Our Hi-Lo train to Tennessee

This was in 1998 with our old Fun-Lite. Pulled pretty well with a 1997 GMC Z71 1/2 ton w/ 350. Tough to back up though! We were headed to Tennessee to camp and have fun on the lakes. We ended up moving there. We would sometime pull two Sea-Doo trailers instead of the hi-lo seadoo combo, ours and a friend's. It was legal where we drove in OH, KY and TN. Not legal in some other states.

boater454 said:

This was in 1998 with our old Fun-Lite. Pulled pretty well with a 1997 GMC Z71 1/2 ton w/ 350. Tough to back up though! We were headed to Tennessee to camp and have fun on the lakes. We ended up moving there. We would sometime pull two Sea-Doo trailers instead of the hi-lo seadoo combo, ours and a friend's. It was legal where we drove in OH, KY and TN. Not legal in some other states.

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Sweet! If it were me, I'd had that rig wrapped around a tree in no time. It took me some time to learn how to back in just the trailer.

Boater,

Just out of curiosity, how well did your two trailers track? Did you ever experience any fishtailing? Were you using a WD hitch system between the TV and Hi-Lo? Did you have both the boat and Hi-lo brakes connected, or just the boat trailer?

Jim

JMDoering said:

Boater,

Just out of curiosity, how well did your two trailers track? Did you ever experience any fishtailing? Were you using a WD hitch system between the TV and Hi-Lo? Did you have both the boat and Hi-lo brakes connected, or just the boat trailer?

Jim

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Jim,

They tracked perfectly - No Fishtailing. Just had to be sure there was enough weight on the tongue of the SeaDoo trailer.

Yes I had a WD Hitch between the Hi-Lo and TV only.

Just brakes on the Hi-Lo. I did have lights hooked up on both though. I cut the ends off an old extension cord and put flat connectors on it and ran it under the Hi-Lo to the second trailer's lights. The Sea-Doo Trailer is all aluminum and really light with no brakes. Probably about 1,300 Lbs. total with it and 2 Sea-Doos. (I still have this same trailer and one of the same Sea-Doos).

Andy

FYI - I noticed the pic is reversed above. I scanned it from an old slide. The door was on the Right side of my old Hi-Lo.

Backing a rig like that would take lots and lots of practice... When I drove big rigs the clutch went out while backing up to the dock one night... Bad part on a rig when the clutch goes out, you cannot disengage driveline, you just keep going - pissed off the dock foreman when I slammed into "his" dock.

The tow truck came and hooked up, he then back the tow truck (not short), rig (conventional long-nose, not short either) and my 53' trailer (not short) back the entire length of the warehouse drive almost 350' so we could drop the trailer. Not once did it look like it was going to jackknife or twist up and he was not going slow while doing it.

I got a similar chance while hauling double 28' trailers and couldn't back it 50' without something going the wrong way. oh well...

Question? - If you are driving a setup like that and come to a state line with a sign that says "No doubles or triples" meaning RV's and such, what do you do?

Question? - If you are driving a setup like that and come to a state line with a sign that says "No doubles or triples" meaning RV's and such, what do you do?

This was 14 years ago and laws may have changed some but it's best to research it ahead of time. That would be bad if you had to leave one trailer and then come back for it later.