With the platform up front you are going to have the majority of the weight of the ATV on the tongue. Depending on the weight of the ATV, your talking another 200-600 lbs on the tongue over dry weight. My TW goes from 600# to 1550% with my two 800# quads on the front platform. You really need to weight the unit to find out which bars you will need. You can see my rig in my signature.
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NHguy wrote: I didn't know they made any pop ups that are capable of carrying a quad on the front. Does it have a platform in front of the pop up box? Or are you thinking about fabricating something? If you plan to fab something up you want to keep an eye on weights for the tires, axle(s?) and tongue, tongue strength is an issue too as many pop ups are built lighter than that weight you are discussing.
I think I am missing something here though, what's your deal?
Along with the fleetwood mentioned/linked earlier:
The old adage that I grew up with for tongue weight and hitch size used to be 10% of the trailer's dry weight. But now times have changed a bit!!
For example, the dry weight of my trailer is 4800lbs. and we haul about 250lbs. or so of gear. So the weight is somewhere about 5100lbs. or so. And my hitch (which I've had before we bought this one)is rated for 550lbs. So by the old adage rules I'm still in the perfect hitch range. But according to the manufacturer I should using a 600lb. hitch which I'm planning to buy next season when I can afford it. And I think that the reason they recomend the extra size is due to the fact that the majority of storage in the trailer is at the front of it under the bed!!
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Those popups are way cool. We don't see them at the sedate family campgrounds I take my dainty family to. I'd think if I were designing that style popup I'd place the PU axles for proper tongue weight with the quads on the platform, I'd use typical quad weight. But who know what motivates the folks who decide, my guess it is existing tooling and dollars. In my fantasy ideal world the axles are on a screw driven jack system and can be moved to optimize balance. I'm guessing that in the real world one has to make sure the TV can handle the tongue weight and the owner might have 2 sets of spring bars.
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