Safety first, check this out

[OliverGuy]

This was on the back of a guy's trailer at breakfast this morning. Hope he wasn't going to pull too much with it.

 

[bison]

2 u bolts and welded to the frame.
That hitch is going to stay put.

 

[Janicholson]

I thought you were in reference to what appears to be the modified Right Rear suspension. Jim

 

[oldtanker]

(quoted from post at 13:48:27 05/16/15) 2 u bolts and welded to the frame.
That hitch is going to stay put.

Want to bet your life on it if you are on the same road and they got a trailer on there? How about the lives of your family?

Rick

 

[Ozlander]

(quoted from post at 13:26:48 05/16/15) This was on the back of a guy's trailer at breakfast this morning. Hope he wasn't going to pull too much with it.

Looks good to me.
He can't put a very big trailer with a lot of tongue weight on it.

 

[jeffcat]

Yea you can tow a portable cement mixer or something on your way to the mud pits. Takes all kinds of bozos.

 

[Bigbudsoda]

That's so someone won't still it at walmart.

 

[Adirondack case guy]

Bison, I think you are correct. Looks like welds to me on the frame.
Loren

 

[Russ from MN]

That's what I thought too! What is the big coil spring for?

 

[john *.?-!.* cub owner]

Looks to me like the welds are on the piece of angle iron that holds the floor boards in the trailer, and that iron is normally about 1 inch to a side and 3/32 thick at most, and is usually only tacked in place at the ends. Maybe enough to pull a mixer or log splitter, but not much more. I did not see any light connector, so probably not intended for an actual trailer.

 

[bison]

(quoted from post at 18:52:19 05/16/15) Looks to me like the welds are on the piece of angle iron that holds the floor boards in the trailer, and that iron is normally about 1 inch to a side and 3/32 thick at most, and is usually only tacked in place at the ends. Maybe enough to pull a mixer or log splitter, but not much more. I did not see any light connector, so probably not intended for an actual trailer.

ooks to me that is a 1/1/2" angle iron and doubled up over the trailer frame and reenforced again and welded to the hitch.

Kinda redneck way of mounting that hitch but Like i said, that hitch is staying put

 

[OliverGuy]

The whole setup was interesting, then a real fancy Polaris? Razor on the front. Stone on the trailer deck dribbling out while going down the road, one loose chain hooked to the underbelly of the 4 wheeler...

 

[NoNewParts]

hunting camp driveways/access roads can get pretty mean.
cars and citified trucks...no way
pull 2 trailers at a time up the 'last mile' with a real truck or crawler.
good idea.

 

[oldtanker]

Problem of the mix/log splitter idea is eventually most people who rig something like that are going to hook something bigger on it.

On a side note followed a guy the other day. 1/2 ton pickup, car trailer and a skid steer. Guy had the loader way to far forward on the trailer. Had the front of the truck so lite that he was shoulder to shoulder on the road. People can do dumb scary stuff.

Rick