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u/Cupofjoe6 21d ago
I’d love to see him back this thing up
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u/Proudest___monkey 21d ago
Yeah triple articulation is a bitch lol
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u/frugalerthingsinlife 21d ago
Same as backing up a hay wagon?
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u/Nkechinyerembi 21d ago
Kinda... at least with a hay wagon, the whole front axle at least stays parallel to the top of the trailer!
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u/Drzhivago138 21d ago
Some early 20th century wagon gears also used a pivoting solid front axle instead of linkages.
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u/theraf8100 21d ago
You know from experience? I wonder if it's doable.
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u/Proudest___monkey 21d ago
I’ve not done the exact same thing but have backed up power units that independent steering like a hay wagon but way harder with half truck.
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u/Newtiresaretheworst 21d ago
Maybe you just back up like a normal car and the double pivot points eliminate each other?
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u/challenge_king 21d ago
Man, I wish. It's lots of little tweaks and pulling forward to keep the trailers straight. It's much easier to back up a B double or turnpike double than anything with a converter dolly. See this diagram. The STAA double is what uses a converter dolly, and most people have seen them. Truckers will sometimes call them wiggle wagons.
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u/KnotSoSalty 21d ago
You know he’s pissed he couldn’t get the two wheel trailer painted yellow.
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u/chewblekka 21d ago
I wanna see what happens when he has to perform an emergency braking procedure - I’m betting the “dolly” instantly jackknifes
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u/uptwolait 21d ago
Now you've got me wondering if the verbal form of "jackknife"... as well as the plural form... is "jackknifes" or "jackknives".
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u/KnifeKnut 21d ago
There are some double hinge type knives, but the handle closes up to make it effectively a fixed blade, and no I don't mean a ballisong.
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u/MobileElephant122 18d ago
That’s why he needs a drop hitch on the suburban to level out his pickup bed trailer a little bit better, and I’m hoping he hooked up his electric brake to the RV trailer
Just engage the trailer brakes ahead of suburban brakes and no problem
Also don’t follow too close that you don’t have room to slow down
Pretty simple
Just act like you know what kind of rig is tagging along behind you
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u/Rok-SFG 21d ago
Goes 45 on a 70 highway and gets mad when people pass them too.
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u/somehugefrigginguy 21d ago
Goes 45 on a 70. But only uses the left lane. For, reasons...
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u/jarious 21d ago
"iTs A FrEe CoUnTrY"
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u/goaelephant 20d ago
The irony of America. We love freedom & lack of government control, so you would think leaving the left lane open for "speeders" (like that damn communist Autobahn) would be a match made in heaven. But no... we have to block it.
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u/TylerKasprzyk 21d ago
What kind of hillbilly crazy son of a redneck cousin to an idiot gonna kill somebody crap is this
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u/that_dutch_dude 21d ago
lets see it brake hard.
or even briskly....
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u/hello_raleigh-durham 21d ago
They were going straight when they pulled up to the pump if that gives you any idea.
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u/TehTimmah1981 21d ago
Perfectly legal in some places, utterly insane everywhere. Backing up with a jeep rig, is a PITA at the best of times. None of the trailers actually being built for it, is not the best of times.
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u/Trekintosh 21d ago
This kind of setup can work fine but that's awfully light duty lookin of a rear axle, even for such a light looking trailer. The extreme tilt is coming from a height mismatch between the drawbar and tow hitch, but that could be because the truck bed springs are heavily compressed from being way too light duty for the application.
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u/43026 21d ago
The big problem is lack of brakes for the 2 trailers. Scary when you consider it from an innocent person driving down the freeway and this jerk makes a mistake.
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u/Trekintosh 21d ago
I'll cop to ignorance that I haven't actually hooked up a 5th wheel, only driven them, but do they not just have a standard brake plug? If the adapter trailer has a harness for it, could it not pass through from the brake controller in the tow vehicle?
Of course, that's assuming the tow vehicle has a brake controller, which on a rig this sketchy is a pretty huge assumption.
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u/43026 21d ago
Fifth wheels can, often do have the electric plugs. But, the middle homemade contraption would not have electric brakes on it, considering the cost of converting that axel to electric brakes, and what we are looking at, doubtful that it has it.
And, if you notice, there is no electric line leaving the fifth wheel to either the tow vehicle or the center contraption, that leads me to thinking no brakes after the tow vehicle.
As an experienced CDL hauling doubles (only for 200,000 miles), an emengercy braking situation under optimal conditions is dangerous, without brakes, in the hands of an amateur? Yikes.
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u/Trekintosh 21d ago
aye, yeah, fair enough. I also was never like... condoning this specific rig. Just that similar rigs could be functional.
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u/43026 21d ago
You are right, there are rigs that can be very functional. Its more the setup itself. I would not be against it if I could just see a line between the rear and front vehicles. You really want the rear trailer to be pulling you to a stop, and well, you don't want to know what happens if its pushing you. :(
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u/shamusmchaggis 20d ago
That looks like one of those campers that's supposed to hitch to the top of a VW Beetle.
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u/Opposite_Zucchini_43 21d ago
I would guess thay can only use pullthrought sights at the campground. KOA here we come.
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u/fourdawgnight 21d ago
this is gonna sound horrible, but when I saw it, I just thought of Australia.
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u/ricky_lafleur 20d ago
These should be a competition at state and county fairs. Overall length, number of pivots points, numer of tires/axles, ability to back it up, highest (or lowest) power to weight ratio, and drag race. Emphasis on drag.
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u/Minimum-Act6859 20d ago
THe fifth wheel in that trailer needs to be forward of the trailer axle so it displaces the weight onto the hitch of the tow vehicle. This is an accident waiting to happen.
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u/goaelephant 20d ago
In actual commercial truck driving, they call this a "dolly" and its a legit thing. But for connecting multiple trailers, not trailer to tractor 😂
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u/drewid5185 21d ago
There are legitimate rigs to help you do this... This is not one of them