im talking about deckover the tires, a float if you will.
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im talking about deckover the tires, a float if you will.
looking at that picture you posted ed, imagine the tongue weight w/o a rig behend their...even then you would probably only want one truck on there so you could take some of the tongue weight off.
im still not follwing you. here is what i was talking aboutQuote:
Originally Posted by agjohn02
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Originally Posted by Graystroke
If you were going to go through all the trouble of hacking a pop up (read: cheap) for this purpose, seems it would be even cheaper to just get a 20' bumperpull flat, and put a hitch to tow the pop up behind it. Then when the cheap piece of junk doesn't work anymore, you can throw it away and get another and not have to worry about more retrofitting. :D
You are right about that being some tounge weight w/ the setup I posted, but that is a purpose built rig and will probably see very little time w/ out rigs on it.
I have seen some cheap pop up campers for sale. $275-$1000 the are not hard to find. w/ the retro you don't have to worry about tires, lights, or registration/title.Quote:
Originally Posted by DRAGOONRANCH
Gooseneck car hauler. Something like this would be good?
http://dallas.craigslist.org/grd/734876476.html
Would need to haul two scouts or two impalas I would think, otherwise what is the point? (a '63 is like 18' long or something like that) So how long would it need to be, axle configuration, steel or wood deck? (preferred steel thus far) Just dreaming at this point.
watchu gonna pull it wif?
My friend Jerry has a dodge! Dad's been talking about getting a dmax.
why don't you just borrow my Dad's? It is a 34' w/ a 7' dovetail. The PO hauled Dodge/Plymouth Roadrunners, Darts, challengers two at a time.
oh yeah, he just put on an 8k ramsey winch too
Done deal if he wants to store it in Princeton and keep up maintenance on it! :gigem:
wha??? papa brune wif a diesel?
what's next, rowdy does a skinny chick?
Yeah, I thought you Dad swore off diesels after Fred woke up w/ a Adolf Hitler mustache.
I think he wants to get one so he can ***** about it.
Kind of like working on boats, I think he likes to have something to complain about. Either that, or the Dmax has convinced him all diesels aren't evil.
Wood deck. Steel deck + Texas sun = pain.
...and i wasnt discouraging a steel deck.
Finally got my dovetail going last weekend. Pics are following. Starting on moving the axles back about 8 inches and real fenders this afternoon and weekend. Had to take a Robbie picture too!:flipoff2:
looks heavy!
heavy is good...
How hard is it going to be to get into that toolbox where it's at? Other than that, lookin good.
Remove the jack from the tongue and put a swing jack on the side. Then but the box on the tongue.
I hate side jacks, especially lifting a heavy trailer. All of our small trailers have them. The tool box is really only for chains and straps, so whenever Im pulling the jeep, really wont matter. I can still open the lid about halfway with my bumper above me.
Didnt really want to use 5" channel for the slats on the dovetail, but its what I had at the time. The trailer is/was fairly light.
Why does it matter if the jack is on the side or in the middle. My swing away jack is mounted on the side and it seems to work just fine lifting the trailer with the Bronco on it. And I don't have to worry about bottoming out on the jack
I'm a dumbass or was drinking. I do have a swing away jack, but it is in the middle. I havent seen my trailer in a while and was thinking of my old car hauler. It working fine either way though.
sometimes on heavy trailers the swing jacks try to twist, but i perfer them
electric jack, its what high class rednecks use.
I have had too many people move a trailer with a hard mounted jack and either be too lazy or just forget to raise it all the way up and drag and bend it. That irks me to no end, so that's why all my stuff gets removable jacks. The toolbox there is nice as long as you don't need to go pick up a buddy's car or something that's not going to fit with it on there. :D I like it though, you will definitely be able to haul whatever you want on that one though.
Thats why we run side jacks on our work trailers. I hook up trailers and then take the jacks off and put them in a toolbox, so the canadicans cant bend them. I just prefer center frames.
I don't have any canadicans using my stuff most of the time, I have to worry more about family. :(
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Don't be knockin' my asian tourist picture takin'.:D
Looks good, nice and beefy. My dad bent the center solid mount jack on our little trailer a couple times after dragging it over rocks out at the ranch. We ended up building a flat skid which raised the jack. Now the foot of the jack is flush with bottom of the frame when it's all the way up.