Need a lift for my 5th wheel hitch

Cummins12V98 wrote:
I was given a mind altering substance.

Get a neighbor kid to help load and unload your hitch. Teach em the value of work = money.

When it drops on his ankle or foot.....YOU may be given an *economical* altering substance - a summons when his parents "pursue legal avenues" to recoup medical bills, etc...:(

Even if *he* doesn't know the result associated with the/an injury - bet his parents do = your (or your Hm Owners Ins Company)...value of a work injury = money...:S

Bad Karma - but it is what it is. We live in a litigious society!

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My hitch is hanging on the king pin as we speak. Why go through all the gyrations?

wanderingbob wrote:
I sometimes leave the hitch attached to the trailer , pull the pins and the trailer jacks will lift the hitch and trailer off of the truck . Never have to lift .Leave the hitch hang until you need it again , reverse to install !Literally!!!

I saw this suggestion previously, and thought it would be a pretty good idea. I have a portable gantry crane 12 ft high and 12 ft wide with an air powered chain hoist on it, so I would be lifting it out with a strap and setting it on a harbor freight furniture dolly, but I don't have/don't want a 5th wheel, so that wont happen, but leaving it attached to the trailer is a pretty good idea.

Charles

I was given a mind altering substance.

Get a neighbor kid to help load and unload your hitch. Teach em the value of work = money.

Cummins12V98 wrote:
Get an ANDERSEN.

If you get an ANDERSEN.... maybe you can join the owner of Andersen Hitches (with his family) for a .......

PHOTO OPPORTUNITY

Great recommendation.... :h...with links.


:W

I use a chain fall, three short chains and a tree branch. Hoist it off the bed, pull the truck forward and lower it onto a trailer.

wanderingbob wrote:
I sometimes leave the hitch attached to the trailer , pull the pins and the trailer jacks will lift the hitch and trailer off of the truck . Never have to lift .Leave the hitch hang until you need it again , reverse to install !

That's what I plan on doing when I need to remove it. Only thing I might do different is lower it onto a cart and wheel it into the garage.

Mike

Cummins12V98 wrote:
Get an ANDERSEN.

What!!! Did your keyboard get stuck :B

Get an ANDERSEN.

wanderingbob wrote:
I sometimes leave the hitch attached to the trailer , pull the pins and the trailer jacks will lift the hitch and trailer off of the truck . Never have to lift .Leave the hitch hang until you need it again , reverse to install !

Otherwise I use this for loading stuff: Hydraulic Table