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Location: Rhinelander, Wisconsin | Check out the IBall Back-up camera .
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Location: oconomowoc, wi | I NEED! |
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Location: 31 | Yeah, it sometimes takes me as long to center the hitch as it does to hook everything up... good idea! |
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| When I got a Yukon with a backup camera a few years ago, the first time I hooked up my trailer all I could think was, where was this when I had a 28', 7,000 pound travel trailer? The boat trailer, the utility trailers, you can move those a little by hand but that travel trailer, you had to be exactly there. With a helper it wasn't that bad but the few times I tried to hitch by myself, yikes. This system looks even easier than the back up camera. |
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Location: minocqua, wi. | i use my rear-view mirror and have a reference point on the windshield of my boat to the back window of my topper and get right where it needs to go for free. |
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Location: Minnesota. | jonnysled - 1/14/2016 6:47 AM
i use my rear-view mirror and have a reference point on the windshield of my boat to the back window of my topper and get right where it needs to go for free.
Me three. B'sides knowing me I'd drive off with the #$!$~@% camera still on my bumperrrr.... |
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| If you cant back your truck up to your boat solo you should not be driving. Just MHO. |
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| My new truck has the rear back up camera. I can get the ball exactly where I need it to hook up. |
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Location: Rhinelander, Wisconsin | wisskie - 1/14/2016 11:53 AM
If you cant back your truck up to your boat solo you should not be driving. Just MHO.
That's just ridiculous.
Of course I can, but getting the trailer and hitch lined up exactly the first time will be nice, especially on the car hauler and snowmobile trailer. |
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Location: Lake Elmo, MN | My F150 FX4 has the camera as well. It's the single BEST thing on that truck !! It has a zoom feature that gets me spot on every time. Makes the job absolutely simple. |
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Location: oconomowoc, wi | wisskie - 1/14/2016 11:53 AM
If you cant back your truck up to your boat solo you should not be driving. Just MHO.
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Location: Already Gone | PSAGuy - 1/14/2016 1:23 PM
My F150 FX4 has the camera as well. It's the single BEST thing on that truck !! It has a zoom feature that gets me spot on every time. Makes the job absolutely simple.
Yes. Dead on balls accurate... |
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Location: Elko - Lake Vermilion | To old for this kind of senseless spending and new Technology.
Besides, I'm going to Golf Galaxy later today to buy a new $500 Driver and a $300 Scotty Cameron Putter. Look out Rory |
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Location: Already Gone | Lol...I thought I was too. When I finally got a new truck, and saw this backup camera
thing and I thought about how senseless it is. Navigation system? Really?
Let's just say I've gotten pretty used to it...
Keep it in your fairway.
Edited by Mark Hoerich 1/15/2016 11:45 AM
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| Looks pretty cool to me. My truck has most everything...except a backup camera.
Serious question....I'm looking to go from a single axle trailer to a dual axle trailer. I never thought about it before now, but I'll have to dead on accurate backing up to get that thing on the trailer, won't I? I don't know if I'll be able to "just get close" and then weejaw the trailer onto the hitch like I can now.
Can anyone verify that? Because if it is more difficult to move the trailer side to side, this little gizmo is going to be really appealing to me. |
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Location: minocqua, wi. | you still have a little wiggle room but yah, not as much. i guess the dairy farmer youth must have provided me something or something but i can't see spending money for a camera to hook up a trailer.
not having mirrors would suck though. if you don't back with mirrors take the time to learn.
Edited by jonnysled 1/15/2016 12:59 PM
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| I'm an "over the shoulder" backup driver. I can get everything lined up just fine, but it would be nice to see when to stop, versus "feeling" it with the hitch.
Plus, the product is pretty affordable. I looked it up at my truck accessory place, $524 to install a backup camera complete with screen. |
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Location: minocqua, wi. | with mirrors, a tandem axle trailer and a long wheel-base truck i think i could do 30mph in reverse and still make turns using mirrors. i wonder if there is a contest somewhere ... |
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Location: Rhinelander, Wisconsin | You are going to hook up your trailer hitch to the truck at 30MPH?
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Location: oconomowoc, wi | oh great! another Legend.. LOL! |
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Location: Elko - Lake Vermilion |
jonnysled - 1/15/2016 1:46 PM
with mirrors, a tandem axle trailer and a lo
ng wheel-base truck i think i could do 30mph in reverse and still make turns using mirrors. i wonder if there is a contest somewhere ...
