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| Pretend your a bird looking down over a single axle trailer. When you try to streer the trailer the trailer tounge goes either right or left. When you are turning the trailer the axel is the pivot point, one tire rotates clock wise the other counter clock wise (assuming the trailer is staying in location and moving by hand). Turning the trailer is easy because each wheel can move freely.
Now your the same bird looking down on a dual axel trailer. when you go to steer the boat left or right, which axel will the rig pivot on? The answer is the axel with the most traction, so in order to turn the trailer (again by hand) you must over come the force required to slide the two tires on the axel with less traction (the tires will act like they want to roll off the bead of the rim). Really what your doing is dragging one axel along for the ride when turning sharp at the slow speed of moving by hand.
Normally you do not have a light boat if your trailer has two axels, so that makes it all the much harder, thats why the tip from the previous post said to rise your jack all the way or lower it to get as much weight off one axel so it wont have alot of grip and makes it easy to han move.
Moving a dual axel trailer strait foward and back ward is almost as easy as a single, its the axels fighting each other when turning is what makes it hard to manuver by hand
Edited by anzomcik 1/8/2014 8:18 AM
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