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18/9/2016 at 8:31pm
Location: West country
Outfit: Mondeo
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The winch may not be suitable as their drive slopes down and they need to hitch to the back. The brakes are not very good going backwards. A mover will cope with all of that.
You will need space at the side though to be able to lower the mover onto the wheel each side. You have to use a socket wrench to turn a nut which requires quie a lot of force.
There are movers with cross bar actuation and some now with electric actuation (putting the mover onto the wheel) but these are more expensive again.
Be aware that movers actually move the van surprisingly slowly. You have to unhitch, then lower the movers, switch on the isolator then operate the remote. Once moving they only travel very slowly.
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18/9/2016 at 9:24pm
Location: Lancashire
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Beware of buying a second hand mover. Our friends did, it cost five hundred pounds fitted.It lasted one season, and two outings.
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19/9/2016 at 5:14pm
Location: S.Wales
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Perhaps I'm just tight fisted and grumpy, but I'd ask the parked cars to move so I could park it with the car.
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24/9/2016 at 4:23pm
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Well I did have a heart attack trying to get ours over a kerb on site. The Macadam solution (assuming you are laying it on the highway) would not be legal. The solutions are:
Use a motor mover
or use a winch
or leave it on a storage site
or get the kerb lowered (the most expensive option)
or get a tent.
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24/9/2016 at 8:01pm
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my mover manages a kerb easy with the help of small pieces 2 x 4 timber.. i carry several short lengths for leveling.. kerbs and chocks.. a piece the right length under the hitch if you want to check nose weight or adjust the jockey wheel is also useful..
always put the van at an angle and do one wheel at a time when going up kerbs..
essential equipment.. he he..
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25/9/2016 at 10:28am
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Movers enable people who wouldnt otherwise own a caravan, to have one. Myself included. There is no way we could get ours where it 'lives' without a mover. We just wouldnt have considered a caravan if movers didnt exist.
I'd say the OP is one of these people, given the kerb/drive slope/busy road etc. A mover should have been integral to the requirements when sourcing the van, as much as the towball on the car.
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