I like that contest... I have a 1 Ton Dually.
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Location: minocqua, wi. | i had a 1-ton dually once ... the fuel pump and the rear end gear box made it a short lived experience. drove like a ball-bearing in the snow. had horses and a wife once too ... there are things i miss about the dually! |
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Location: Rhinelander, Wisconsin | sled
I bet your rear license plate is a disaster. Why are you not out on the ice? |
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Location: minocqua, wi. | i can put it right on the money most of the time with the windshield target system ... fixed references never move ... must be the engineer in me, so no plate blemishes.
i've been out here and there and doing pretty good on pike. might put the big shack out this weekend but got my ATV getting some new bling added on and fixing a bent auger. that and work ... |
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Location: Rhinelander, Wisconsin | Work sucks. I use the bow light and my rear view mirror, but miss it enough to be happy I have an iBall coming. Plus, I have some other interesting plans for that little machine.... |
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Location: Lake Elmo, MN | Hahah....yeah I am picking up my new Ping irons tonight too. It's gonna be -2 tomorrow....golf clubs,?? Go figure. Would not trade my backup camera tho now for anything. I guess when you are in your 60's lazy is allowed. It's the greatest for hooking up a big multi-species Ranger with a dual trailer.
My wife likes the heated and cooled seats.....I'd give them back tomorrow but don't take my camera.
Edited by PSAGuy 1/15/2016 5:31 PM
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| I wish I had a backup camera!
I love my Scotty Cameron putter! |
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| Lighten up Francis....
Anyone can back up a truck to a trailer...what on God's green earth could you possibly have against making it easier? |
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| Wait...you guys take time to golf during fishing season?
that's not right.... |
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| Just wanted to post this... I ended up getting an I Ball. The thing works beautifully! I can see where it won't stay on the hitch or whatever else you set it on for long (it is magnetized) if you are going any real speed, but for ease of use and purpose, this thing is great. |
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| I Ball has no wires. It has a magnetized base that sits on my hitch. Camera is on a swivel mount and I have it pointed right at my hitch. Receiver unit goes into the cigarette lighter power port and has a flexible cable so I can get it just right for viewing.
Takes about 30 seconds to get setup to back the truck up. Lines up perfectly every time. About the only little issue I had was with rollback with the truck. Things looked perfect on the camera, so I put the truck in park, then it rolls back 3 inches or so and now I'm too far. So, I just had to learn how to compensate for that.
Very easy. I can see where it could have a lot of other uses as well. Very nice little unit that is very easy to use.
Thank you, Steve, for posting this out there months ago. Because of this thread I got one and it works perfectly. |
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| I get it. It is definitely a great idea. Quick and easy to setup, and helps line it all up straight on. The older I get the tougher it is to move a heavier boat around to the hitch especially on any sort of incline. |
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Location: NW WI | sworrall - 1/14/2016 12:19 PM
wisskie - 1/14/2016 11:53 AM
If you cant back your truck up to your boat solo you should not be driving. Just MHO.
That's just ridiculous.
Of course I can, but getting the trailer and hitch lined up exactly the first time will be nice, especially on the car hauler and snowmobile trailer.
X2 Glad somebody said this..... |
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Location: Tinley Park, IL | I was just talking to a coworker today. She and her husband just bought a 20-something foot pleasure boat with a dual axle trailer. They are first time boat owners and own a place in Krivitz just off the lake so they will always be launching. I recommended this device to them since they will need all the help they can get. I also gave them advice about not tying up the launch, ect. ect. I just know it is people like this that will make your blood pressure rise especially when you see their IL plates. |
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| Do you mean Crivitz in northeastern Wisconsin? |
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Location: Tinley Park, IL | vegas492 - 5/26/2016 1:32 PM
Do you mean Crivitz in northeastern Wisconsin?
yeap- that's the place.
Edited by Paul S 5/26/2016 4:35 PM
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| Paul S - 5/26/2016 4:24 PM
vegas492 - 5/26/2016 1:32 PM
Do you mean Crivitz in northeastern Wisconsin?
yeap- that's the place.
Beautiful place with some nice lakes around it! Rivers are amazing too! |
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