How Wide is a Dually? Always Need Dually Jacks?

I was selling an Eleven footer once and I told a buyer that if he wanted to load it on his 1/2 ton that I wanted cash in my hand before he tried leaving my drive because that was where he would lose it.Missed that sale.

BFL13 wrote:
... My ad says it weighs 3,000lbs. ( I had it on the scales) I will speak up if a buyer only has a 1/2 ton and seems clueless. It will depend on each situation, but I agree in general, that if they are over 21, it is mostly up to them.

I am not worrying about what I should do. It is an interesting point though--where to draw the line and not take the money if offered. Not really a problem when everyone involved is a grown-up. ...

I think this is reasonable. Even though you and I may be partial to a given truck or truck color, does this mean it can't haul a given trunk?

Ok, with my between jacks spacing now 90 inches, it will need swing outs AND extensions. (or fixed extensions, "depending") I see some examples of that on Google images, but didn't understand. Thanks.

I added swing out brackets on my Arctic Fox 811 when I upgraded to my DRW - The flat bed deck is 8' wide from rub rail to rub rail. The guys that have trouble are the ones with campers that are narrower than 8' because the swing out brackets don't get the jacks out far enough to clear the truck. Using some channel stock, you could make fixed extensions as long as you keep the jacks within 8.5' width.

JFYI The old cable jacks will load it on a dually truck.I use old cable jacks to stabilize my camper off the truck and I just went and looked,the cable jacks are actually wider than the slide out brackets.Coupled with the jacks you already have,you could load it on a dually with the cable jacks.

I unzipped my cover to take a picture and show you and others that these will work in emergencies for buying or selling a camper without dually brackets...It will get you home to do it right.

wanderingbob wrote:
The swing out brackets are pretty easy to make , the bolts and steel should cost less than 30 bucks . I think I had to drill twelve holes .

That might be good idea for 2500lb camper, but I straighten out the dually brackets that come on used 6500 lb campers quite a bit.
Turn out at some years Atwood was making extenders with single lock on the pin, and those were very easy to crimple.
I am a welder, but I can't machine the locks like factory machine shop does.

Hey it took almost 5 hours for this thread to be investigated by the weight police. They must be slipping......

Overloading only counts when the chips are down and you cannot stop or have to do an evasive manuver and cannot.

Reddog1 wrote:
How could you be taking advantage if you are honest? You can only tell them what you know and what you think.

It is easy if they ask. The issue was raised how much to tell a newbie if he doesn't ask.

My ad says it weighs 3,000lbs. ( I had it on the scales) I will speak up if a buyer only has a 1/2 ton and seems clueless. It will depend on each situation, but I agree in general, that if they are over 21, it is mostly up to them.

I am not worrying about what I should do. It is an interesting point though--where to draw the line and not take the money if offered. Not really a problem when everyone involved is a grown-up.

That is another thing where we boxed ourselves in. It is not a "hunter's special" anymore after our upgrades and renos, so we are out above that market, but it is still an "oldie"

I prefer the Class C we just got instead, so no more scary loading and unloading the slide-in camper without knocking it over. I hate it being up high on its jacks all kind of wobbly until I can get it down on the truck or its stands. (No nerves of steel like you real TC guys have :) )

(Camper is 11 ft renovated 1981 and is heavy)

Most of the older 10-11 ft campers were not all that heavy compared to today's standards.My last 10ft 1982 Security worked well on just a 3/4 truck with overloads.Sold it about 9 years ago for $600...Dinette against front cab and porta potti room with none of the heavy stuff.

While adding dually brackets would be a plus and open up who could buy it, but for the older campers in the 70-80's, it's kinda a different buyers club.There in the paper here as hunting rigs from about $500 to $1000/$1500 for a really good one with jacks.Quite a few of them for sale.

Decisions/decisions huh..Good luck in selling it.