Built FORD Tough!
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Betarocker
Adventurer
Could it be that a welded on camper tiedown bar made the frame brittle?
usmcgunrock
New member
Those are two different vehicles but the same owner. He did it on his 2 separate vehicles by overloading it with the camper and trailer
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mobydick 11
Active member
So what is next F 550 ? Those are expensive book ends he is making.
Those are two different vehicles but the same owner. He did it on his 2 separate vehicles by overloading it with the camper and trailer
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He must be a slow learner. What's weird is the fact that he continued driving with the camper. How would you use a camper at that angle? Weird behaviour.
mobydick 11
Active member
Well I get that he is hard headed and stubborn like me . But think about the hanger bearing and U joint must be in the perfect spot or the drive shaft would have bent ,and he could not have continue driving . Ford has all the bases covered .
vintageracer
To Infinity and Beyond!
Dumba$$ SQUARED to the power of 2!
The 2nd picture with the F350 (top pic is F450) does NOT show a hitch extender.
The trailer tongue itself is extended, which is the proper way to do it.
Judging by the angle of the F450, I don't see an extender used either.
shade
Well-known member
To be fair, proper is a flexible term in this scenario. It's just varying degrees of wrong.
What's wrong with extending the tongue though? From a physics perspective it's no different than buying a longer trailer to begin with.
crazysccrmd
Observer
Extending the hitch and extending the trailer tongue both have the same effect on the truck and increase the leverage the trailer weight places on the truck. It’s like using a long breaker bar, you aren’t pushing any harder but the force exerted on the bolt is much higher.
Extending the receiver, yes, you're keeping the pin weight constant, but extending it further back, thus creating greater bending moment (about the rear axle as your pivot/fulcrum).
Extending the tongue does the OPPOSITE. Your hitch ball is at the exact same location as before - about 8" past the receiver. However, a longer tongue arm DECREASES tongue weight. Think about it, your trailer's CG is constant, your trailer axle(s) is your pivot/fulcrum. But now you've extended your moment arm (distance from tongue to trailer axle).
Therefore by extending the tongue and not the receiver, you're putting less load on the truck frame.
shade
Well-known member
I was referring to this, or unfortunately these, specific examples.
I agree that there's a difference between extending a trailer tongue and extending the drawbar. It appears that this guy had so many things wrong that it wouldn't matter much either way.
