trailer tongue
Silly question ! If ya gonna pull a trailer behind your TC and need a one foot extension on the hitch ball , which is better structurally , geometrically or what ever , a one foot extension or a one f...
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I have an 11.5 on a pickup. It needs a four-foot extension. I choose to stretch my trailer tongue because the physics are so much better.
Lots of people say if you do that you'll hit the camper on a steep angle, but you'll bottom out on the ground in the same place with an extended hitch. Neither is well suited for extreme off-roarding but in many thousands of miles I've never had a problem like that.
With only a one-foot trailer tongue stretch needed to clear your camper I think it would take a pretty extreme angle before you had a clearance problem.
Another benefit of stretching your trailer tongue instead of using a hitch extension is it makes one less thing you have to do every time you load or unload your camper.
Lots of people say if you do that you'll hit the camper on a steep angle, but you'll bottom out on the ground in the same place with an extended hitch. Neither is well suited for extreme off-roarding but in many thousands of miles I've never had a problem like that.
With only a one-foot trailer tongue stretch needed to clear your camper I think it would take a pretty extreme angle before you had a clearance problem.
Another benefit of stretching your trailer tongue instead of using a hitch extension is it makes one less thing you have to do every time you load or unload your camper.
