Indianawdwfan
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- Aug 21, 2006
This is my dh's contraption he made. Hope it works! Let me know if you all see something that needs attention!!!
Jill
Jill
Wow ..... please give that some serious test runs! If I were a betting man (which I'm not), but I am a mechanical engineer ..... my initial thought is that I would not want to be travelling behind you. The rear wheel support structure does not look nearly beefy enough.
Good luck with that.
For what he paid in labor and material I'd have had one shipped from TX. That guy down there did a lot of trial and error before placing them on the market. I'm not saying your hubby's isn't a good one but if anything goes wrong somebody's gonna get hurt whether it be your family or someone else. I may still get one of these but I'll order mine or steal Lonestar's when he's at the fort.
This is my dh's contraption he made. Hope it works! Let me know if you all see something that needs attention!!!
Jill
I looks great, I might have concerns about the triple tow laws because of the connection to the 5er. I really have no Idea but, my understanding ( which is minimal ) is that the connection to the 5er is part of what would classify it as another trailer or an extention of the 5er. Ther are two connections so there is not a pivot point but, it is not a direct connection ( bolted connection etc. ) It may still be considered its own "unit". There is also the fact that it has a tag. If this is your fiver tag it could be a good thing, if it has it's own tag, and it is tagged as a trailer, you have lost any arguement that it is an extension of the fiver and not a trailer.
It is a great job as I said but, if you are going to tow through a non triple tow state, you might want to check on those things.Sorry if I'm being a downer, but I did say it was a good job. As for the law part, I don't really know but, those are some of the things I myself would look into before hitting the road...
Mike
I dont thank they will have a problem with the law. I towed from Texas to Florida and back with no problem. But my swivel wheel was bolted to my 5er. Florida law says a trailer is a ball mounted device so thats why I bolted mine. I took the tag off my 5er and put it on my swivel wheel.
With the little engineering background I have, one of my concerns would be with the wheel offset from the single fork. Does not look like it would handle 55+mph runs with bumps and pot holes.
Level towing is preferred and this is not level. Undesirable forces acting on the balls and hitches.
Wow ..... please give that some serious test runs! If I were a betting man (which I'm not), but I am a mechanical engineer ..... my initial thought is that I would not want to be travelling behind you. The rear wheel support structure does not look nearly beefy enough.
Good luck with that.
I will second this....
why not pull a utility trailer behind the 5er that is rated for the cart lbs.??.........
It pulls level. our driveway does have that dip in it and I took the picture as he was driving out. It has alot of tie downs on it, plus it is also chained to some things in the floor that you cant really see, in the one pic you can see one of the chains a little by the front right wheel. He says it pulls fine. we also have a rear camera to watch it as we are going down the road. Im sure there are some fine tuning to do but this is his attempt at it. He got the the wheels somewhere different but got the assembly parts to it from the actual swivelwheel company.The metal we already had so the main cost was the wheels/assembly parts. We were told since it was an extension of the 5er, we didnt need a plate, but i think he put it on to not raise questions.