[drivingpairs] Re: Carriage in Pick-up

I pulled a 2 horse Kingston for years with a 1/2 ton pickup. It had a 
long tongue and I could load/unload my 2 and 4 wheeled carts without 
unhooking. Hauled fine.
On Wednesday, June 11, 2003, at 11:15 AM, Hzlax@xxxxxxx wrote:

> I still have two U-angle iron steel ramps that mount into a full size 
> pick-up
> truck to put a heavy marathon carriage above the wheel wells. I had 
> them made
> professionally many years ago by Walt Ashford to haul my Kuehnle pair
> marathon in my 1991Chevy 350 one ton dually. They attach at the sides 
> to the tie down
> hooks and worked well for a trip from Calif. to the Eastcoast and back.
> After I got my gooseneck trailer I didn't need them anymore, but they 
> are still
> here. If anybody wants them, you can have them for free, but have to 
> come and
> get them.
> At that time I had my Presentation carriage in the nose of my bumper 
> pull
> stock trailer and the two horses behind. The stock trailer had an extra 
> long
> tongue - is that the right word? I mean the V shaped part in front of 
> the trailer
> with which to attach it to the trailer hitch - and can't think of the 
> proper
> word for it right now, anyhow, that part was designed extra long, so 
> that it
> was long enough so that one could jack knife the truck and then the 
> trailer was
> far enough behind to the side so that one could unload the carriage 
> from the
> truck bed without having to unhook the trailer.
> Hardy
>
>
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