Motormover ...... What distance ??
hello yesterday we managed the daunting task of pulling our old heavy caravan onto the driveway: i say daunting because its a tight turn , with very high kerbs , a lampost at the narrow gate and a curving drive on a steep slope, plus we have to drive over a high pathway altho the kerb is dropped, 18 months ago we wouldnt attempt it ...but we spent 2016 getting out and about ,went on two cc towing courses at bishop burton and voila we cracked it ! But my question is ..we used motormover to turn caravan around in drive ,so does anyone know how long a motor mover will work till the battery is tired ,the caravan has two batteries and two solar panels ... Was curious as it did quite a lot of shuffling to get in position ,altho struggled uphill as i think caravan a bit heavy for the old mover thanks best regards mrs bc:)
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When we get home, we have to turn the caravan through 180 degrees (which involves a fair bit of backward and forward shuffling on our shared driveway) then I take it through the garage and then another 40 or 50 ft across a lawn, with some more forward / backward shuffling.
It manages all that with no problem, if that helps?
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It's near impossible to say without knowing the distance involved, the gradient, the state of your battery, the type of terrain, the efficiency of the mover and so on. I think it's a try it and see job.
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Thanks for prompt response ive fetched it"home" for a service as its normally kept in storage ,and they dont allow servicing on the premises . But will also give it a spring clean too ......must say motor movers are the bees knees
cheers mrs bc..... We live on a busy road and i wish i'd video'd the last time we moved it off the drive the absolute impatience of drivers ! On 30 mph village road ......beggars belief 
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We had an instance of impatient people when we first had the caravan. The problem was caused by others blocking our driveway.
When I was being verbally abused, for a fair few minutes; as I finally pointed out to the iriot dishing it out, that whilst he had been shouting, the caravan had not moved an inch. Had he shut up and let me get on with the move it would have been out of the way. I was quite happy to have a verbal argument and leave the caravan whilst that was happening. Should he wish to take up the blocking of my driveway by others that had been causing traffic chaos in contravention of the law and the highway code, he was very welcome. I get those vehicles towed away now if they block my egress to the highway.
Have had people crash the kerb and drive onto my driveway and on the footpath as I've manoeuvred the caravan into the road to hitch up. All to save 30 seconds.
Motor movers are great. I've moved the caravan on a very tight site, up hill round corners, through width restrictions and round tents, all in about 300 yards and still had loads of power left.
Maybe a test of how far round an obstacle course on a mover will form part of the next caravanner of the year
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I have moved mine 100ms on soft ground with the jockey wheel complaining a bit. Done mostly out of curiosity as I could have hitched up but decided to see how far it would go. It was a useful exercise as not long after I was on a CL without hookup and the gas fridge failed so I was able to move to a hookup pitch with confidence on the mover. No idea if slopes and turns make any difference though.
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