Add a Hitch?

My cousin installed a 2" receiver on the back of his toy hauler, and installed a tilt-a-rack for one of his motorcycles. It also helps to take some weight off his overloaded hitch.

As long as your toys are not taking to much weight off the hitch, you will be fine. Make sure that the hitch and mounts are up to the stress. Consider that you will be taking 300 - 500 pounds and placing it about 18" behind the frame mounts, and then pushing down hard. It is like taking a torque wrench and pushing down with 750 foot pounds of pressure. Thick steel can take this stress, while connecting to hallow tubing will not.

http://www.discountramps.com/tilt-a-rack-carriers/c/BRAND-TAR/

Good luck,

Fred.

Thanks, just want to carry the dirt bike that weights around
260 lbs.

The tilt-a-rack should work well. I would contact a couple of welding companies and then go visit them. If they can do the work, find out if you must make an appointment and what time works well with them. You do not want to show up with a 30' trailer and them not be ready for you, with no quoted price.

If you go in and find out their labor rates, find out if you need to buy something or not, perhaps they need to order a hitch extension to weld to the cross pieces that they have on the shelf.

Good luck,

Fred.

We are currently making the back of my parents trailer to pull doubles. We took the old bumper and out riggers off. We are replacing them with 3/16" 2x3" tubing. Each tube will be about 6' long welded to the frame of the trailer. The weight of these dirt bikes will be about as much tongue weight we will have. You don't want to put a 400lb bike back there with just a tilt rack. There will be a lot of bouncing and stress put on the metal just from that alone. We notice the metal used on my parents reach was barely hair thin. It only had a 200lb capacity cargo capicity. The rack may be rated to hold the bike, but the support holding the rack may not. JMO.

Have a hitch / welding fab shop built you a hitch, then buy this: http://versahaul.com/

Have you thought about adding a hitch to the front of your TV? I have done that for my yz450f and a 4'x8' rack that hung off the rear of my 27' TT that carried a Yamaha raptor quad. I think you would be better off with a front mount hitch on the TV. Not sure what your TV is though.

Check with your trailer manufacturer before adding a hitch. Some wont warranty if you add one.

Also keep in mind the back of the trailer bounces around a lot and you have no way of keeping an eye on a motorcycle back there. Better be a strong hitch.