I get asked to move the bigger trailers by folks who no longer have pick-ups (to old to do the pull chores) and leave their trailers in storage year to year. The strangest thing to occur on a semi-frequent basis is the lifting of trailers that have jack-leg problems. Some folks realize that most bigger trucks have a feature that allows them to dump the air from the suspension to lower the rear of the truck and using this feature to back under a trailer then air-up to raise it and take the weight off the legs can be handy at times.
I have NEVER been asked to move a trailer to more than one site and would certainly draw the line at that!
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Dave H M wrote: Ida done it, but when he started scratching his head I would have shut the rig down and said look me up when you find the perfect spot.
I think that would be the turning point for me.Sounds like a old candied camera stunt.
I'd like to think I would have helped the guy out. I'd also like to think that I'd have been smart enough to have asked for a "release of all claims" from him before I did it. And I'm certain that I would have told him that since I was charging him nothing to do it, that if I broke his trailer completely in two, that he had the famous 50/50 warranty from me --- he was the proud owner of both pieces!
I guess I'm not clear on the insurance thing... if I have an accident his insurance covers his FW and my insurance covers my truck? I guess I'd tell him verbally that any damage to his rig is his liability, not mine?
This probably needs a "fer instance":
You are right the details would matter and insurance policies would differ. In my hypothetical consideration here I was thinking that my liabilities for my truck and things I hit with my truck or his trailer are identical to my liabilities when I move my own FW around. Either I feel OK moving a FW around an RV park or I don't. I suppose it depends on the park and the hazards.
I also agree with the other posts that say it depends on my read on the person, the way they asked, and what they needed done. Along the same tangent... in campgrounds I've loaned things (tools, hoses, etc) to people and declined to loan things to people based on how they asked.
Here's a variation on the scenario... DW does not remember how to hitch up the FW and will not drive it in tight spaces - but she has driven it on roads. I've asked her what she would do if I ever got sick and she needed to move our FW. Would you hitch my truck to my FW and drive it out of a site to help out if someone had gotten sick?
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