Its magnificent

"HammerheadFistpunch" (hammerheadfistpunch)
09/03/2019 at 13:51 • Filed to: None

DISCUSSION (46)

CalzoneGolem > HammerheadFistpunch
09/03/2019 at 13:55

You need a bike to get from the front to the back of that.

functionoverfashion > HammerheadFistpunch
09/03/2019 at 13:55

yyyeesssssssssss

Discerning > HammerheadFistpunch
09/03/2019 at 13:58

I can dig it. I’d like to see them maneuver your typical state or national park to get to their campsite. Even without the last trailer, that thing looks like a handful. I have a hard enough time manuevering my crew cab with 38 foot trailer.

shop-teacher > HammerheadFistpunch
09/03/2019 at 13:59

A friend of mine was VERY close to putting a deposit down on a new stretched F-350 to tow his 35' camper with his wife and four kids about 8 years ago. He ended up buying an even bigger 5th wheel camper and an International medium duty tow rig instead.

OPPOsaurus WRX > HammerheadFistpunch
09/03/2019 at 13:59

i’d like to see him back that into a parking spot(s)

Just Jeepin' > HammerheadFistpunch
09/03/2019 at 14:00

Please tell me you need a CDL to drive that.

dogisbadob > HammerheadFistpunch
09/03/2019 at 14:00

That’s awesome

jimz > HammerheadFistpunch
09/03/2019 at 14:03

“This ship truck is too damn big. If I walk, the movie will be over!”

Kinja'd!!!

Ssfancyfresh > HammerheadFistpunch
09/03/2019 at 14:04

It is magnificent.

Is it safe?

Is it legal?

Pretty wild setup

MasterMario - Keeper of the V8s > Just Jeepin'
09/03/2019 at 14:04

Hahaha

Michael > MasterMario - Keeper of the V8s
09/03/2019 at 14:09

Not in ‘murica

vicali > HammerheadFistpunch
09/03/2019 at 14:10

Can pass everything but the gas station.. Plus you get one chance to look at stuff ‘cause we’re not backing up..

MasterMario - Keeper of the V8s > HammerheadFistpunch
09/03/2019 at 14:16

This seems like the worst possible way to accomplish this.

Other options include

Option A) Get a toy hauler camper and get rid of the utility trailer

Option B) If you already have a utility trailer just get a Suburban/Expedition instead of an insanely expensive stretch pickup (you could probably get a regular pickup in addition to the Suburban/Expedition and still come out ahead)

Option C) Get this stupid thing for your truck http://coronamap.com/

All of which are going to be significantly easier to manage

ttyymmnn > HammerheadFistpunch
09/03/2019 at 14:23

Do they allow road trains in the US?

This is the most America thing I’ve seen this week.

The Ghost of Oppo > HammerheadFistpunch
09/03/2019 at 14:24

For when you love the great outdoors so much you don’t mind expelling 5 times the average American’s yearly carbon footprint i n a weekend

BJ > HammerheadFistpunch
09/03/2019 at 14:26

Imagine the trailer wag(s) at 7 5 mph... ha ha ha!

No-one’s actually going to drive it that fast, right? Guys???

4kc > ttyymmnn
09/03/2019 at 14:43

Its legal in more than half the states, usually more south you'll see convoys of Hispanics dragging as many old Toyotas and furniture as their 22rs will carry

ttyymmnn > 4kc
09/03/2019 at 14:49

I live in TX, right on IH-35, and we see the three-car trains heading south all the time. Four guys can bring back 11 cars. Many of those cars are all beat to hell, too, so probably bought for a song.

Highlander-Datsuns are Forever > HammerheadFistpunch
09/03/2019 at 14:51

Plot twist, it’s a retired couple and their two shih tzu dogs.

MKULTRA1982(ConCrustyBrick) > HammerheadFistpunch
09/03/2019 at 14:53

What’s scary is knowing some 17 year old is going to buy (what’s left of) that truck in a decade and a half for 4500$.........and they will find a way to lift it higher

MasterMario - Keeper of the V8s > OPPOsaurus WRX
09/03/2019 at 14:56

I imagine it’s like trying to back up a hay wagon but worse

ShrimpHappens, née WJalopy > HammerheadFistpunch
09/03/2019 at 15:04

So just what is the weight distribution like?

It looks like the Polaris is on an aluminum trailer, and if its engine is under the back seat it’s right on top of the axle, but there’s some amount of weight being put on the back (i.e.: wrong) end of the camper.

