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Old 02-04-2018, 08:39 AM
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Looks like a fun project. I move a utility trailer around my property with cubs. They're much easier to get into small spaces than my GMC.

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Old 02-04-2018, 09:58 AM
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Looking forward to seeing your hitch.

As a youngster,I remember pulling our '73 wagon home,3 -4 miles. 4916lbs curb wt. I just looked it up.
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Old 02-04-2018, 10:24 AM
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Yeah.... I've dragged around 1 ton quad cab 4x4 trucks with mine.... to get them in the shop because they were dead. But I used a chain and had someone in the cab working the brakes and steering. I'm not saying a Cub can't pull a trailer. But there is a whole difference between being able to pull something, and the ability to steer and stop it.

I know I'm making a bigger deal out of this than necessary..... But I just cannot wrap my mind around you guys who say you need the little GT to maneuver a trailer in and out of places. Where the heck do you guys keep you're trailers that you can't use a truck to move them? How often do you move a boat around in you're yard or barn that you need to have a hitch on a GT to do it? Are you guys storing your trailers in your fenced in back yards behind a storage shed around the corner with trees around it?? What do you do when you need the trailer? What if the yard is wet? I don't understand..... I have a trailer out in my yard because I seldom use it and it isn't licensed. But I can still get to it with a pickup.... I keep other trailers in lean-to's and sheds. One lean-to we put trailers in is packed bumper to bumper and only about enough room between the trailers to walk and not room between the trailer and the shed wall to walk. It's TIGHT.... but we put them in there with a pickup.

Now, I totally understand using a tractor with a hitch on the 3pt to move trailers around. That makes sense. Sit on the seat, back up, lift the hitch into the ball, pick up the whole front end and move it. No getting off to run the jack up and down. Just pick it up, move it, set it down and drive away. But using a GT.... you still have to jack it up and down, get on and off.... Plus there is the whole barley able to move it aspect....

I pull trailers too often to want them tucked away so deep that I need a GT to get them in and out I guess. I have never once looked at any of my cubs and said, "You know what would be great? To have a big tall hitch on that so I can move a trailer." To each their own. I'll stop posting. Just had to say that I guess.
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Old 02-04-2018, 01:17 PM
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Hey Jmech, your opinions matter, here are some pictures of hitch designed by me.
The angled angle pieces will be notched to place square tube for ball, have a look.
I put this together to show how it bolts up.
It mounts under fender to frame between rear tire and front edge of tire, then bolts at axle housing, rear if frame, and then ties together at forward angle piece for great strength.
More pictures after final fitment and square tube added,
Glad you had me do this, I think it looks neat.
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Old 02-04-2018, 01:21 PM
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Here's what I want to pull, my Starcraft Bluewater 180 with Mercury 115, my true money pit, I may live at top of the big Lake Okeechobee, but I fish the Atlantic.
I'm one hour away from coast, freshwater fishing does nothing for me. Thanks.
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Old 02-04-2018, 07:23 PM
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That boat and trailer weighs 3500lbs??
Really??

My 3500lb boat is on a dual axle trailer with the fat donut tires so it rolls over soft ground rather easy.
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Old 02-04-2018, 07:48 PM
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That boat and trailer weighs 3500lbs??
Really??

My 3500lb boat is on a dual axle trailer with the fat donut tires so it rolls over soft ground rather easy.
Yes, 27-2800lbs in water ready to cruise, axle weight at scale is 3100, 3-350 tongue weight so I'm at max capacity for trailer.
Hull is big and fat deep V so it rides well and not fast.
It's more of a sandbar cruiser than hardcore offshore machine, other people's boats are for fishing.
Hoping to repower with a new Mercury fourstroke one day.
A little more welding and hitch should be ready to mount.
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Old 02-04-2018, 08:10 PM
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Let me make sure I got this.....

Boat weighs 27-2800#. 75% of the boat is in front of the axle. Now, I don't know a dang thing about boats so bear with me..... but assuming that outboard weighs a huge 300# (I'm assuming that's a ridiculous number), take 75% of the remaining weight, which leaves you with 1800#. Go back and subtract the remaining 25% plus the weight of the motor. (Like balancing a teeter totter.) That leaves you with 900# on the tongue, and I didn't even figure the trailer into it..... I'm really skeptical of your numbers too. (I used 2700 for the boat's weight.)

Again.... I don't know anything about boats.....
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Old 02-04-2018, 08:53 PM
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No, It's balanced well, at scale, truck unhooked It's 3400lbs. 300 tongue weight, 3100 axle.
Balance is good. Trailer is 650lbs.
Both weighed together then separate at different times.
How did you like my hitch design, total redneck but I think it will be strong, bolts and ties together frame and rear end.
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Old 02-04-2018, 08:56 PM
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No, It's balanced well, at scale, truck unhooked It's 3400lbs. 300 tongue weight, 3100 axle.
Balance is good. Trailer is 650lbs.
Both weighed together then separate at different times.
How did you like my hitch design, total redneck but I think it will be strong, bolts and ties together frame and rear end.
Thanks,
Kevin

If it's balanced well, wouldn't that mean that the tongue weight would be higher if 75% of the boat in in front of the axle?

Whatever.... doesn't matter.


You don't want to know what I think of your hitch. You used a good adjective to describe it.....
I still don't even understand how it mounts. To the frame is about the only part I understand.
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