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Me_Again
Aug 13, 2016Explorer III
johndeerefarmer wrote:
I am interested in the Anderson Ultimate (gooseneck ball mounted version) and want to know how much weight is on the truck bed? In other words will it bent my bed or put dings in it or is all of the weight on the ball?
This will work with the Ford/Reese gooseneck ball not just the B&W ball?
All the weight is on the bed floor. The gooseneck ball can not pull it down tight to the bed floor to hold it in place and hold it up at the same time. This is one of those internet myths that the ball holds up the pin weight.
If it was holding it up then be would be turning around above the bed floor.
The only Andersen hitch that transfers the weight directly to the trucks frame would be rail mounted on, and particularly one that is on a picture frame latched into a puck system.
Chris
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