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MFL
Feb 02, 2016Nomad II
Searching_Ut wrote:
After this weekend, I've gone from pleased with my Andersen Ultimate to being now a downright super fan. I had to run up to ND to rescue the Son in Law who has been working the oil fields up there living out of a presidential suites triple axle fifth wheel.
Set up the Andersen hitch to max height initially since I had to back in at a pretty good angle with the truck on a fairly steep incline and the trailer sunk in the frozen ground. No problem hooking up, and the ease of adjusting the hitch was greatly appreciated. Once we got out to pavement after 3 or so miles of torn up frozen mud road, we readjusted the hitch and pulled the 650 miles to Rawlins through high winds, freezing rain, extremely icy roads for a couple hundred miles, and up to 6 plus inches of snow in whiteout conditions on the road from Casper to Rawlins. We saw dozens of vehicles off the road and a half dozen or so semis that had lost it and ended up in the ditch as an indicator of how bad some of the roads were. Even though I was probably overweight for a SRW truck the setup handled beautifully in the wind, through the curves, and on the ice. The lack of slop and good solid hookup worked like a charm.
That is a good testimonial for the truck and the Andersen hitch. Conditions couldn't have been worse, nor the terrain any tougher.
Sounds like the SIL is lucky to have the FIL too!
Jerry
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