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Ron750 · 03-19-2025, 09:37 AM

We’ve had a Master Tow Dolly for about a month. My wife came up too aggressively and overshot the basket so now the two front wheels are hanging over.
I called Master Tow and their experienced guy Ronnie retired, so they don’t have any ideas how to get it off.
I think I’ll have to get someone with two floor jacks, jack up the wheels and put blocks underneath it and then back it off but I’m wondering if it has happened to anybody and how they got it off.
I would post a picture, but I don’t remember how to do that on this forum.

d23haynes57 · 03-19-2025, 09:45 AM

Tow truck with a wheel lift. Under carriage may need inspection for damage. If you have towing insurance should cover it.

Flyer15015 · 03-19-2025, 11:02 AM

What kind of toad?
Can you jack the center of the toad and slip a pair of 2 x 6's under the wheels to drive it back to the dolly saddle?
Pictures would help.

Mike in Colorado

PS89 · 03-19-2025, 03:38 PM

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I think I’ll have to get someone with two floor jacks, jack up the wheels and put blocks underneath it and then back it off but I’m wondering if it has happened to anybody and how they got it off.

Yeah, that happened to me...only I did myself.

I got out of the jam exactly as you described. Since I was in my driveway at home, I was bale to use the floorjack alternately on each side, paving blocks under the tires, until I got the tires high enough to drive the toad backwards off the blocs and back onto the dolly. I also took the wheels off the dolly and let its frame rest on the ground so I didn't have to raise the front of the toad as high.

Ironically, I was loading up the toad so I could drive back from the body shop where I was dropping off the MH for paint and body work. Hoo boy...

MemByTheMile · 03-19-2025, 03:55 PM

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Originally Posted by Ron750

We’ve had a Master Tow Dolly for about a month. My wife came up too aggressively and overshot the basket so now the two front wheels are hanging over.
I called Master Tow and their experienced guy Ronnie retired, so they don’t have any ideas how to get it off.
I think I’ll have to get someone with two floor jacks, jack up the wheels and put blocks underneath it and then back it off but I’m wondering if it has happened to anybody and how they got it off.
I would post a picture, but I don’t remember how to do that on this forum.

Yikes! Sorry to hear,

Sounds like you have great experienced advice from others already.
Let us know how it works out.

Kayakist · 03-19-2025, 06:07 PM

Happened to me. Tow truck used slings to lift the front of our Kia Soul up and I drove forward to free the dolly. Luckily no damage, only about $100 for the job. We were lucky.

Unplanned Tourist · 03-19-2025, 06:38 PM

If you were in Australia, you would have said "Bugga!"

Blocks and lowering onto the blocks by taking the wheels off the dolly would work for sure.

followingsea · 03-19-2025, 06:45 PM

I used bottle jack to raise the TOAD.

I used my Honda Del Sol on forest service roads so I kept a couple bottle jacks and other gear in case I got stuck in the middle of nowhere.

When I overshot the tow dolly and was jacking it up, another camper brought over a 'tall' bottle jack that worked really good.

I also installed a 4 x 4 block of wood to prevent it from happening.

jacwjames · 03-19-2025, 06:54 PM

Just visualizing

Can you

set the park brake on the towed vehicle
Wife in toad
Slowly pull coach/RV forward
Wife puts the toad in reverse and tries to climb back up on the dolly.

Just a SWAG

I was involved in quite a number of equipment recoveries in underground mines in a lot worse situations then this.

Ron750 · 03-19-2025, 09:58 PM

Hi. Sorry I didn’t post earlier. Long day. One of the ladies at the RV park , got her husband to help me. A RV tech. I put on the parking brake and blocked the back wheels. Put some blocks behind them too.
He patiently used a bottle jack and put some 6x6, and 4x4 under the front wheels. My BIL suggested deflating the dolly tires which we did and that gave us a few more inches and I drove right off. A better ending than I initially imagined. We had already ripped the lower fairing off because they didn’t tell me to get a ramp extender when I bought the Tow Dolly. So the only additional damage was a little bit dented air-conditioning condenser and my wallet is $140 lighter.

If we keep our RV, I’ll probably look into getting a different car and flat towing it, but I think we’ve already screwed up in every way possible on the tow dolly and hopefully shouldn’t have any more mishaps. I’m going to buy a magnetic flag and put it on the trailer so my wife knows when to stop.

Alan_Hepburn · 03-20-2025, 08:45 AM

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Originally Posted by followingsea

...another camper brought over a 'tall' bottle jack that worked really good.

A tall bottle of "Jack" will make you feel better about the situation...

1stimerveer · 03-20-2025, 02:32 PM

Just went thru a similar situation trying to change a tire on my old truck.
The scissors jack couldn't get the truck high enough to get the tire off. I ended getting some blocks out and used a bottle jack to raise it the 2 inches I needed.
Managed to get the spare on and reversed the process, lowering the bottle jack first, removed it and the blocks and used the scissors jack to get the truck down the rest of the way.
Bought a couple of jack stands after that to make the operation a bit safer.

Safe travels and all the best.