Trailer Valet 5X with Drill Attachment

This worked great!!! Backing into our driveway is not even close to an option. So I pulled in unhitched the trailer and attached the Valet XL. Our trailer is 24’ long and 4800lbs dry and it moved it with ease. It was a 10 point turn but it went flawlessly. Left a few tire marks on the ground but they will wash off. We have a spite slope on our driveway but it was not problem. I could set the brake walk away and check my clearance. I used the drill attachment on the low gear and moved it all alone with no help.I would recommend this to anyone. Quality of the build is very sturdy and solid. I could see how there would be issues on not solid grounds as some people complain about but for our situation it worked perfectly!

I was hoping this would help us more easily get our 23' wake boat into its storage area. We are able to get the boat perfectly lined up and partway in with the truck, before we run out of cranking room in the offset approach. All the Trailer Valet XL had to do was push the trailer straight back less than 10 feet on clean and flat pavement. It didn't work.The Trailer Valet XL had a hard time pushing or pulling the trailer on the flat pavement, and absolutely could not push the trailer wheels over a less than 1" ridge where the cement pad met the pavement. We tried everything - making sure the trailer brakes were locked out, purchasing a new corded high-torque drill, using the hand crank, etc. The tires would just slip on the pavement, the unit would bind up, etc. Even adding weight on the tongue didn't help. We ended up just pushing it by hand with a couple of people, no problem doing it by hand - I was just hoping the Trailer Valet would be a one person solution and remove the dependency on having people around.This brings us to the heart of the matter - the energy and time expended with the Trailer Valet XL is probably more than just doing it another way. If you can't do it by hand, it is unlikely that the Trailer Valet will be able to do it effectively either.The Trailer Valet XL might work on a small light trailer, but only on flat pavement, and nowhere near its rated capacity - it might hold something bigger, but it won't move it effectively based on my hours of trying to get it to work. Traction with the small rounded tires seems to be the biggest issue for heavier trailers, as well as some issues with ratcheting and binding every now and then inside the unit.It's a good thought, but like everything else that seems too good to be true, it fails in its implementation.

I bought this for a previous trailer. It moved it pretty easily. My new trailer is smaller, so it moves even easier. It moves around on "hard" surfaces with no problem. However, I have to put boards down on my hard packed decomposed granite so the dolly wheels do not dig in. Buyers should keep in mind that any soft surface-pebbles, dg, grass etc. will cause the wheels to spin or dig in. Best to keep some boards around for soft surfaces. No fault of the product.

This item is a little misleading on the ease side of things. It is not nearly as stable as we anticipated. We have a very heavy 20' trailer, so the drill attachment would not crank it. The manual crank holds resistance in reverse if you let go at any point it will roll backward with any slight slope. It required an excessive amount of force and time between two grown men to move our food truck about 40-50 feet on a fairly flat surface. It did the job, but it was a lot more time consuming and physically demanding than anticipated with a heavy load. For the price this was disappointing and frustrating to say the least.

I am very pleased so far with this item. Essentially, I bought the next size up from what I technically needed by specs. My trailer weighs about 3,000 lb dry and has a tongue weight just under 300 lb. It is a Flagstaff pop-up camper which is designed for some light off-roading and so therefore has 15 in rims and a great deal of ground clearance.My driveway is not perfectly flat. There's ruts and it kind of lays to one side. It does take a little bit of torque to get it going, especially uphill. My Ryobi drill even with the larger heavier battery had a little bit of trouble getting it going but once it started it had no trouble maintaining. I was able to completely turn it around and reposition it in my driveway completely as designed.I give it 4 out of five stars because I do have some basic complaintsNumber one the way it's designed and how compact it is means you can't see where you're going unless you are backing yourself up. In which case you can look behind you. But if you're backing the trailer up against something or next to something, you have to stop multiple times unless you have a spotter.Number two the long handle you use to steer is also your break and does not lock into an upright position. So it is possible to essentially push down on it and accidentally engage the brakes partially which creates a grinding.Number three simply the position it puts you in whether you're using the hand crank or a drill. You're still bent over at the waist unless you're very short person.And finally there is no safety on the hand. Crank so if you're starting to go downhill and you release your brake, you better have a good handle on that hand crank otherwise it's going to spin around on you very fast and either whack you in the hand or the shin or something.I just got the unit so I have no idea how long it will last or about the quality of it. Although I will say it feels pretty solid and heavy and I suspect it will last a long time. As long as you don't get it wet, I don't intend to use it off-roading and I don't intend to get it muddy or wet but it is small enough at approximately 60 lb with a solid handle to throw in the back of the truck and take with me to a campsite and the odd event that for some reason I can't back it up with the truck. I would have the ability to potentially maneuver it with the trailer. Valet. I hate that it cost so much but I do see the value and I would recommend it to anyone.