Travel Trailer receiver hitch hook up

DutchmenSport wrote:

OutdoorPhotographer wrote:

Terryallan wrote:
Like as not. In the time before receiver hitches, and believe it or not. That wasn't that long ago. Most trailers were towed with a Step bumper hitch, Not a bumper hitch, a step bumper hitch. MOST Step bumper hitches were rated for 500lb weight carrying tongues weight, and 5000lb weight carrying trailer weight, AND they still are. Is it safe to tow with the step bumper? Of course it is, as long as you don't go over the weight capacity of the bumper.

To use a WDH, you had to have a special made for your TV hitch installed. Trucks did NOT come with a hitch of any kind. They did NOT even come with a rear bumper. Bumpers were an option as late as the early 90s. No light wiring kit, no brake control kits. All of it was add on.

So for us. The step bumper was the hitch. Any thing we wanted to tow was hooked to the step bumper hitch, Boats, whatever. The only thing that got a special hitch was a TT.

So when you see a step bumper with a drop hitch on it. Get over it.

Yep, no bumper. Painted was one price and chrome much higher. I think if you go back further, the chrome bumper was standard.

Your posts reminded me, my 1985 Chevy S10 had a bumper like this too. I put a ball on it and towed 2 different pop-up campers. Never had any problems.

My dad had, and later on I owned, a 1970 F-250. It was sold without a bumper dad got a bumper form Luverne Manufacturing It was a AG hitch bumper with springs built into the spot where you hitched a wagon to to absorb the shock of pulling a wagon. It could also be swung side to side to make hitching up easier. Then it would reset itself back to the middle. We used to haul grain to town in the back of the pickup and to get the grain out they had a lift that went under the front tires of the pickup and lifted the front of the pickup up to dump the grain out of the box. The pickup would get so high in the air that the truck was balancing on the corners of that back bumper.

That was back in the day when things were built tough.

Well what do you know. Luverne Manufacturing is still in business

http://www.luvernetruck.com/index.html