Posted by Ed3 on April 18, 2014 at 05:26:17 from (70.208.68.179):
In Reply to: Is this safe?? posted by John in La on April 18, 2014 at 04:24:55:
I'd be uncomfortable doing 50 down a highway with this
Would build some kind of support under the wood so you have a properly sized metal to metal connection from the hitch to the truck frame. I would probably weld the entire length of the hitch to tube connection and wouldn't use soft bolts. Can't comment on the tube steel under the hitch as I can't see what the thickness is
Just afraid that one hard stop, accident or swaying would break the 2 x something wood deck.
I'm not an engineer and would probably over build just to be safe
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