Rear hitch mount

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Postby Jst83 » Sun Jul 12, 2009 8:23 pm

Steve_Cox wrote:Here's my little hidden hitch. Welded it together then bolted it on with carriage bolts. Box tube with 2 pieces of angle welded to it that bolt to my 2" box tube frame.

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Think I'm following your pick, I said think I can't really see the angle iron, hows it attached to the tube, what direction?
Do you think it would hold pulling a second 500 lbish trailer?
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Postby Steve_Cox » Mon Jul 13, 2009 9:33 pm

Jst83 wrote:
Steve_Cox wrote:Here's my little hidden hitch. Welded it together then bolted it on with carriage bolts. Box tube with 2 pieces of angle welded to it that bolt to my 2" box tube frame.

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Think I'm following your pick, I said think I can't really see the angle iron, hows it attached to the tube, what direction?
Do you think it would hold pulling a second 500 lbish trailer?


The angle goes around two sides of the frame cross members, and it was designed to hold a bike rack, however I personally know it held up to a 200 lb man jumping up and down on a piece of box tubing inserted into it with no problems. So, a 500 lb trailer, loaded properly would have a tongue weight around 70 - 75 lbs? Probable would work, would I do it? No :lol:
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