Removing 5th wheel Hitch from pick up bed
Any good ideas on how to easily pull the hitch out of the truck bed so I can use truck for other activity? I need to temporarily remove my Reese 16K tube slider. I know to release it from the rails...
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glazier wrote:
Get a folding engine hoist ( cherry picker) with an extension for the boom.
1. Ditto the "cherry picker" engine hoist.
Check to see the arm is long enough to reach - you may have to purchase the "better" model.
2. The "one finger lift" -
One finger to push the button, another to give that heavy hitch "the bird".
Harbor Freight electric cable hoist. Size of a lunch pail, weighs about 30 lbs. Hang it from a rafter, or between to stable objects.
3. Chain hoist. Less money, more effort - same set-up.
Ditto a cable hoist
4. HF "crane" - intended to mount in p/up bed. Mount in your garage, or?
Lower onto a furniture dolly - roll it wherever you want.
All of the above have other uses - handy stuff!
If you like to just "hang around" - let it hang from your king pin.
Don't be surprised if folks you never met say, "How's it hanging?"..:W
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