tailswing

alternative tail swing

1. When turning a heavy vehicle, the movement of the rear portion of the vehicle in the opposite direction from the direction the front end turns.

   The tailswing radius may encroach over an active traffic lane or face interference from an obstruction.

   1999, Howard I. Shapiro, Jay P. Shapiro, Lawrence K. Shapiro, Cranes and derricks, →ISBN, page 268

   3 more examples

   The authorities provided the boats, and Smalley mounted machines on them that could dredge and clear weed, working in shallow waterways under low, narrow bridges, unhindered by a counterweight tailswing.

   1994, David Needham, Robert Dransfield, Business Studies, →ISBN, page 133

   Still, spookiness is a contextual matter, and with a zero-tailswing excavator to clear a larger patio, there'd be nothing to stop an enterprising self-builder taking advantage of the fundamentally sound Cotswold stonework to knock up an attractive, if isolated, starter home or holiday cottage.

   2011, Nat Segnit, Pub Walks in Underhill Country, →ISBN

   ...they wouldn't be able to employ the 911's tailswing characteristics with the neutral handling 914/6, and none of them challenged the Alpine Renaults for outright supremacy.

   2014, Johnny Tipler, Porsche Carrera: The Air-Cooled Era, 1953-1998, →ISBN