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A simple suggestion would be to line up the centre of his rear window with the centre of the caravan window, these window centres can be marked for reference if need be. Wind the jockey wheel to raise the hitch above towball height, fit a plate between the towball & the towbar, you can buy them at the caravan centre. It might pay to get them to fit this plate if his back is too bad to undo the nuts on the towball. Using this, he can, with a little care & practise, reverse right under the hitch & simply lower the van onto the towball using the jockey wheel.

Alternatively, the fitting of a motomover would solve the whole job, the caravan could then be hitched, unhitched or just moved around with ease. We've got a powertouch & it's excellent.

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 get him a motor mover I,m disabled Knackered knees a mover takes all the hard work out of hitching up see Wizards Posts on how to get the best possible price

on a new one he is well named!

Yep - Powrtouch mover every time.  In just a couple of minutes on Saturday we'd manouevered our 'van into a ridiculously awkward position that would have taken a huge amount of pushing and shoving by hand.  Given that we were on soft but gravel covered ground and in pouring rain, we very much appreciated not having to try to manhandle a cold, wet and slippery tonne and a half of caravan!  Getting it back out and attached to the car was also so easy with the mover - friends are amazed at how effective it is.  (They want a static 'van but I'm sure he was thinking of a tourer just so he could have a mover to play with!!!)

We can now leave the car anywhere near the pitch and just powrtouch the 'van to it, line it up perfectly then just lift the jockey wheel.

Now just need to persuade OH into a power drill for the steadies because I always seem to end up doing them and that's my least favourite task!

Have a look here :

http://www.ukcampsite.co.uk/chatter/display_topic_threads.asp?ForumID=8&TopicID=134165&PagePosition=2

Nora

Quote: Originally posted by jjim on 04/4/2008

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get him a motor mover I,m disabled Knackered knees a mover takes all the hard work out of hitching up see Wizards Posts on how to get the best possible price

on a new one he is well named!

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