How much weight can it tow?

[pumpkin]

Originally Posted by dubds10

Never heard of any laws against welding a hitch to a frame. I see it quite often up here actually. My buddy's a master fabricator when it comes to metal work/welding etc, so he'll be welding everything up. The hitch setup with be a custom fab setup to get around the rear suspension/gas tank/bumper mounts. I've never seen a weld fail unless the welder didn't know what they were doing of course. I've seen surrounding metal break before a weld has.

It is not legal to weld a hitch to the frame in BC. I am a motor vehicle inspector, and that would fail.

[dubds10]

Originally Posted by pumpkin

It is not legal to weld a hitch to the frame in BC. I am a motor vehicle inspector, and that would fail.

Well that's good to know. I've seen so many hitches welded on to frames up here I figured it'd be fine. I ended up switches hitches with a buddy of mine anyways. His was a perfect fit for my blazer.

I was going to use a tilt deck trailer, which we use for the bobcat. It's 4500lbs dry weight. Carries 16,000lbs roughly. I didn't want to use it though due to the weight, so I spent all day Saturday digging my buddy's 18ft flat deck out of his mud pit of a yard. It's around 2000-2500lbs dry weight.

Went down yesterday afternoon with the top off..very cold drive. Loaded up the beast of a SUV and made the drive back to Bellingham where Bob (MUDMIZER) was kind enough to let me sleep over till today when I could cross the boarder. Once again, the bed was greatly appreciated Bob, hope to see your vehicles in the day light sometime Thanks for the great American hospitality.

The blazer pulled the trailer and 'burb great actually. For pulling around 7000lbs the Blazer didn't miss a beat. I honestly was surprised. The rearend only dropped maybe 2-3" overall. And I thought about a dolly or flat towing but I'm pretty sure that's not legal to do here in BC. Maybe in the states you can get away with it, but that's a long drive to flat tow. Unfortunately I wasn't able to get my trailer brakes hooked up in time or the weight distribution setup on. So it was all Blazer and driver doing the work...

Here's a pic of it I just took. Just got home and unloaded it in the driveway. Poor old 'burb will probably get chopped up and put on a newer turbo diesel chassis I need a good towing vehicle lol

Now I'm off to go pick up the '68 4x4 and bring it back today too...hopefully. It'll be a much lighter load though.