Mailing List lml@lancaironline.net Message #16470
From: Jim Cameron <toucan@78055.com>
Sender: Marvin Kaye <marv@lancaironline.net>
Subject: Towbar
Date: Sat, 23 Nov 2002 23:11:41 -0500
To: <lml>
Rather than fork out lots of cash for a robo-tow, I had my local garage put a receiver hitch on the front of my pickup.  For about $20 worth of scrap steel and a trailer hitch, I made up a towbar that connects airplane to truck.  Pull it out using the hitch on the back, push it in with the hitch on the front.  Total cost about $150.
 
You can try backing it in with the rear hitch, but you'll have to be a lot more coordinated than me!  You can go a few feet, then everything goes to pot.  Kinda like trying to back up a two-axle haywagon, if you've ever tried that.
 
Jim Cameron
Lancair Super ES  N143ES
 
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