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5th wheel Vs. Gooseneck
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5th wheel Vs. Gooseneck
What are the advantages and disadvantage of haveing a 5th wheel instead of a goose neck. i got a gooseneck and everyone is telling me to switch it over to 5th wheel, anyone know why?
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5th wheel Vs. Gooseneck
The only advantages that I know of is that you don't have to jack the trailer up as high to unhook a 5th wheel; just enough to take the weight off the hitch. With a goose neck, you have to jack a couple extra inches to clear the top of the ball. 5th wheels also don't require safety chains (at least in my state). The cool thing about a gooseneck is that the hitch ball folds away in about two seconds to leave the bed totally free for what ever.
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5th wheel Vs. Gooseneck
I use a gooseneck on my trailer, I've never had a problem. I been told to switch over too. (All by people who have fifth wheel). I know a lot of people who haul with gooseneck. I haul christmas trees with mine, I don't know what the weight loaded would be but I have tandem minihome axels under it with 80psi in each tire and have loaded it till I thought the tires would blow. There is also a friend who pulls a 31 foot gooseneck and regular loads it with all his 400hp truck will pull. So have faith the gooseneck is strong and in my opinion alot more convinient
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5th wheel Vs. Gooseneck
I always thought gooseneck and 5th wheel trailers where the same thing. If your thinking about bumper pull and 5th wheel then there is quite an avantage in 5th wheel. They distrubute the weight on your truck better, Bumper pull put all the weight on the back wheels.
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5th wheel Vs. Gooseneck
>I always thought gooseneck and 5th wheel trailers where the
>same thing. If your thinking about bumper pull and 5th
>wheel then there is quite an avantage in 5th wheel. They
>distrubute the weight on your truck better, Bumper pull put
>all the weight on the back wheels.
A gooseneck is the big ball on a steel plate in the bed of the truck. A fifth wheel is a hitch like the big tractor-trailers use,which is also used on some camping trailers.
>same thing. If your thinking about bumper pull and 5th
>wheel then there is quite an avantage in 5th wheel. They
>distrubute the weight on your truck better, Bumper pull put
>all the weight on the back wheels.
A gooseneck is the big ball on a steel plate in the bed of the truck. A fifth wheel is a hitch like the big tractor-trailers use,which is also used on some camping trailers.
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5th wheel Vs. Gooseneck
Seems to me that the side to side stresses involved in sharp cornering or sudden manuevers would be better distributed by the fifth wheel mounting than with the gooseneck.
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5th wheel Vs. Gooseneck
look at stock trailers there is a reason they use gooseneck is because cowboys pull and back trailers in places they shouldn't be
and a fifth wheel if you disconect on unlevel surface with a fithweel it is a pain to reconnect i know i have both in my pickup and a fifthwheel can rob you of tractoin if the trailer is not level any twisting the trailer dose it is going to do the same to your truck
personaly i have both and perfer gooseneck i would like to converte
35 foot teton to gooseneck
mike l
and a fifth wheel if you disconect on unlevel surface with a fithweel it is a pain to reconnect i know i have both in my pickup and a fifthwheel can rob you of tractoin if the trailer is not level any twisting the trailer dose it is going to do the same to your truck
personaly i have both and perfer gooseneck i would like to converte
35 foot teton to gooseneck
mike l
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5th wheel Vs. Gooseneck
>look at stock trailers there is a reason they use gooseneck
>is because cowboys pull and back trailers in places they
>shouldn't be
>and a fifth wheel if you disconect on unlevel surface with a
>fithweel it is a pain to reconnect i know i have both in my
>pickup and a fifthwheel can rob you of tractoin if the
>trailer is not level any twisting the trailer dose it is
>going to do the same to your truck
>personaly i have both and perfer gooseneck i would like to
>converte
>35 foot teton to gooseneck
>mike l
>
a company Call Colbert Engineering makes a 5th to goose adapter they are even in the new camper wourld catalog
>is because cowboys pull and back trailers in places they
>shouldn't be
>and a fifth wheel if you disconect on unlevel surface with a
>fithweel it is a pain to reconnect i know i have both in my
>pickup and a fifthwheel can rob you of tractoin if the
>trailer is not level any twisting the trailer dose it is
>going to do the same to your truck
>personaly i have both and perfer gooseneck i would like to
>converte
>35 foot teton to gooseneck
>mike l
>
a company Call Colbert Engineering makes a 5th to goose adapter they are even in the new camper wourld catalog
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