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#1 patrickkidd

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Posted 17 February 2021 - 02:51 AM

I am trying to get my camper into my garage so no one steals it on the street. My garage door is too low to back my FWC in while on my truck bed. I also have a typical lip created by the garage concrete slab 1" or so above the driveway asphalt, and maybe a 1 degree incline on the driveway up to the slab.

 

How do you all move your camper around when it isn't on the truck? I have electric jacks to get it off the truck.

 

Thanks!


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#2 Kolockum

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Posted 17 February 2021 - 03:01 AM

Most people use either a homemade dolly or a harbor freight trailer.


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#3 DanoT

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Posted 17 February 2021 - 04:10 AM

Dealing with the 1" driveway/garage lip: a 1x4 board, shaved down to a taper might work as a temporary solution. Topping cement would be more permanent.


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#4 patrickkidd

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Posted 17 February 2021 - 07:54 AM

For reference, this is a good thread for this topic, even addresses the concrete lip:

 

https://www.wanderth...-build-a-dolly/


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#5 thisoldcamper

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Posted 17 February 2021 - 07:39 PM

I use an old pop-up camper frame.

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#6 patrickkidd

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Posted 18 February 2021 - 01:38 AM

Man, those folding harbor freight trailers look perfect. If only there was a way to get one in Anchorage, Alaska.
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#7 DavidGraves

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Posted 18 February 2021 - 01:49 AM

Those Harbor freight trailers would fold up like a pretzel....a camper setting on a trailer is fairly awkward / heavy

 

If you do try a harbor freight trailer avoid the temptation to move your camper around much....and maybe reset the jacks when you get it inside the garage.

 

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#8 CougarCouple

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Posted 18 February 2021 - 02:38 PM

A HF trailer will work, and I think my weight on the trailer was around 1400-1500 lbs.
would not recommend putting it on the road. From street to garage only for me. Check your measurements as mine just barely fit, and yes to putting the jacks down for stability.

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