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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 |
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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 http://www.hitchcorner.com/trailer-hitch-accessories.htm Hitch Extensions - Hitch Extensions For 2" Receivers
- Extends Your Hitch And Still Allows You To Tow
- You Lose 1/3 Of The Carrying Capacity Of Your Hitch
- These Extend Your 2" Receiver Out By The Following Lengths:
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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 |
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Location: Vermont | 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?? |
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Location: Albany, Oregon | Debbie, I would have gone the same way. Either way you are shifting the stress. IMO the longer toung trailer will back nice and ride smoother.
Edited by xyzer 2008-03-03 11:16 PM
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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 |
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Location: Vermont | 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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Location: Home of Wild Turkey Whiskey | I would think that any capable fabricator could extend a trailer tounge by 12". |
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Location: sc | Originally written by HWBar on 2008-03-07 8:54 PM
I would think that any capable fabricator could extend a trailer tounge by 12". Easily. The key word is "capable". |
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Location: Vermont | Please Post a Photo of the work... |
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