My cousin stumbled across a new-never used Fastmaster Swivelwheel platform (5' long x 8' wide) and all the hardware for a reasonable price a while back and originally thought it might make an interesting trailer, but then realized that wasn't going to work very well so I'm looking at it for my 3740 Bunkhouse.
Does anyone have firsthand knowledge of them?
Really like the idea of being able to put something like a small side by side or the outdoor equipment behind the 5th wheel when I travel, but the engineering side of my brain is coming up with questions on frame stress to the 5th wheel, geometry when transitioning in/out of some driveway approaches, and then of course at 40 ft long it can already be challenging getting a spot, add another 5' and how much worse will it be?
GVWR is listed at 1690 lbs with an advertised payload of 1200 lbs - don't think I'd want more than 1000 lbs and the items I have in mind for it would easily stay under that.
From their website:
Note: Specs for fifth wheels must be 30 ft or more with a dry weight of 10,000 lbs or more anything under that could cause unintended effects to the fifth-wheel. Loading of the platform has a effect on the handling of the system. The load should be centered as much as possible. This distributes the weights evenly between the fifth wheel and Swivelwheel tire.
Customers are responsible for the Receiver package install, Fast Master Products Inc. provides the two connection points for the DW58 Swivelwheel to help with the install which have a spread of 30" center to center. We recommend that the receiver package should be flush with the back of the Fifth wheel but no more than 4" past the back.
Thank you in advance for your input!
Chris
Does anyone have firsthand knowledge of them?
Really like the idea of being able to put something like a small side by side or the outdoor equipment behind the 5th wheel when I travel, but the engineering side of my brain is coming up with questions on frame stress to the 5th wheel, geometry when transitioning in/out of some driveway approaches, and then of course at 40 ft long it can already be challenging getting a spot, add another 5' and how much worse will it be?
GVWR is listed at 1690 lbs with an advertised payload of 1200 lbs - don't think I'd want more than 1000 lbs and the items I have in mind for it would easily stay under that.
From their website:
Note: Specs for fifth wheels must be 30 ft or more with a dry weight of 10,000 lbs or more anything under that could cause unintended effects to the fifth-wheel. Loading of the platform has a effect on the handling of the system. The load should be centered as much as possible. This distributes the weights evenly between the fifth wheel and Swivelwheel tire.
Customers are responsible for the Receiver package install, Fast Master Products Inc. provides the two connection points for the DW58 Swivelwheel to help with the install which have a spread of 30" center to center. We recommend that the receiver package should be flush with the back of the Fifth wheel but no more than 4" past the back.
Thank you in advance for your input!
Chris
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