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01-18-2019, 09:59 AM
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#121
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Senior Member
Join Date: Jan 2019
Location: Mountain Falls, VA
Posts: 222
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Storage of sway control bars
I just put them in the bed of my truck.
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01-19-2019, 10:51 PM
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#122
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Junior Member
Join Date: Oct 2018
Posts: 26
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Copy cat
After see what someone else did, I made a box that holds all of my WDH pieces for easy access when I do need them. No more grease either.
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01-19-2019, 11:02 PM
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#123
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I'm Lost
Join Date: Mar 2014
Location: Algonquin Provincial Park, Ontario
Posts: 1,342
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Quote:
Originally Posted by Bagger
After see what someone else did, I made a box that holds all of my WDH pieces for easy access when I do need them. No more grease either.
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Very nice job, well done.
Geoff
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02-18-2019, 05:17 PM
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#124
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Senior Member
Join Date: Jun 2015
Location: Minnesota
Posts: 263
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wdh bars
I have a set up like rockfordroo. Took a piece of 3"? PVC, painted it black and strapped it on the tongue right in front of the trailer. Since our rock guard on the tt is black most people don't even see it there. The bars slide in (one on each side), it's almost the same height as the bars are when set up so very little lifting, just swing around and slide bar into PVC, put on end cap. Out of sight, out of the weather, not in the dirt or taking up space in my pass thru. they always go there so we know exactly where they are. easy peasy.
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02-18-2019, 06:38 PM
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#125
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Take it easy,but take it
Join Date: Dec 2016
Posts: 87
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Quote:
Originally Posted by cincia
I have a set up like rockfordroo. Took a piece of 3"? PVC, painted it black and strapped it on the tongue right in front of the trailer. Since our rock guard on the tt is black most people don't even see it there. The bars slide in (one on each side), it's almost the same height as the bars are when set up so very little lifting, just swing around and slide bar into PVC, put on end cap. Out of sight, out of the weather, not in the dirt or taking up space in my pass thru. they always go there so we know exactly where they are. easy peasy.
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Thanks--for now i will use newspaper bags--until spring comes that will have to do !!
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02-18-2019, 06:53 PM
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#126
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Member
Join Date: Aug 2013
Location: New Holland, Pennsylvania
Posts: 86
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I bought a 36" tray to catch water from a long flower box. My bars fit nicely in it and keeps the grease off of items in the storage compartment.
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02-18-2019, 11:30 PM
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#127
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Retired Old Fart
Join Date: Nov 2018
Location: McDonough, GA
Posts: 971
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I like this idea. I'm going to make one for my front compartment which does not have a factory slide tray. Krushad made a two level slideout tray. Bottom is the perfect place for the bars etc...
http://www.forestriverforums.com/for...ay-177944.html
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03-30-2019, 06:38 AM
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#128
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Senior Member
Join Date: Jun 2014
Posts: 530
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@profchuck
I saw your setup in Trailerlife magazine and remembered your post. I'm curious, and couldn't figure it out from your pictures. What did you do to connect the open ends of the u bolts so they couldn't be removed from the frame? Just a piece of flat metal bolted over them? Or is the pipe strap long enough to connect to both sides?
Thanks.
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03-30-2019, 04:59 PM
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#129
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Senior Member
Join Date: Nov 2012
Location: Michigan
Posts: 597
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Quote:
Originally Posted by IchLiebeBier
@profchuck
I saw your setup in Trailerlife magazine and remembered your post. I'm curious, and couldn't figure it out from your pictures. What did you do to connect the open ends of the u bolts so they couldn't be removed from the frame? Just a piece of flat metal bolted over them? Or is the pipe strap long enough to connect to both sides?
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What I used is the flat piece of metal that comes with the U-bolt. I put that on first and then on the outside side of the U-bolt I added a washer and the pipe strap and another lock washer and the nut. The picture is a shot head-on to the trailer frame so you can see the metal piece and the strap. I tightened the bolts so the metal bent just a bit so the pipe straps wouldn't move. Hope this helps.
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03-30-2019, 05:04 PM
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#130
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Senior Member
Join Date: Nov 2012
Location: Michigan
Posts: 597
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By the way, the two hex nuts on the frame that the U-bolt is going between are leftovers from an old sway control I removed and have nothing at all to do with the set-up. They are just keeping those holes in the frame filled so water doesn't get in. The Equalizer hitch didn't need them when it was installed.
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03-31-2019, 09:16 AM
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#131
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Senior Member
Join Date: Jun 2014
Posts: 530
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Thanks. I'm looking to do this, just needed to know what all I need to buy beforehand.
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03-31-2019, 09:33 AM
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#132
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Senior Member
Join Date: May 2017
Posts: 5,712
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Quote:
Originally Posted by NJKris
I really can't imagine somebody bothering to steal a WDH bar. That would be so odd.
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Brother-in-law lost his. Laying across A-frame. Also lost his power cord and so did 12 other units that night. Scrappers went around cutting the cords off the Trailers and any bars laying around. They caught them the next day...as the idiots were STAYING IN THE CAMPGROUND.
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08-15-2019, 09:54 AM
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#133
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Senior Member
Join Date: Aug 2019
Location: Racine, Wisconsin
Posts: 172
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I jus leave mine on my truck..... Why move anything while it's already stored? Makes for a nice step too.
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08-20-2019, 07:11 AM
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#134
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Senior Member
Join Date: Jul 2012
Location: Forest Grove, Oregon
Posts: 602
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I know this is a late response but, I use Ziploc baggies for the greasy part of the bars and put into a underbed bin that fits through the storage opening. The baggies hard comes off due to the grease, still using the original baggies since 2013. But I like the idea of the old rifle case as mentioned above.
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08-24-2019, 11:35 AM
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#135
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Member
Join Date: May 2019
Location: eastern Missouri
Posts: 77
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Quote:
Originally Posted by TitanMike
When I'm done dumping my tanks I pull my blue nitrile gloves off with them ending up inside out. I have a small cardboard box in my storage compartment that I drop them in. When I unhitch I merely take a couple of those gloves and slip them over the greasy ends of the bars and stick them in the pass through storage. Also put a glove over the trailer ball. Any contamination is on the inside of the glove and my bars don't seem to care.
When hooking up I then just pull them off and throw away. Double duty and they do a good job of keeping the black grease off everything.
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Exactly what I do! Double duty for the nitrile gloves. Plus more room at the land fill!
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08-24-2019, 12:17 PM
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#136
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Senior Member
Join Date: Apr 2016
Location: Port Charlotte Fl/Hinsdale Ma
Posts: 4,823
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I haven't read thru all 140 some post. I keep the bars and the head and ball right on the trailer.
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