Electric corner steadies

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abbeylover
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I have a kronings mover but I see they do electric corner steadies which bolt on to the existing steadies.

I know the old jokes about a screwdriver is cheaper but I think this is a great idea, and can appratnely be used from my same handset.

Does anybody have any experience of these things??Foot in mouth

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It would seem not, abbeylover!

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Swimbo with the winder handle seems to work rather well for us without using valuable battery power.

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It is a lot of extra weight especially if you already have a motor mover fitted.  A battery drill is a lot cheaper and more versatile.

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Some people have disabilities or old age creeping on and winding the handle is not easy  and even bending down with a cordless drill can be difficult if arthritis etc prevails

Make the most of your easy winding you could grow out of it Laughing

Good luck with finding an answer

 

There's a thread here and interestingly the last link is to a company on the same site as Powrwheel and Truma

 

http://www.caravantalk.co.uk/community/topic/58776-electric-corner-steadies/page__p__615796__hl__electric%20corner%20steadies__fromsearch__1#entry615796

 

 

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It's Not cheap !

But what price do you put on your health ?

 Installation price

 

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Sproket wrote:

It's Not cheap !

But what price do you put on your health ?

 Installation price

 

Video & another Video

Installation price is enough to effect your health!  LOL!  Laughing

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LOL

And it could influence your wealth Laughing

But just as movers enable older and infirm people to continue caravanning for many extra years so too could electric corner steadies

I look after my sister in law's finances as she has dementia and is in a retiremnet home

Its costing £1880 a month of her savings until she gets down to about £25000 so a philosophy is spend it now and then there will be less for them to take when you are parked in a retiremnet home or as someone said recently warehoused Frown

Now where is the order form and the car brochure to get something that will pull the caravan with all the  added weight?

John

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WatsonJohnG wrote:

But just as movers enable older and infirm people to continue caravanning for many extra years

 

Watch it John - I'm not that old and not infirm yet, but I've got a mover.  Well, I am a Woosie!!

 

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Throught the history of camping and caravanning, new developments have come to light, and whilst at first some die hards may feel the use of such equipment is a cop out from the spirit of the hobby, but just becasue someone feels its a cop out does not make it wrong for others. It a persoanal choice what equiepment you choose to use.

As we get older we al tend to become less able at doing some things, so as someone has already pointed out, if a new gadget allows a person with an impairment to continue without becoming more reliant on others, then provided they can afford it then why not?

Camping and caravanning is an occupation usually carried out in peoples leisure and holiday time. Such time is valuable and it is a real shame if anyone hurts themselves when the injury could have been avoided.

The woosies are those who shun new developments in an effort to show how hardy they are, or perhaps that shold be 'foolhardy'

Who says you have to a hardened nut to camp or caravan? - only a woosie!

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Prof John said:

The woosies are those who shun new developments in an effort to show how hardy they are, or perhaps that shold be 'foolhardy'

Well I may be a Woosie but I never saw myself as "hardman". Must bring some Knucle Dusters to Stowfolot for the Tournament.Laughing

Seriously I am so surprised no manufacturer or designer has come up with rear steadies that are  easy to reach. Even the Wyomings are a fair way underneath the body. I have to kneel down just to see where they are. Ok, I do have a 12" extension to my cordless but I stiil need to see where the  bolt is.

In engineering terms surely it cannot be that difficult to make them more accessible???  

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