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Message: <blockquote data-quote="SLE" data-source="post: 300537" data-attributes="member: 3889">There's some serious fallacies with this video. First is the location of the trailer tires being in the middle of the trailer versus further back as you see on any bumper pull or fifth wheel camper. The second issue is the fact the the tow vehicle is not actually pulling on the trailer and is attached via a wire/cable with a conveyor below. The dynamics of that and the tow vehicle actually "pulling" the trailer are vastly different.I did the bumper pull/boat thing for several years. Have enough tow vehicle, a good weight distribution hitch, make sure the trailers tow level, brakes on both the boat and the camper, and a camper that's 50%ish heavier than the boat and it'll tow fine. I did this with 2 different bumper pull campers and 2 different boats without issue. When I upgraded boats to a boat that weighed 5k lbs on the trailer and the camper was only 7k lbs, things were definitely more squirrely and you had to pay more attention but was still doable if you kept your speed in check. I was nearly 85 ft long from tip to tail which is 10ft over the legal limit. I did go to a fifth-wheel after that, and then to bigger boats, and bigger fither's, and quit doing the double tow all together. When you start getting into 20/21 ft boats behind 35+ ft fifth-wheels, the fifth-wheel frames are marginal to begin without adding the additional stress of 600+ lbs of tongue weight and 5k-7k lbs pushing the rear frame of the fifther is asking for some issues IMHO. As far as I'm aware, there are no fifth-wheel manufactures or subsequent frame manufactures that will warranty issues that result from adding a hitch and double towing. Heck most will void warranty with even the addition of a Gooseneck adapter (which I've also done without issue). Once my campers got larger and more expensive, i felt the risk outweighed the benefit. To each there own though, it completely doable. I have an quittance that pulls a 38ft fith-wheel and a 25 ft pontoon in tandem. talk about a train!</blockquote>

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