Hauling a trailer with extended hitch?
Anyone ever haul a smaller travel trailer with the extended hitch ball rated for 6000lbs and 600lbs tongue weight? Curious if anyone has actually done it or seen someone do it and any issues they d...
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I was in a hitch shop a few years back getting some ideas on dumping the stock GM hitch for a decent class 5.
Saw a truck with a big TC on the back, towing a cargo trailer, slowly pulling in. Something looked really off kilter. I looked closer and the angle of the dangle on the hitch was hideously wrong.
This guy had about an 18 inch extension bar on his hitch to clear his TC. The weight of the cargo trailer tongue twisted his truck hitch downward so badly that it was pointing towards the ground on about a 45 degree angle. And the coupler point was off the ground maybe 3 inches.
His hitch was toast, wrecked from too much load on the extension bar. I'm surprised he actually drove the thing in like that.
The further out you extend the load, the more torque you apply to the hitch. I talked to the guy and funny coincidence, he was one of my customers from a year prior. I had built him a sunroom. He told me it was ok until he hit a big dip in the road. The extra weight from the load dipping down twisted his hitch like a pretzel.
I would never use one of those things unless you're carrying a bicycle rack or similar.
Saw a truck with a big TC on the back, towing a cargo trailer, slowly pulling in. Something looked really off kilter. I looked closer and the angle of the dangle on the hitch was hideously wrong.
This guy had about an 18 inch extension bar on his hitch to clear his TC. The weight of the cargo trailer tongue twisted his truck hitch downward so badly that it was pointing towards the ground on about a 45 degree angle. And the coupler point was off the ground maybe 3 inches.
His hitch was toast, wrecked from too much load on the extension bar. I'm surprised he actually drove the thing in like that.
The further out you extend the load, the more torque you apply to the hitch. I talked to the guy and funny coincidence, he was one of my customers from a year prior. I had built him a sunroom. He told me it was ok until he hit a big dip in the road. The extra weight from the load dipping down twisted his hitch like a pretzel.
I would never use one of those things unless you're carrying a bicycle rack or similar.
