So light a child can remove it from the truck
Check out This Video From Andersen on their new Aluminum Ultimate Fifth Wheel hitch... No this isn't the 9 minute version with a lot of bad acting. Just the good stuff. Game Changer? I don't ...
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N-Trouble wrote:labren wrote:
On the Andersen Hitch.......at times the ground could be uneven, and I am wondering if the 5th could drop down and contact the top of the sides of the truck bed? I believe a regular 5th wheel hitch would have some support to help alleviate this, but how would it work on the Andersen hitch....rotating on a hitch ball?
Thank you
5ers typically get dropped on truck beds because they fail to Completly lock the jaws around the kingpin. The landing gear gets fully raised then they takeoff and the kingpin slides out of the hitch and BOOM! A traditional 5er hitch does not help any in this scenario. Trailer will simply slide right off the back of the hitch.
Maybe I'm not following your logic above but I just can't see how someone could drop a 5er onto their bed rails with a ball/coupler attach. Yes anything is possible but you would have to be pretty distracted or just plain stupid to not be able to visually tell the coupler is not sitting entirely over the ball.
IMO any ball/coupler design is for the most part drop proof.
I am sorry, I probably was not clear enough. Lets say that you were driving on state park road or a farm yard road and it was tapered down quite a bit on the right side. Would the hitch ball give the 5th enough support so it would not contact the truck rail cap? I am just asking because I have heard of this happening if with a traditional 5th wheel hitch. I know the normal clearance is about 6".
