Redneck Trailer Fuel Saving idea

DallanC · Site Admin Joined: Jan 18, 2005 Posts: 3572 Location: Utah

I wouldnt recommend this ... Very Happy

-DallanC

Bushmaster · Posted: Thu Jul 10, 2008 1:01 pm Post subject: Re: Camping Fuel Saving idea

What?? You already did?

DallanC · Site Admin Joined: Jan 18, 2005 Posts: 3572 Location: Utah

Heh not me, but whoever it was is unforunately from my state.

-DallanC

Duce · Member Joined: Mar 01, 2008 Posts: 124 Location: Kentucky

Darn they got pictures of a Kentucky boy on vacation!

OntheLasGallinas

It might work if you didn't have to go over 10 mph and didn't have to stop fast. Oh, yes, and, if your point of destination wasn't over a mile or two.

Cary

Wicky

The problem is crearly the hooks on the tailgate chains, they should have safety clips. Very Happy

Wicky

And my spelling "crearly" - too much Bourbon at work!!

TRBLSHTR

I have a buddy that does these same kindof thing with a Bronco2.I keep telling him that he ain't "right minded"-he comes back with"I never said that I was". wtf

PaulS

All he has to do to make it right is move a little weight behind the duals on that there trailer.
"If a woman can't find a man handsome, she should at least find him handy" quote from the Red Green show. The only thing missing is the duct tape (known in some places as duck or hamster tape)

Bushmaster

If he gets too much weight behind the duels the trailer will wig-wag...

PaulS

And that is worse than what he has now..........???
It makes me laugh to think that someone could be .....
could do something like that and believe it would work.

I am no engineer but I would have built a platform on the roof to hold that trailer BETWEEN the axles of that chevy. At least that way when it broke I could walk away clean.

Bushmaster

No arguement here...Just saying.

Vince

OH MY GOD !! wtf

I don't believe that setup. He had to have done it for a bet...surely. No man in his right mind would set up a towing hitch for a gooseneck on the tailgate of a 4WD.

That is a Ford Bronco isn't it? The earlier model Bronco doesn't have a real good name here in Oz. I know of one that literally broke in half on one of our outback roads in the Far North.

I gotta send a copy of these pics to a mate...he works in an area where they do legislation for tow hitches, goosenecks and fifth wheelers.

Cheers, Vince

d_hoffman

No Vince, that's a Chevy S10 Blazer. Maybe he could try some overload springs. I think I would've tried using a 2 wheel car-hauler setup with the 5th wheel mount rigged up on it before trying something like that.

Bushmaster

Or maybe a HD pickup rigged for fith wheel...