My camper overhangs the back of my truck bed by 18", and extends approximately 12" behind the end of the receiver.
For the last few years I've been towing my enclosed utility trailer using a custom 12" extension and a standard 5000lb shank. Here it is in prototype stage, before I added some 15,000lb D-rings and safety chained it to the truck:
When I tow my big flatbed to a tractor show, I use a standard length shank directly in the receiver. This puts the tongue of the flatbed under the camper, and dangerously close to the underside of the camper. All I need to do is hit a hump wrong going into a gas station.
To whit, I have come up with an idea to utilize my existing extension along with a custom extra-long shank as a tube-in-tube extension:
This is for use with gross loads of <8000lbs. That covers most of my hauling needs. Heavier than that I would use the standard short shank.
Feel free to pick it apart.
For the last few years I've been towing my enclosed utility trailer using a custom 12" extension and a standard 5000lb shank. Here it is in prototype stage, before I added some 15,000lb D-rings and safety chained it to the truck:
When I tow my big flatbed to a tractor show, I use a standard length shank directly in the receiver. This puts the tongue of the flatbed under the camper, and dangerously close to the underside of the camper. All I need to do is hit a hump wrong going into a gas station.
To whit, I have come up with an idea to utilize my existing extension along with a custom extra-long shank as a tube-in-tube extension:
This is for use with gross loads of <8000lbs. That covers most of my hauling needs. Heavier than that I would use the standard short shank.
Feel free to pick it apart.
We use an 18 inch long ball mount ( measured from center of pin hole to center of ball hole) and it puts the ball 1" past the end of the camper and we have an extended tongue on the trailer.
