Hauling your truck

[Longhorn Man]

bean, if you don't drive like an idiot, and the truck has an engine in it and complete suspention and steering system,t hena tow bar is a perfectly fine way to go. That's all I use honestly.
Do a search, you'll get lots of info, both pro and con for tow bars.

[BUDDY]

Originally Posted by Longhorn Man

I've tried renting there wagons a few times, and they always tell me to go away, that it's too heavy. They even tried tellin me my one ton is a 1/2 ton.
"They didn't make SRW one tons trucks back then."
Whatever.
I saved a bunch of money and bought my own tow bar...screw u-haul. most of there stuff is garbage anyways.

Wholeheartedly agree!! U-haul sucks, & they are a bunch of jerks. I have never been in one where the kid behind the desk didn't think that I came in there to have him give me sarcastic comments about what I wanted to do with the "equipment". I've walked out of more than one wanting to stick my boot up that kid's butt.

Originally Posted by Shyguy

About a week ago my son learned a lesson about hauling a pickup on a trailer using a SWB pickup and not loading the other pickup far enough on the trailer. He has his own flatbed trailer.

He thought since his 70 Chey SWB pickup had a fresh 454 with some mods it would do the job ok. His truck is lowered somewhat and he had put air shocks and the optional overload springs on it. His truck had more than enough power but when he tried to get up to highway speeds he almost lost control of his truck and trailer. His trailer was tounge light because he had a tool box on the front of the trailer and had not pulled the hauled pickup all the way forward. Since the trailer was tounge light it started fish-tailing and this with the combination of the SWB truck the whole setup started jumping around. He said it took all he could do to bring the setup under control in two lanes of a 4 lane highway.

Sorry if this a little off subject, but just wanted to share with you all what can happen if a person is not careful.

Danny - Southeast Missouri

Same thing can happen if you are tongue heavy as well!! Almost flipped my Blazer when moving up here. Scared the poop out of me.

Later,
Buddy