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    Quote Originally Posted by hansgoudzwaard View Post
    Having you give us the pictures and material specs is a bonus for me.

    Many thanks ; I really do appreciate this. I will post the process when I start this.
    The only reason I can think of for a guy wanting or needing one of these would be if they are in the business of going after or delivering various trucks and use either a tow dolly in conjunction with it or a tow bar hitch mounted to their drive home vehicle.
    I wouldn't want to use it for towing a trailer that had a heavy tongue weight nor would I want to use it for towing anything much larger than a 3/4 pickup and even then if it were me I would wrap a safety chain around the unit and the nearest cross-member in addition to the required safety chains or cables connected to the towed vehicle.
    Remember this is held in place by friction alone it completely depends on the ability of the bolts biting into the frame.
    The guy that has the one I built sometimes uses shim plates between the bolts and the frames to help prevent damaging the paint This in my opinion reduces the holding strength but with a chain wrapped around a cross member and bound tight there are no worries
    Good luck build strong be safe
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