Pick up to Trailer space

Second Chance wrote:
No - nor would you want to. Anything heavier than one of the utility trailers you buy at Lowe's or Home Depot would put too much weight on an extended draw bar. If you have a weight distributing hitch, that also wouldn't work. If you don't have a locking Tonneau cover with the need to lock the tailgate for security, you might consider a fifth wheel tailgate with the notch cut-out. It would keep stuff in the bed but you could lower it with the notch clearing the electric tongue jack. I had the same complaint when we pulled a travel trailer so I understand your frustration.

Rob

HOGWASH ... using any of the normally available longer drawbars (the longest I think is around 16 to 18") are great options which MANY, MANY of us here have done with no impact on either the receiver or WDH system. I've been using one since 1981 ... that's 36 years and close to 150K+ miles of towing. While in theory a longer drawbar has more leverage we're only talking about a few inches NOT FEET and I believe all receivers are designed and spec'd to handle the longest normally available drawbars and I think but could be mistakened, but Ron G. did some calculations several years ago and found that contrary to the obvious a longer drawbar actually lessened the forces on the tow vehicle and receiver over a shorter drawbar. In fact no receivers nor WDH systems to my knowledge have any specs re:drawbar lengths/limitations so anyone trying to put some on these systems IMO doesn't know what they are talking about.


Larry