Around 6/14/2005 11:35 AM, Shortwave Sportfishing wrote:

On Tue, 14 Jun 2005 18:04:12 GMT, "Doug Kanter"
wrote:

Maybe. Some trailers, like mine, have beams which are not 4-sided. The beams
on mine are open on the inside. U-bolts will bend the frame. Not humorous.

Unless you have extremely light gauge steel, a Ubolt will break or
strip before it bends the steel.

Or if, as in my case, he has a trailer made out of some extremely light
gauge rust.


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On Tue, 14 Jun 2005 12:12:38 -0700, Garth Almgren
wrote:

Around 6/14/2005 11:35 AM, Shortwave Sportfishing wrote:

On Tue, 14 Jun 2005 18:04:12 GMT, "Doug Kanter"
wrote:

Maybe. Some trailers, like mine, have beams which are not 4-sided. The beams
on mine are open on the inside. U-bolts will bend the frame. Not humorous.

Unless you have extremely light gauge steel, a Ubolt will break or
strip before it bends the steel.

Or if, as in my case, he has a trailer made out of some extremely light
gauge rust.

Good point...