Those to things are dumb i.m.h.o. That little tire will never hack it. Mr.Truck is kinda goofy I've always thought.

 

That's an AWESOME invention. Now you can pull a 32 foot fiver safely behind your Explorer.

 

If I ever come across one of those truckin down the interstate, I'll use the shoulder to give myself more room to get around that!! That's SCARY

 

Don't look to safe to me. I have never had trouble pulling anything but stopping that's a whole different story. I could imagine a half ton pick up with 35' camper hooked to it. I would not want stop in front of him. Just my 2 cents though

 

The sad thing about these gizmo's

We all spend a small bundle of coin on our rigs to tow safely....diesel power, clutches, transmissions, tires, air bags, hitches, brake contollers, power enhancements, mirrors, brakes on all axles, lights, bigger trucks for bigger trailers, etc, etc, etc. We make it as safe as we can for everyone around us on the highway when we are coming down the road.

Then the marketers and advertisers get hold of these "towing" safety devices and get them out to the public. We all know they are not a suitable device to use but the general public beleives what the advertisers say.

So now, Edith and Eddy from Notsosmart, Nowhere decide that they want to go on holidays with the old mini van. Low and behold, now they can tow that 30' travel trailer because the RV saleman said "sure your van can tow it, all you need is one of these contraptions"

So there they go on bald tires, massively overwieght and some poor innocent sole gets smoked when this titanic won't stop.

WE PAY FOR IT!!!!!!

This is why I have no problems reporting a suspect looking tow rig no matter what he is dragging. These things are not safe!!!!

Not sure if I made any sense here but had to vent a little. We have to deal with enough DOT crap and this junk keeps sneaking in the back door.

I'll go stand in the corner now and breathe some oxygen.

 

I agree with most everybodies comments about trying to pull to much trailer with to little truck.

But I am inclined to think that that Hitch-Buddy might be a good idea in certain applications.

For example, you have a guy who owns a 2005 Dodge Cummins 2500 with a 9000 GVWR and his truck weighs 7500lbs. That gives him 1500lbs of "legal" capacity to carry passengers, hitch pin weight on his fiver, fuel, luggage, and whatever else in his truck. He is probably going to be technically overweight. Not on the GCWR....but on the GVWR.

The GCWR on the same truck is going to be 21,000 with a 3.73 gear or 23,000 with a 4.10 gear.

If he wants to pull his 10,000lb fiver........and lets say 1/5 of the weight on the trailer is the pin weight.....that is 2000lbs. (on the truck) His truck is technically and legally overweight. I am not saying he can't pull it safely...im just saying.....that technically and legally...according to his GVWR of 9000lbs he is going to be overweight.

With something like that Hitch Buddy....he could pull it from his factory receiver tube and not violate his GCWR..........and wouldn't be putting the pin hitch weight of the 5ver on his truck, therefore would not be violating the GVWR.


Another example............is the guy who owns a FERD Excursion. He wants a fiver....but doesn't want to sell his Excursion and get a pickup. The Hitch-Buddy would work in his situation too.


Just food for thought.

I certainly agree that there are going to be idiots out there who will try to pull a ridiculous weight with a half ton whatever and be unsafe and cause problems.

 

'Recon that little bitty wheel/tire would make a chirping sound, and maybe
throw off a little smoke when you hit a bump and it lands again? Kinda like
an airplane.

 

Reminds me of the Lucille Ball movie,, The Long Trailer.. pulling a big Travel trailer with a convertable... had something like that on the hitch..

 

they use them to deliver trailers in tandem. but usually only for commercial applications. the commercial ones are usually two axle job with four tires

blow one of those hitch buddy tires out with your fiver behind you. no thanks

ill stick to my 16k slider in the bed thanks