How much room do I need to back a trailer into my driveway?
 

As the title says.
Just using very rough figures, assume my car is 18' long and my boat/trailer is 34' from hitch to prop. The road in front of my driveway is 25' wide and my drive entrance is 16' wide.

There is a bunch of good reasons why I don't just try to back the boat in and see if it fits so I'm asking if anyone here has to back their trailer in with limited space to turn. I would have to virtually jackknife it in if possible.

Anyone have a boat/trailer around 34' overall and have to back her in from a narrow street with a pretty conventional size pickup?

Any help is much appreciated.

RR

[ATTACH=CONFIG]551802[/ATTACH]Sure I do it all the time, boat and trailer is 35' from drives to tip. Helps that I have dual and not triple axel, but you still see tire marks.
I am also doing it with a old twin I beam 4WD long bed ford that has a turning radius of a semi.

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I would back my 35' cabin cruiser,road was 24'wide but had a 24' wide driveway,tri-axle trailer truck was an avalanche,I would wet road so tires would slip. Didn't use whole drive way only about 12'

I've been known to make scale model on paper and shift things around to see if do able. Said cruiser fits in a very tight slip at marina where I have to swing bow over w blow boaters stern ��

Crew cab long bed truck, 52' from props to coupler, street 30' wide and can put it my yard using 15' of the driveway.

You are golden with that much room. My street is very narrow, crowned, with a narrow driveway, and a huge maple tree next to the entrance! My 336 on a triple axle makes it without issue.
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Thanks a heap. I thought it looked like a cryptic question but the answers are all good. Never thought about wetting the roadway first so the tires will slip, good, simple tip!

Thanks again.
RR

I recently added a receiver hitch to the front of my 2015 Chevy 2500 HD Z71. I put my 35' Cigarette in a tight spot down my driveway and into my shop.
I find it a lot easier using the front hitch and pushing it around.

Great question, very interesting. I'll potentially be attempting to back a 40' loa trailer/boat combo into my driveway from a narrow road w my crew cab f350 w an 8' bed. I've been looking for some sort of devise that would allow just two opposing wheels to be on the ground for the turn, crazy I know... The water trick I like..

Little soap and they really slide...