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How do people move their golf carts around when you tow a travel trailer? Kids are dying for a golf cart but I have a short bed 1500 truck and I'm close to capacity with tongue weight.

 

I saw a larger trailer with a platform with a Motorcycle on it. Then I thought about the possibility of parking a golf cart on a platform. I understand the weight issue of placing 1300 lbs of platform and cart on the back bumper. I would need to increase the tongue weight to counter.

 

Just curious.

 

 

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@ 66 Nova, I've thought about the toy hauler...which probably requires a bigger truck anyhow. I was just trying to spend an additional 40k just for a $3,000 dollar toy.

 

@ Donstar, I agree it probably is the best option. We stay at membership campgrounds mostly and living on the mid Atlantic the options are pretty thin for more off the grid camping.

 

@ Heavy 5.7, sure they would prefer to have quads or dirt bikes. The problem is that there aren't many options to use them in Maryland. Nearly all state land is watershed or conservation... and federal land relatively non existent or has soldiers on it.

 

 

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Have you looked at electric bikes and trikes? Some are closer to motorcycles than bicycles but no license required. I have an electric 4 wheeled scooter my mom used before she passed away. The grandkids love driving it and it fits easily in the back of my truck!

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The problem is that there aren't many options to use them in Maryland. Nearly all state land is watershed or conservation... and federal land relatively non existent or has soldiers on it.

 

 

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Anything here close to you?

http://dnr.maryland.gov/forests/Pages/ORV/home.aspx

http://dnr.maryland.gov/forests/Pages/orv/trails.aspx

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A few hours away for most. I guess I'm stuck up from living in Utah and Colorado in my childhood. Because I read that there is a 1.7 miles ORV trail....and I think "2 hr drive for an ORV park tharts 4000 ft on its long axis.... what do you do with that? Idle your way back and forth?"

Someone did send me a PM about a place in Pennsylvania that's a private ORV park. Maybe I'll check it out. Most people seem to have family land to drive on.

 

Thanks for looking out though.

 

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Seriously? a kid that wants a golf cart. Dirt bike, quad, RZR I can see it but a golf cart, wow.

 

Why do you care what his kid wants? Are all your posts so negative? Jesus, you're a scorned woman.

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Put a hitch on the TT and pull a small trailer behind it with golf cart on it. I see people frequently pulling a boat behind their TT. Tongue weight doesn't apply then. Actually, might take a few pounds off the tongue weight on the truck hitch.

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In an emergency how do you safely stop this conglomeration?

 

 

No different that any other situation. The rear trailer wiring is plugged into a receptacle on the rear of the forward trailer, just like the forward trailer is plugged into the truck receptacle. The very same methodology that commercial trucks pulling multiple trailers use. One steps on the brakes and all trailer's brakes also are applied.

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A few hours away for most. I guess I'm stuck up from living in Utah and Colorado in my childhood. Because I read that there is a 1.7 miles ORV trail....and I think "2 hr drive for an ORV park tharts 4000 ft on its long axis.... what do you do with that? Idle your way back and forth?"

Someone did send me a PM about a place in Pennsylvania that's a private ORV park. Maybe I'll check it out. Most people seem to have family land to drive on.

 

Thanks for looking out though.

 

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Rausch Creek north of Harrisburg...and PA has at least two OHV parks now...

 

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My only thought is make sure it's legal in PA...I want to remember there are specifics on legal towing of doubles (main trailer is a 5th wheel hitch, second trailer can only be so big, etc.).

 

While I see it all the time out west, I very rarely see doubles pulled in PA (short of the OTR trucks)...which leads me to believe something turns people away from it?

 

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No different that any other situation. The rear trailer wiring is plugged into a receptacle on the rear of the forward trailer, just like the forward trailer is plugged into the truck receptacle. The very same methodology that commercial trucks pulling multiple trailers use. One steps on the brakes and all trailer's brakes also are applied.

It is very disturbing you actually had to explain that.

 

Guess people think we tow and solum race with the same configuration....lets see how far we can kick out the tag trailer today Herb....

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