I have a truck and trailer that would go anywhere except the 2" ball hitch was limiting the travel. I could have bought one but I had a bunch of scrap laying around and its always more fun to build your own stuff.
Wish I had the fab tools and skills to make one of these my self, way cheaper than buying one, but by the time I buy all the tools, I could just buy one... good work
I was about to comment on the same. Welding on hardened materials will change the material profile. It is likely a great degree of brittleness was imparted due to the extreme heating. Off road I wouldn't be to0 worried as the worst case scenario is you lose your trailer, however I would not tow on the road with it. I doubt the maker uses it for on road towing (even though demoed that way in the video) and likely swaps it out when offroad to this hitch. Offroad though, it looks great and he did a good job creating it for cheap! I do agree about the pintle hitch though, already does all this and is ridiculously strong.
@@chadmjohn it shouldn't make it brittle, it would make it soft. Heating makes it soft, quenching heated material makes it brittle, reheating slowly and evenly (tempering) can dial it in where you want it. So I think in terms of safety it's probably not going to snap off, but since it is soft it could potentially get deformed and seized. It could be he did in fact spray it with water after welding in which case it would stay hard. Bolts tend to be on the brittle end of things anyway exactly to avoid the threads from deforming, but it means they tend to snap over bend.
The backdrop looks like St George or Southern Utah. I'm in Cedar City and I am also looking for a swivel hitch for my camping trailer and my ATV trailer.
My motorcycle trailer incorporated a U-Joint from a drive shaft for the up/down and left/right flex. The part attached to the bike was rigid. Mine was a single wheel trailer so I wanted the trailer to tip with the bike.
@@marceld6061 I see yeah. Id like to have a two wheel trailer for relatively short trips like to the shop and back or if I need to move a small amount of goodies from one place to the other, however, the hitch for my desired setup would honestly only need to be able to spin around like in a 360 degree fashion to accommodate for the leaning of the bike.
4x6 JJ looks awesome for go anywhere off road in your video. Do you think the 6x8 which I think you had could do similar off roading assuming trail is not to narrow? or do you think it will get bogged with approach and decent angles? Contemplating the 6x8 since we are a family of 4 and don't think the 4x6 will be big enough. Have 2 and 5 year olds along with wife.
This guy never answers his YT posts. I am in the same boat as you. I have same situation family wide plus a big dog. The 6x8s just seem a little wide to me. Plus the extra room it would take in the garage. I think my plan is to put bunks for the kids. Dog on the floor. Let me know if you ended up getting one. There isn’t a lot of vids on the 4x6
I hope this doesn’t come off mean it’s more curious. With the extreme articulation and flexibility of it, what happens if it starts tipping too far let’s say when you are coming off an steep angle either to your driver or passenger side, will it max out or could it keep tipping and potentially roll over??
@@straightarrow5518 don’t take it on stuff too steep. Anything you do to prevent it from rolling over, increases the risk of it pulling over your rig. Better to let it roll and not take it you with.
😅😅😅😅 Really? How about you load up the trailer with around 750kg take it on some sh!t roads and see how long it lasts? The whole thing is relying on 1 x 1inch bolt. 😅
