Who wants a gooseneck? I want dibs on your trailer if someone upgrades.
circle w gooseneck 14000 gvw
http://atlanta.craigslist.org/eat/hvo/5384079623.html
Not a bad trailer. For those that don't know, a gooseneck will pull better, distribute weight better, and a better ride without creating the leverage a bumper pull does.
Cons are you lose your bed space though. @jc79 made the switch from goose.
Don (@BigPrince), what exactly do you mean by "you lose your bed space". Do you mean the bed is unusable?
Jared (@jc79), did your gooseneck mount take up more space than the mount in the picture below?
It doesn't have to. All of that mounts underneath my bed. Just the ball sticks up, but then the ball can be flipped upside down and it's like nothing is there.
I know...but in almost a worst case scenario that hitch in the picture takes up the most bed space for a gooseneck, which leaves almost all of the room in front of it (towards the cab), behind it (towards the tailgate), and most of the left and right sides usable.
Before pulling Doug's trailer to Moab, I thought goosenecks meant no more storage in the bed, but I learned on that trip how much space is still available. We had a lot of crap jammed in the bed (coolers, water, 27 gallon storage bins, floor jack, DEF boxes, drive shafts, and some other stuff). Now, as Jared pointed out, it was not covered, so your stuff has to be waterproof or water resistant. I just want to make sure that other people who have not pulled a gooseneck understand that you can get it arranged so that you don't lose all of your bed space and in fact, you only limit a few things:
- Height of stuff in the bed from the front of the gooseneck hitch to the back of the bed (i.e., in front of the gooseneck hitch you can go tall).
- Dryness of stuff in the bed
- Nothing can be placed where the gooseneck connects to the hitch (two objects cannot occupy the same space stuff)
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