Readybrute elite

Sometimes takes my across the street neighbor five minutes to hookup and sometimes thirty but she does it all alone and hasn’t complained about the weight.

My BlueOx is easy.

I’m surprised you find it heavy. I have a Ready Brute and have been using it since 04.

Its aluminum so they don’t get a lot lighter. One thing I learned is to put a pin in the base plate on one side to balance one arm while you connect the other.

Not sure if there are vids on YouTube.

If you mean that mounting the tow bar on the MH is heavy and awkward then I agree. However once mounted I have no reason to remove my tow bar or related toad equipment. While I have a different brand tow bar they are all somewhat similar.

More explanation about what what you are experiencing may help.

My Roadmaster Falcon2 is fairly easy to hook to my Jeep and before that a Chevy Sonic. The arms have to be be fairly heavy to take the stress. Can’t see how a Readybrute would be much lighter. But picking it up to insert into the receiver hitch on the mh is a chore, so it never comes off.

CA Traveler wrote:
However once mounted I have no reason to remove my tow bar or related toad equipment.

Occasionally when travel season is over I'm remove the toad cross bar and brackets. The biggest aspect of the removal is to use a wrench to remove the 2 shackles that attach the safety cables to the toad.

The tow bar can bind making disconnecting harder. The Roadmaster All Terrain makes binding less likely but does not eliminate it all together.

Part of the problem is we remove the tow bar from the receiver hitch after every trip so it's a real pain to get it set up again. My husband removes the tow bar because he thinks the clevis (I think that's what it's called) bends from the weight of the tow bar when it's put in the stow position. He doesn't like to "mess with it" so I find myself driving the CRV behind the motorhome on short trips. I'm tired of driving the car and would like to ride inside our motorhome (as a passenger). As you can tell this may be a couples disagreement issue, but there isn't a forum topic for this one. LOL

I'm doubtful that anything bends but no visual. And if a clevis pin or something does bend then I wouldn't tow with it, period.

Possible suggestion but trying to stay out of counseling. Take it to a Ready Brute dealer and have it evaluated. And remind hubby that "if the wife is not happy no one is".

You guys are in a minority of one that remove the tow bar from the MH. That type of design which retains the weight on the MH vs the toad is one of the better design points.

We have a ready brute elite and have never taken it off the MH in two years. We use a locking hitch pin and just make sure nothing will dangle down on the road and and take it all over the place either with or without the toad attached.

I really don't think you'll have an issue just leaving it on there and it will save a lot of hassle.

As to the weight, a ready brute elite is mostly aluminum so I doubt you'd find one any lighter.

P.S...I'd also NOT recommend switching to a dolly if you are looking for easier...as it wont' be :)

The Ready Brute Elite is listed at 44 pounds. I pull ours off after most trips as I'll overnight it on the street to clean and unload. It isn't so much the weight but it is awkward to carry.

As far as the clevis being too weak to stow the bar it works fine. I put a short bungee on it to make sure it doesn't pop off when traveling.