Straight from B&W
OK, guys. Here's the straight scoop from a B&W engineer. As I contended in another thread, he said that the Turnover Ball base and Companion FW hitch =system=, carries the vast majority of the pin l...
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IdaD wrote:
My personal opinion is none of the turnover ball setups are as good as puck or rail setups. Not that they don't work because clearly they do, and a great many have had success with them, it just isn't my preference given the options on the market. I suppose the plastic strips on the B&W are nice to protect the bed ridges, but we're still talking about plastic strips resting on the sheetmetal bed floor. I'd rather have an unambiguous attachment straight to the truck frame.
Honestly I think the old fashioned rails are pretty hard to beat. You can use about any FW hitch you want with them, and it's also easy to drop a gooseneck adapter on them if you also have a stock or utility trailer. The tradeoff is having them in the bed when not towing, but the flexibility is unbeatable.
I agree the puck system is better!!! So does B&W because the fact is the exact same head and side pcs the head attaches to are the same on the 20K Companion and the Puck system 25K companion. B&W understands design limits and clearly Andersen is learning the hard way!
