Don't need no stinkin' drop hitch!

[AustinBoston]

I just don't see why they didn't do it twice like the factory job in the other link.

You need to think like a bubba...that would be twice as much work.

Austin

[brainpause]

I don't think that the frame is "Bent" at that angle. Cut & welded would be more like it.

That looks like a 3 piece box frame tongue. I just can't see how they could possibly bend all 3 channels at the same time. If they did, it would weaken it more than 50%.

They could have cut a V in each channel, in the same spot, exactly the same size. Bend the lower part up, then weld the channel back together and reinforce it by welding plates over the cuts.

I just don't see why they didn't do it twice like the factory job in the other link.

I got close enough to tell that it was bent, not cut.   :yikes:

Larry

[wavery]

I got close enough to tell that it was bent, not cut.   :yikes:

Larry

That is just too weird.......it would have been easier and stronger to cut & weld. He must've had 6 torches going at once (one on each side of all 3 channels) :eyecrazy: .

I would think that with a good load on the trailer, one good bump in the road and it would get real ugly, real fast. :yikes:

[ScouterMom]

ah... what state / area did you see that in?

  I don't think I'd want to follow that thing down a highway..... :yikes:

[brainpause]

ah... what state / area did you see that in?

  I don't think I'd want to follow that thing down a highway..... :yikes:

Tennessee, at Seven Points Rec Area, a COE cg. Which gives credence to what AB said:

You need to think like a bubba...that would be twice as much work.

Austin