Posted 2008-03-02 5:59 AM (#78450) Subject: tongue extension
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Posts: 51 Location: Jeddo, MI
After much feedback and questions I finally had my trailer tongue extended on my bumper pull trailer. I needed an additional 12" due to my truck camper and trailer being too close. My choices were to buy the superhitch at about $800 or take my truck to a fabricator and see if the tongue could be extended safely. I chose the tongue extension and am very pleased with the way it handles and the extra room I now have for tight turns. The fabricator also installed hd weight distribution bars to work with the extension. Debbie
Posted 2008-03-02 2:03 PM (#78481 - in reply to #78450) Subject: RE: tongue extension
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Posts: 3853 Location: Vermont
Originally written by dbelling on 2008-03-02 6:59 AM
After much feedback and questions I finally had my trailer tongue extended on my bumper pull trailer. I needed an additional 12" due to my truck camper and trailer being too close. My choices were to buy the superhitch at about $800 or take my truck to a fabricator and see if the tongue could be extended safely. I chose the tongue extension and am very pleased with the way it handles and the extra room I now have for tight turns. The fabricator also installed hd weight distribution bars to work with the extension. Debbie
Posted 2008-03-03 4:39 AM (#78518 - in reply to #78481) Subject: RE: tongue extension
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Posts: 51 Location: Jeddo, MI
Not a hitch extension...This did not seem like a safe option to me. I had a welder extend the tongue on my trailer. It seemed with a hitch extension there would be just too much force on that bar. Maybe it would have worked but I went with the tongue extension just to be safe while pulling horses. Debbie
Posted 2008-03-03 6:02 PM (#78567 - in reply to #78518) Subject: RE: tongue extension
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Originally written by dbelling on 2008-03-03 5:39 AM
Not a hitch extension...This did not seem like a safe option to me. I had a welder extend the tongue on my trailer. It seemed with a hitch extension there would be just too much force on that bar. Maybe it would have worked but I went with the tongue extension just to be safe while pulling horses. Debbie
How did his BRACE the extension that he welded in??
Posted 2008-03-05 5:00 AM (#78675 - in reply to #78567) Subject: RE: tongue extension
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Posts: 51 Location: Jeddo, MI
I am not sure what your question is about Brace but this is what the fabricator did: He removed the coupler from the tongue, built the tongue out 12" longer with a solid piece of steel and added the coupler back on. Also he moved the wd brackets so that I could use them with my existing hitch. Debbie
Posted 2008-03-06 1:49 PM (#78813 - in reply to #78675) Subject: RE: tongue extension
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Originally written by dbelling on 2008-03-05 6:00 AM
I am not sure what your question is about Brace but this is what the fabricator did: He removed the coupler from the tongue, built the tongue out 12" longer with a solid piece of steel and added the coupler back on. Also he moved the wd brackets so that I could use them with my existing hitch. Debbie
If it is just a straight tub of steel out from the frame, without any diagonal cross-supports back to the mainframe, for the extended 12 in...you could actually bend it in a non-linear stressful event,(i.e. the truck and trailer are not in a straight line)
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