I would bet he has 3 recievers for the carrier. A friend built one to carry his scooter, it swiveled on the center bar to lower one side to load and unload then a hith pin on each side to lock it for travel.
Overweight or not, that is a lot of stuff behind the coach and toad. Hopefully, the inside of the coach is not as full...
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We have all seen all sorts of carrying add-ons for hitches. If they are commerically sold, they are engineered for the load intended (hopefully). If he just has the standard hitch and receiver, the physics of the load would be a problem. I doubt that is the case, unless he personally rigged it.
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2004 Trailblazer (too heavy but well worth dragging)
For the last couple years we see a 30' or so '90 or so gas Bounder at Quartzsite or Yuma with the same setup except he's hauling a huge quad and towing Saturn. The thing that I can't figure out is there is no visible bracing to support the platform that the quad is sitting on. And yes, it does squat a lot with the load.
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He's using his toad as a truck, which IMHO, is not good.
-Tom
I go to Dog Shows myself, and can tell you we carry a lot of 'stuff'. Then again, my dogs are Danes and everything we need is larger than what Munchkin size dogs need. Nope ... nothing wrong with Munchkin dogs ...
I'm not familiar with Vectra's to know if their compartments come out with the slides or not. But it looks like they prefer to carry their x-pens on the Jeep. They look alot like the size I use which are 8 panels of 24" x 48", and it looks like they have about 3-4 sets on the back of the Jeep. I will tell you that having them there rather than in the storage bays makes it a lot easier to set up. ( we have ours in the storage bay ) Also looks like they are carrying a bike which lots of show people use for running to and from the show rings ...
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Well, aparently people are more comfortable with this setup than I am. Maybe I am being paranoid. I guess it stems from from my own CCC calculation and actual weights. I find that I have to be very diligent about putting heavy things up front, because I'm right at the weight limit of my rear axle, and that's with a lot of inside rear cabinets empty, and nothing hanging from the back. On my rig (which has almost the same gross weight ratings as that one) if I were to hang that much weight off of the back, I would have to store nothing but helium in the cabinets or lower compartments from the kitchen on back so that I could free up enough CCC for that setup.
Someone mentioned that the toad adds NO weight to the back of the rig. While it's true that none of the vehicle weight is on the hitch, the hitch still needs to support something like half the weight of the tow bar. (Yes, yes, I know... that's hardly any weight at all. That's true, specially compared to a cargo trailer tongue weight, bit it's still some weight! )
The bigger issue I see with the tow bar is the long overhang of the cargo platform. That's adding a long lever arm to the tow bar pivot point. As the MH goes over bumps, and the back end moves up and down, that's going to be quite some movement on the end of the tow bar. That could cause some added strain. Furthermore, in a panic stop, when the MH nosedives and the back end goes up, the pivot point of the tow bar is really going to go up, just as the nose of the toad is going down. That could add to the posability of the toad going under the MH. Using the toad as a cargo trailer won't help that situation, either. (But then again, maybe he has to put that cargo on the Jeep, as he has no CCC left to put it in a storage bay in the MH.)
To those that say it's a side radiator, do you know that for a fact, or are you going by the radiator grill behind the rear wheel? The specs I've seen seem to indiacate it's a rear radiator. If you're just going by the grill, that might be confusing, as I have a very similar side grill on my rig, and it's just a small condensor radiator for the dash air, while the main engine radiator is in the back. Are you sure that's not the case here? Again, you can't see it in this picture, but when I saw it in person I thought I saw a rear radiator grill.
Well, I don't know how close he is to his ratings, all I know is that I could never get away with doing that on my rig. Half the reason for posting this was to get other's opinions on if it looked like a valid setup. I guess the majority have no problem with it. Good for him.
brobox wrote: If that one bothers you, wait until you see the guys towing a jeep with a 20 foot bass boat behind that. I have seen that setup more than once.
LOL! I've been telling my DW that I need to hook my toad to the back of the MH, and then my flatbed utility trailer to the back of that, and load the trailer up with the quads. I want to take a picture of the resulting 82 foot long "freight train" and post it as a joke. It would be absolutely illegal here, and I would never drive it that way, but I wonder what kind of reactions I would get if I posted that picture!
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2002 Chevy Avalanche toad
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