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Trailer tongue extension

2450 Views 17 Replies 10 Participants Last post by L.A. Sail, Mar 13, 2015

Bruce3966

Discussion Starter · Mar 12, 2015

I really think I am going to need a extension to my trailer tongue being that I am hauling and launching it with my Jeep Wrangler (short vehicle). I know the marina that I am keeping it at in a slip has pretty deep launch pads but I still think I am going to need one. The ones listed online are outrageous in pricing. This is so simple. It would just be an extension to launch and not while pulling the boat on the roads.

I was just thinking about going to the local welding company and asking them to just take a 2" square pipe about 4 feet long that would just fit in my Jeep receiver and then put a ball at the other end. The tongue weight on the 165 is light enough for me to lift it with one hand (empty anyway) so It's not that heavy.

Thoughts or anybody do this or something else cheap? I have searched online for a day for ideas but haven't found any really good ones.

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DonScribner

· #16 · Mar 13, 2015 (Edited)

I've seen 2X2X3/16 steel tube sliding in brackets under the traveling tongue. It has coupler and a pin that passes thru a hole at the stored position and at the working position. So,
1) stop the boat and set up.
2) chock the wheels, pop the hitch and reposition in the extension coupler.
3) pull the pin and drive the Jeep forward to the working length and replace the pin.
Now you have a wick'd long tongue that works pissah!

Cost is about $200 unless you have a buddy with a metal shop and scraps. Then it's Papa John's and a six of long necks.

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