Bumper carrier fail..
Yesterday we were following a fifth wheel over a bridge. As we hit a bump on the bridge , the carrier on the bumper broke off ,and the generator on the carrier went bouncing across the road. We were a...
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Many people think a bumper is.. Well, a Bumper.. Most Travel Traliers, be they TT's or 5Ers do not have rear bumpers.. They have a sewer hose storage container.
A Bumper... Is designed to Bump with.. It can take and absorb a fairly decent impact... A hose container is very thin, metal, and a your average tree rodent (Squirrel) can hit it hard enough to dent it. The load carryig capacity is somewhere around 10-20 pounds.. (The tray that held that generator) expecting it to hold anything at all, other than the sewer hose, is asking a lot of it.
A Bumper... Is designed to Bump with.. It can take and absorb a fairly decent impact... A hose container is very thin, metal, and a your average tree rodent (Squirrel) can hit it hard enough to dent it. The load carryig capacity is somewhere around 10-20 pounds.. (The tray that held that generator) expecting it to hold anything at all, other than the sewer hose, is asking a lot of it.
