Bar for snap up brackets

Huntindog wrote:

wanderingbob wrote:
Here is what ya do . Picture how much you raise the back of the truck when ya lift on the bars , lets say three inches .So you place the trailer hitch about three inches above the ball , put on the bars just hand snug . Then as you lower trailer the bars will tension up and take the load , if it does not feel right ya can still use the pipe. I have owned more than ten TTs and I still do Jack Rabbitt deliveries hitching and unhitching well above one hundred times a year . It works very well . Surely there are many out there who do the same .

There are a FEW things that don't compute.
But I am open minded. There has got to be a video of this somewhere. UTube seems to have one on everything.

Seeing is believing. Show me a video, and I will believe it.

I’m trying to picture this too but I think it can work. If you consider from when the hitch just drops onto ball to the final resting point the hitch and the ball will travel down the same amount. Meanwhile the ends of the bars will drop more than that amount and the chain mounts on the trailer drop less, thus tightening the chains. It seems the starting with the hitch above the ball results in more slack but perhaps that’s the amount needed. I would have to try this to see it work.