Flag to show trailer corner.

When I had a small trailer, I bolted a couple of broom handles onto the rear corners to act as guides.

Was it a wooden trailer?

This is a fairly ancient tin trailer so not much to bolt to apart from the lower rear corners.

I would prefer to use the existing bolts, one on each side.

Worth considering, though, as broom handles are not expensive. :-)

Cheers

Dave R

Rear view camera?

Bill

You could try some radio antennas- the kind used for PMR radio. You'd need to make a simple bracket - a simple plate wound do with a few holes.

You could add a flag but a bit of bright coloured heat strike tubing over the rod may be enough.

Thanks.

Respectfully pointing out that the default option is £5.95.

It looks as though this is only 1085 mm long so barely tall enough and I would have to find somewhere to drill a hole.

Still, an interesting option I hadn't considered.

Confuse the hell out of bystanders if it looks as though I have twin radio antennae on the back of my trailer.

Cheers

Dave R

Some magnets to attach the poles then? Just take them off when driving fast.

Weld or screw a piece of pipe to each corner, that you can put a temporary stick or flag in.

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Indeed it was. It was a long time ago. I have had an Ifor Williams box trailer for a couple of decades now - much easier to reverse as well as having a lot more capacity.

How about fixing a horizontal hosepipe to the trailer, same length as the distance between your wing mirrors?

I'd use something like fibreglass rod (which may be sold as e.g. replacement tent pole) and a foam ball glued to the top.

I still painfully miss my twin axle 2 ton trailer which was enormously useful and very easy to reverse.

However very little use over the last couple of years plus competition for space on the drive. Sold it. Sniffle.

Cheers

Dave R

Uh duh!

Let me make it simple for you.

Two basic requirements:

(1) Shows the location of the corners when reversing.

(2) Remains fixed to the trailer and undamaged when towing at the legal maximum of 60 mph on dual carriageway.

Too difficult to comprehend?

Cheers

Dave R

The suggestion was that the poles needn't remain in place - they could just be attached before reversing, then removed and stowed away.

If you have to get out and attach the poles, there will be few cases when it would not be just as simple to uncouple the trailer and move it by hand.

Also, if you have to reverse to get out of a possible problem on a busy roundabout you don't want to find yourself having to leap out of the car and start fixing poles to the back of the trailer before you can reverse.

Of the two options, having them permanently fixed seems the more sensible option.

As you say, few cases. However the time when it isn't really sensible to get out and move it by hand will be the time when you don't have the time and space to go wandering around in busy traffic.

Cheers

Dave R

On one occassion (luckily towing a caravan rather than my trailer), I entered a section of roadworks on a motorway that was down to two lanes. One lane crossed to the other side, leaving only a single lane. Traffic stopped and a while later the police got everyone to reverse out of the section. They probably wouldn't have appreciated me holding everything up, getting out, removing the trailer cover and hunting for reversing flags.

SteveW

Often shows a good view of the towbar, handy for hitching up, but less good at seeing where the back of the trailer is heading when reversing.

I did get a suction cup mount for a cheap GoPro clone with wifi, before I had a car with a built in camera. You could aim that to point more directly backwards, but while looking at a phone screen on a driveway was okay, you would probably want something better than that.