Any recommendations on hitch setups for pulling with a long camper? I've been told to use a super hitch set up.

It's about 4 feet from my reciever to the back of the step on the camper. Starting to think I might of got too big of a camper. OOOPS.

Thanks
Kris

 

I know that this may sound strange, but on my 16 foot BBQ pit trailer, I had to mod the tongue to be removable for fire access at certain venues I cook at. I went to the local trailer parts house and purchased all of the components required for a reciever compatable hitch. I then welded the 2" solid bar stock to the frame of the trailer with the end for the keeper pin just outside the front of the frame. I then took the 2" reciever tube stock and welded a bulldog hitch on the end opposite of the end with the collett and hole for the pin (thus making it removable). I welded a gusset along the length of the removable tube for strength, welded safety chains on tongue of trailer (tack welded some compatable "D" links on the removable tongue to hold safety chains). I have pulled my rig all over south and central Texas with this set up with no problems. I have been pulled over by the state and local police a couple of times because they had never seen a set-up like this for a trailer tongue b4. Everything has been kosher with the police (because ratings of components are stamped on by factory that manufactured them).

If you don't exceed the weight ratings stamped on the components you should be able to do something similar. BTW, my pit weighs in at 4200# with a tongue weight of 650# when fully loaded with cooking wood and propane burner tanks.

I guess the only thing I did not think of is whether your drop reciever is accessible when your camper is in the bed. But then if it is not, neither is access to your spare tire, so hopefully you do not have a flat while camping........

Good luck,

Gary

 

Reese Titan, it uses a 2 1/2" tube and has a 15K rating. The extension tubes are around 4 feet and you can cut them to length.

FYI, towing my boat with a 24" extension would "flex " the stock hitch .

 

I have been there, I lengthend the tongue of my boat trailer by two feet and I used a extension in the hitch, it worked great for the two to three years we pulled it, on the boat you will have to adjust the boat on the trailer either back or forward to get it track correctly. One more thing our overhead was a 13.5 and I found it easier to put the boat in with a hitch on the front of the truck as the boat hitch was longer anyways and the back of the camper stayed dry. Goodluck,,,RIck

 

I have the class IV Titan with extension which works good, Torquelift also makes a really good hitch but kind of pricey.

 

I went with the tork-lift. It only hurts once. The other option is the reese Titan

 

I have a lance with a two foot extension that I cobbled together for short money,and it has served me well. I used 1/4"TH 2"X2" square tubing welded to one of those 20$ 1 foot long reciever boxes you can buy at a trailer place. Welded a plate out by the mouth of the receiver ext. to which I bolted some 1/4" TH 2"X2" angle iron that extends back under the truck to the ends of the truck's frame rails(actually to those drop plates where you might hook a pull chain/strap). This doesn't help much with excessive tongue weight but beefs up the side to side whip which can be significant. It also adds some redundancy incase a hitch pin or something else fails. This thing looks like sputnik when off the truck. This has worked OK for the last 10K miles of either the 19ft center console boat(200+ tongue wt.) or the Rav 4 that I flat tow(no tongue weight) Going out to 4 feet is another matter, The commercial hitches already discussed are probably engineered for your purposes, but they are pricey and don't seem to offer much of that redundancy I seem to be stuck on. I keep thinking that a three receiver setup with three extensions that tie together out at the drawbar end would have some merit. The stock hitch plus a reciever hanging from each frame rail. I think that is how some of those 'overbuilt lifts' work that people buy to hoist a 1000lb Harley dresser up behind their back bumper on motor homes.
They look beefy.

 

If your truck is a 2wd don't get the Titan. It will hang so low with a 48" extension and your camper, you will not be happy.

 

A buddy is going to build me a "super hitch" type set up. He's going to weld a new receiver under the stock one and then builld a double hitch that extends out to meet the boat. That should be strong enough to tow my boat.

 

So I'm reading from this that the factory towing hitch is not up to the task of an extension? I'm looking at needing about an 18" extension to clear the back of my camper, and then hook up to my Jeep trailer (5500lbs loaded, apx. 300lbs tongue weight). Sounds like I need a Titan or equivalent setup instead???

 

Get the Tork Lift. I have 40K on my truck with a 5000 pound camper and a 4000 pound boat. No problems and I use a 48 inch extension.