Aggravated And Need Some Help

Yes, long end. You are creating a big L shaped piece of steel. Very easy to make. It will be self explanatory once you have the 3 pieces in your posession. You really don't need much more than a 3 or 4 inch piece for the short end. You are just creating a handle to grab on to.

Yes, long end. You are creating a big L shaped piece of steel. Very easy to make. It will be self explanatory once you have the 3 pieces in your posession. You really don't need much more than a 3 or 4 inch piece for the short end. You are just creating a handle to grab on to.

This what you're talking about?

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Versus this is the one Kat broke?

Dunno how you broked it but...

This is the one Rainy is talking about.

The smaller ones are probably easier to store than the DIY one - whatever works for you.

Rick

Yeah.. That's what I got in brass chrome type of metal.

$25 at TA Iowa 80 and Petro Joplin Mo.

I left one in a hole and someone else must have benefitted.

Now for the rest of you..... Youz guyz are a bunch if perverts!!!!!!

It must have broken because I put one of the round pieces completely through the hole. It didn't want to sit in the opening like that picture shows. Expensive lesson for me....

It must have broken because I put one of the round pieces completely through the hole. It didn't want to sit in the opening like that picture shows. Expensive lesson for me....

It's a good model. The original one kinda had a handle thingy - but the inventor found putting the thin metal and another weight helped to counter-balance it. It has a LIP that's supposed to FACE UP - so it kinda "hangs" in the hole (you can see the lip on the part that's hanging out).

I'd prefer one of those, or one of the "cone type"- they're just smaller and easier to store than the homemade pipe contraption. That and I'm a sucker for gadgets.

Don't forget the vicegrips -

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for those pesky release bars that just don't want to stay released (even though most never trailers have air release).

Rick

Kat asks:

Sorry, no photo handy. But the cost for the pipe thing is way less than those fancy tandem stops.

BTW in sliding tandems , there is no "gentle" setting.

Ok... I went slowly, I guess I should have said...as opposed to slamming the truck one way or the other. LOL I will make the pipe thing. So when you use that, I am assuming that you stick the long piece of pipe into the hole?

***Lord have mercy.... There are so many ways this conversation can deteriorate.

I always try to go easy as I move the tandems. But I still squashed the steel pipe. Yes, the thingy still does is job, but the pipe is more oval shaped, not round anymore.

Not sure why you need to use a device like this. I have never needed anything more than a quarter (or golf ball marker) on the ground either ahead of or behind the front edge of drivers side door step depending on the direction the tandems need to be moved. Place it far enough away from the door so that you can see it, matching the distance fore or aft the tandems need to be slid. This technique has never failed me.

Not sure why you need to use a device like this. I have never needed anything more than a quarter (or golf ball marker) on the ground either ahead of or behind the front edge of drivers side door step depending on the direction the tandems need to be moved. Place it far enough away from the door so that you can see it, matching the distance fore or aft the tandems need to be slid. This technique has never failed me.

I've done this, too. But I saved money and us a rock!

..... Youz guyz are a bunch of perverts!!!!!!

-Rainy D.

Those of us from Philadelphia spell it "youse."

-mountain girl

But Rainy D. ...

Believe me, I fully appreciate your perfect tri-state (NJ, PA, DE) grammar and use of the word "you," in the plural form. Music to my ears when so far from home.

-mountain girl