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HadEnough
Explorer
Oct 21, 2018

What's the best way to break my rig while towing?

I have a 2002 Dodge Ram 2500 crew cab short bed. It's got an Arctic Fox 811, 4569lbs, fully loaded and wet, in the bed. I am getting ready to go south for the winter and need to bring about 15...
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jimh406
Explorer III
Oct 30, 2018
burningman wrote:
It’s not the shop’s fault if someone buys a trailer and jackknifes it too far just because that’s possible to do. I really hope you’re kidding!
ALL trailers have a point at which you’ll damage things, that’s up to the driver to figure out and watch.

I don’t just tow without an extension, as noted I stretched my trailer tongue longer to be able to do that.


Op said "They didn't give me a long enough extension". That implies to me that he was told he'd be ok. Maybe that's not the case.

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