There's always a limit on downward force on trailer coupler. Car on trailer too much forward....
Grossly overloaded Dodge 3500 w/truck camper - frame visibly flexing
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Looked up the specs on that slide-in. The current model of it is a Lance 1172, and the dry weight, before you add anything in it, is 4318#.
That's a lot of weight in that truck bed, before you add on what is probably at least 5-1000# of tongue weight.
I wish we had a good picture of the hitch setup. I'll bet that is a butt-clenching contraption on top of everything else.
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Silly me, someone makes a hitch for that kind of setup:
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That's a lot of weight in that truck bed, before you add on what is probably at least 5-1000# of tongue weight.
I wish we had a good picture of the hitch setup. I'll bet that is a butt-clenching contraption on top of everything else.
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Silly me, someone makes a hitch for that kind of setup:
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GON
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4300 pounds is a lot of weight. And that weight is not low gravity weight. A base Mercedes s class is about that weight. Imagine having a s class in the bed of a pickup.
Wow...
Being redundant here, but how could he not see that? Hope he doesn’t kill anyone when that mess comes apart or weaves into the wrong lane.
So I have a "Fleetwood Jamboree Searcher" 23' class C RV.
The 1-ton Econoline frame makes it to the rear axle. It's a nice frame, but it ends 6-7 feet forward of the rear bumper.
The coach builder got some 2x4-inch (?) angle iron and built the deck "way out" under the bed & bath section, and hung the water tanks there too. It was hard finding a tow spec for the receiver hitch but I think it's 5k.
No way, uh-uh... and this is something integrated by one party!
The armchair physicist in me wants to see this mess rolling down the road, and flexing, to continue my judgement. From a safe distance.
The 1-ton Econoline frame makes it to the rear axle. It's a nice frame, but it ends 6-7 feet forward of the rear bumper.
The coach builder got some 2x4-inch (?) angle iron and built the deck "way out" under the bed & bath section, and hung the water tanks there too. It was hard finding a tow spec for the receiver hitch but I think it's 5k.
No way, uh-uh... and this is something integrated by one party!
The armchair physicist in me wants to see this mess rolling down the road, and flexing, to continue my judgement. From a safe distance.
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There is no vertical load in the methods I posted - flat tow = 4 down
Whereas loads in tensile and compression are easier to manage …
If you look where that Jeep sits on the trailer - he has a very heavy tongue load on a fulcrum of great length …
Those are very capable trucks if used correctly
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It's probably didn't look like that when he left Albuquerque.
TFL truck had a segment where the same truck (3500 dually Ram) actually bent in half from a slide-in camper.
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OVERKILL
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And then he'll blame the truck, not the fact that he's a mental midget who doesn't understand basic physics.
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That's an optical illusion; although it appears to be part of the building in the background, it's actually a large concrete slab of the same colour, loaded on top of the Jeep to increase the tongue weight to the desired 75%. (Just kidding ...)
Book larnin' is so overrated.
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That’s another way to think about it.
Combined with purchasing prices then he should have just done it right
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