5th Wheel Stabilizer Tripod Adapter

Me Again wrote:


Lifting the trailer the extra distance, the fact that the trailer can tip enough to contact the bed, the chance of bed floor damage by the Andersen frame carrying the weight on the pickup bed vs the trucks frame and the requirement for safety chains to the reason's I would not want an Andersen.

Light weight and cost are the only pluses for Andersen. With a super lite trailer one might have a case for there use.

Like I previously said, you won't find hardly any information about the Andersen causing any bed deflection. It has such a large footprint that the possibility of bed deflection is almost completely eliminated. Perhaps in some heavy pin weight applications it could occur, but at that point, I believe you would need to be re-evaluating your entire rig.

The height of the Andersen isn't a problem. Its designed to have the same height configuration as traditional hitches. And I can't envision a situation where it would tip enough to hit the side of the truck (maybe unless you're towing a short 5'er and/or have a lifted truck). There's not anymore movement in this hitch arrangement than the normal side-to-side movement of traditional hitches.

Enough with the safety chain talk. That's been beaten to death.