Wheelhouse parking on steep driveway?

[Skhots]

For those of you with steep driveways and long wheelhouses/trailers, do you guys have to start it out at an angle? How else do you get by without bottoming out?

My boat trailer's jack used to bottom out and lift the back end of the truck because of the curb geometry. I'm afraid I'll have the same issue when I bring home my new wheel house this weekend.

[Redlineracer12]

I have a fairly steep driveway an back both a small wheelhouse (6x12 yetti) and a decent size fishing boat (1775 pro v) up it. The fish house actually rides pretty high in the air when trailering, so i have no problems with that. With a longer house it might be tougher, but they should actually be better than a boat as far as the tongue height because the wheels are more toward the center of the trailer. I go straight down and then crank it once the truck is in the street. Actually the hardest part for me is parking the darn house on the hill because as soon as you start to pick the tongue up the trailer wants to roll down hill but you dont have the coupler latched yet.

[MuskieJunkie]

I would go at an angle to get it over the curb, then pull forward to straighten the whole rig out, then back straight up the driveway.

Another option is to get a hitch that drops the tongue lower (which will bring the back end up)

Another option is to get the wheels that go on the very back of the rig, they make them for enclosed trailers, try google searching - enclosed trailer skid wheels

[Skhots]

Yeah I currently angle it in and straighten out with my 17 ft boat. Had same issues with my dump trailer. I probably should have just changed the curb last summer.

I actually thought of putting heavy duty castor wheels on the back corner of the wheelhouse. Didn't think they manufactured things like that. I was thinking I'd weld it on.