ProduceMan
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Finally got around to doing this. A little history - the tongue on my trailer was way too short. But I needed it short to make the transition from the street to my hillclimb of a driveway. My rear wheels were needing to get wet and the tailpipe bubbling in order to get the boat deep enough to launch. I toyed with the idea of mounting a receiver tube under the trailer frame to which a 2nd tongue would be mounted to be used at the ramp. Nixed that plan when I found a metal supply store that had what I needed. The trailer's main frame was 3" x 3' and there were no obstructions inside it. So I bought an 8' length of 2 1/2" x 2 1/2" sq 3/16" wall steel tube that fit fairly well inside the trailers frame. Bought two 5/8" x 4" receiver pins at Harbor Freight and a new coupler to fit the new tongue. Drilled holes in the trailer frame and two sets of holes in the new tongue. One for the retracted length and one for the extended length for launching. The extension yields a 5' increase in tongue length with 3' still inside the trailer main frame for rigidity. I placed one of the pins horizontal and one vertical. I may end up welding some band iron around the pins holes as well as the neck of the trailer frame for good measure. Still have to prime and paint the extension and run some grip tape along the topside of it to walk on for solo launching.