backing and parking
hey y'all we're jimmy and lisa with find us camping in today's
tuesday talks for our RVers we're going to talk about backing and or parking
so today is travel day for us so yeah it's been kind of a hectic travel day but we're on the
home stretch now so we're going to show you all how we back and park hopefully it's a good one
yeah hopefully it's a good back we're pretty sure the park we're going to that
it's going to be a back end scythe might be a little presumptuous but we will see
and if not we'll pull through and show you what that looks like but just wanted to give you a
heads up this is what's next and the what we've learned series how we've learned to communicate
when backing and or parking communicate some days it's easier than others
all right what we can do here at least it's a pull through
to make sure we get level
i think if we pull the camper as far forward as we can that'll be our best shot at being level
i can't get out so i can't go so much because there's people in there oh you might be good no
you might be good right there let me go the other side
i'm not gonna clear the car
gotta come back so i'm not worried about the gate down okay just come on back
good all right let's get on the front let me double check the back
yep we're golden all right
so that's how we do it nice and easy so it wasn't to back in like we thought it was going to be
it was a pull through thank goodness because this campground is kind of hard to get in back
when we do back ends it is a tight campground but
go ahead me basically what she does as you see she gets out the truck and she walks around
and we get our phones out because my truck is bluetooth ready so i'll either call her
or she'll call me and as we're either pulling in or backing in we're kind of talking through
the bluetooth that way i don't have to telephone to my ear i can just drop and you don't have to
do it that way there are certainly plenty of people that use little walkie-talkies
or if you're in an area with no cell phone signal you'll have to use a walkie-talkie
or people you know will be out there those are the funny ones looking like they're just occurring
and we've been there done that so this is what works best for us um a side tip that
i know we've mentioned in a previous video some of the things you're looking for when
you're backing in or pulling forward or however you're getting into your site
is how close are you to the trees or the power pedestal well like a we did a video on how lisa
actually pulls in how she measures how far away we are from the pedestal without using the tape
measure or a broomstick we have a video we'll link above that way you can watch that one see how we
have it how we figure out exactly where we need to be we actually taught somebody this weekend
that that little trick and it works great because you don't want to buy anything long as you have
yourself you can figure that out with you and you're good um so yeah so that's how we do it we
use our phones i guess it's probably not perfect but it works for us so just a thought instead of
going out and buying radios or walkie-talkies now we also do have a camera on the back of my camper
and right in in the monitoring side so as i'm backing up i can kind of still see her but
sometimes there's a glare on that because it sits up in the dash so it's not always percent either
it's still better to always have somebody behind you to spot you i've been backing in trailers for
a couple of minutes a lot of years and it's still better i work for a lot of tractor trailer places
and i've seen people get run over by backing them up so if you have two people make it
easier have a spotter because there's nothing worse than backing in and a kid run behind you
yeah that's true so that's how we do it next series next our next video is going to be on
hooking up to the truck and leaving yeah so the next one will be hooking up and pulling out
campers hate to pull out wow
i saw a shirt that's what it said until the next time you find us camping y'all safe travel yall