I reckon the camper weighs so much more than the Polaris/trailer that it might not be that bad. And the absurd length of the tow vehicle helps stability too.

BigBlock440 > MasterMario - Keeper of the V8s
09/03/2019 at 15:04

Worse, definitely worse. That has two articulation point, a wagon’s only got one and is ease enough if you just think of the driving the wagon, not the thing it’s hooked to.

LastFirstMI is my name > Just Jeepin'
09/03/2019 at 15:19

Experience as a train engineer might be more helpful

Urambo Tauro > HammerheadFistpunch
09/03/2019 at 15:33

Sir Topham Hatt approves!

MasterMario - Keeper of the V8s > BigBlock440
09/03/2019 at 15:41

A wagon has two...from the front bogie arm to the tractor and then the front bogie to the wagon. Backing them up is fun stuff.

HammerheadFistpunch > Michael
09/03/2019 at 16:05

funny enough it has A lberta plates.

HammerheadFistpunch > OPPOsaurus WRX
09/03/2019 at 16:05

I tried to picture it. I cried and stopped.

HammerheadFistpunch > jimz
09/03/2019 at 16:06

it genuinely took a while before I could back up to get it all into frame.

HammerheadFistpunch > shop-teacher
09/03/2019 at 16:06

thats one s ol ution I suppose.

HammerheadFistpunch > Discerning
09/03/2019 at 16:07

They had a state parks pass hanging from the rearview.

HammerheadFistpunch > MasterMario - Keeper of the V8s
09/03/2019 at 16:07

I was thinking toy hauler too, but I would bet that single rear wheel and the stretch puts a limit on their tongue weight which this solves.

HammerheadFistpunch > ShrimpHappens, née WJalopy
09/03/2019 at 16:08

I looked. No weight carrying bars on the camper hitch. My guess is that they are counting on the 2nd trailer to put enough lift on the 1st trailer to put it in the range where it wouldn’t need one. Scary.

HammerheadFistpunch > vicali
09/03/2019 at 16:08

single digits for sure, even with diesel.

HammerheadFistpunch > ttyymmnn
09/03/2019 at 16:09

It’ s legal in Utah...but...its got Alberta Pl ates.

HammerheadFistpunch > Ssfancyfresh
09/03/2019 at 16:09

Legal, at least in my state, though its Canadian so I can’ t say

Discerning > HammerheadFistpunch
09/03/2019 at 16:20

State parks have been my favorite camping spots by far. Spacious, clean, well enforced rules, and inexpensive.

It’s legitimately like having a home away from home with a nice camper.

I hear the actual camping is nice enough too At state parks. LOL

O nly downside is that a lot of the turns are super tight. I’ve seen plenty of campers scrape trees and drag axles from turning too tight trying to manuever the turns.

ttyymmnn > HammerheadFistpunch
09/03/2019 at 16:24

Somebody check his green card.

MasterMario - Keeper of the V8s > HammerheadFistpunch
09/03/2019 at 16:27

I would think the physics of towing and that stretch would favor a higher tongue weight since the bed wasn’t stretched but the wheelbase did.

I’ve towed quite a bit but anytime I see a double trailer set up including a camper I cringe. It has to be such a PITA to maneuver anywhere. This guy must be as long as a semi truck and trailer.

The truck is probably around 25' long, the camper 30'+, and the utility trailer another 12' making this thing probably close to 70' long.

MasterMario - Keeper of the V8s > shop-teacher
09/03/2019 at 16:29

I assume the medium duty truck was probably cheaper too (those stretch conversion are $$$$$$)

M.T. Blake > HammerheadFistpunch
09/03/2019 at 16:33

The modern Beverly Hillbillies!

MasterMario - Keeper of the V8s > HammerheadFistpunch
09/03/2019 at 16:57

Oooo...nice twist

shop-teacher > MasterMario - Keeper of the V8s
09/03/2019 at 16:57

I believe it was cheaper actually.

shop-teacher > HammerheadFistpunch
09/03/2019 at 16:59

They use it a lot. He is also a teacher, and they spend all summer plus spring break on the road as a family. How he affords it?

SilentButNotReallyDeadly...killed by G/O Media > HammerheadFistpunch
09/03/2019 at 18:55

You’ve misused ‘magnificent’ as a verb. I’d have used it as an adjective...as in ‘magnificent stupidity’.

There are so many better ways to achieve the same outcome.

Grindintosecond > HammerheadFistpunch
09/03/2019 at 21:33

Why do I feel like a 40' bus RV with an ass-garage would have been a better solution?