The brake made it possible (even if it was stupid).  I reinforced the loops
and the tongue weight was considerable more than 150# to get the thing to
stop swaying.  In fact, I had to stop at a Lowe's and buy a truck cargo box
and strap it to the trailer tongue just to get some weight on the nose of
it.  After that, it tracked pretty well.

As a note to anyone silly enough to duplicate my stunt. I got really good at
starting out in granny to get the land barge moving so that I didn't toast
the clutch.

Mark

----- Original Message -----
From: "Kim Brennan" <kimbrennan@mac.com>
To: "boroko" <marokus@VOYAGER.NET>
Cc: <vanagon@GERRY.VANAGON.COM>
Sent: Tuesday, July 15, 2003 10:13 PM
Subject: Re: da'lan hitch

> Oh, I believe you. And the fact that you had a brake on the trailer is
> certainly a big factor in your sucessful (I presume) move.
>
> I should have specified that towing capacity is often covered as
> "unbraked" towing capacity. In other words, without auxillary brakes in
> the trailer. There is also the tongue weight load (I think it is
> something like 150 pounds, but that's strictly from memory and may not
> be correct.)
>
>
>
> On Tuesday, July 15, 2003, at 09:44 PM, boroko wrote:
>
> > I know that this sounds like BS, but I assure you that it is true.
>
>