Fifth wheel to Gooseneck ????
Anyone have any problems with this setup? I just bought the gooseneck adapter and planning on installing it in the next day or so. I have a nice heavy square adapter that mounts directly to the fifth ...
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Me Again wrote:ranchertx wrote:
Anderson is NOT a Gooseneck adapter. That is where the confusion began. Lippert has no idea about the part number you gave them.
Contact Anderson Mfg, they will ease your mind.
They will not however give you a definitive answer on the safety chain question, and start saying well, if and depends. It is in fact a ball and coupler, and in many states will require safety chains. Which they now have as an option. Other than location it is no different than any other gooseneck hitch. It will still require the extra lifting and lower of the trailer to hitch and unhitch.
Someone ask them for a printed list of states that do not require safety chains with their hitch and see what they say. My guess is they will decline to provide that list.
Chris
And safety chains or not matters how when it comes to comparing possible additional stresses caused by GN adapters? Isn't that a purely subjective argument against using one, and as such, irrelevant to any discussion concerning frame stresses? As the Ultimate pulls from the same connection point as a kingpin, it certainly is not a traditional GN adapter and consequently, could be argued to not be one.
