how much weight can i tow?
I have the setup in my signature. The camper unloaded is 3500 pounds. I believe my truck towing capacity is 12K. It moves my camper with ease. So, with the unloaded camper on the truck, roughly how...
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burningman wrote:
Stretching the trailer tongue effectively increases the trailer's length and that in itself also helps it tow straighter. Everything is good about doing it this way and everything is bad about extending the hitch. I don't understand why I seem to be the only person who does it!
Hitch extensions are simpler, come pre-engineered and ready to go out of the box. Every tongue extension is a custom one-off job that has to be designed and fabricated properly to be safe on the road.
Anybody can turn a wrench, stuff a square tube in a socket, and stick a pin in a hole.
Few people can plasma the front off their trailer and fabricate a whole new tongue that would be considered safe for road use. I know I wouldn't want some incompetent hack's dingleberry welding coming apart next to me on the highway.
