rlw999 wrote:
Gdetrailer wrote:
wowens79 wrote:
Gdetrailer wrote:
Can't figure out if you are serious or joking.
Might be a "good question" but a "pop up" and a 26+ ft trailer are two entirely different creatures when it comes to tongue weight.
Popup has what perhaps 200lbs-250 lbs on the tongue with a trailer weight of 1800 lbs - 3500 lbs, a empty 26ft TT will weigh in at a min of 5000 lbs and can have as much as 750 lbs on that tongue empty.. You are gonna have to have super human strength to pickup a 26ft trailer tongue by hand..
Not sure why you'd need to pick it up by hand, I'd just use a wheeled trailer jack. Put some plywood under if it if it's off road.
The harder part is getting a tongue on the back of the RV that he can hitch to his truck. Maybe some custom hardware to attach a toad tow bar.
But by the time he buys the wheeled jack and custom fits a tow bar, he's probably half way to the price of an electric tow dolly.
Nothing like chopping up conversations then reconstructing them to suit your view.
I was responding that moving a lightweight "popup" by "HAND" is vastly DIFFERENT than moving a REAL HEAVY 26ft TT..
2K lbs or so vs 5K lbs or so.. Someone IS going to get hurt or killed in the process once that trailer tongue is no longer adding friction to movement to the train wreck that is about to happen.
Folks HAVE been hurt or killed over the yrs attempting to stop their own vehicles that slipped out of "park", not sure why folks think trailers can't do the same..
Don't respect the weight, it won't respect you when it rolls right over you..
Safety should be priority, not stupidity.
Sometimes I think this forum is connected to the
DARWIN AWARDS website that highlight folks creative ways to get killed..
