Now why would someone use something that is cheap right off the shelf and actually works.

@@zombiehunter374 Pintle hitch is noisy and uncomfortable with those rings banging against eachother.

They make rubber donuts to quiet them for the lady drivers.

I thought about that too.

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.

Ya it’s stgeorge

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.

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’ll try and get one together. Busy in a tundra build right now

Did he ever get back to you

Thanks! I had fun building it🤘🏼

No updates on the channel but ya I still use the crap out of it. If it ever stops raining here ha ha

@@crisisaverted7323 id like an update on wear and tear.

It’ll roll over. It’s pretty light though and I could flip it back iver

Have you rolled it yet? Any ideas on how to prevent it from rolling over on you? I do like your thoughts and application!

@@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.

Still working fine

@@crisisaverted7323 how about now also you live in St. George I’ve seen that truck before

Except those are noisy af, and the ring bouncing around is annoying off road. A little different feel than when it is on the back of deuce and a half.

@@fastfoodvwFL the wife would love to hear a pintle rattling for five hours.

rated for 11,000 lbs. how big are we talking? if its too big, itll get my goose neck hitch and i wont be 4x4ing it.