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Challenges with Traditional Gooseneck Hitches

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UnReal trailer with a "FLOATING Gooseneck" ?!?

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The inventor of the 'Float Ride' system, Lane English, explains that as row crop farmers, they frequently used gooseneck trailers but encountered significant structural integrity issues (stress fractures) on their fixed-neck trailers due to rough roads and constant shock. This led to trailers 'tearing up' within months, regardless of the driver, and created an unpleasant and damaging towing experience.

Goal: The video explains the inherent problems with traditional fixed-neck gooseneck trailers, specifically highlighting structural integrity issues caused by constant shock and impact during towing.

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the office and uh kick it around and see if this is an avenue we want to explore here here comes the these are the owners right here okay these two guys uh he's the idea guy and i guess he's the the better on camera guy i guess i don't know i'm i'm stand playing english and i would ever i would shake your hand but some people get offended when i shake their hands so oh i wanted a hug actually i'm kidding um okay elaine is this your idea this is my ideal yes yes okay so these are dealers and we're all looking at this thing and can you walk us through this thing sure um let me start with the background while we came up with this trailer we're row crop farmers and we've always had trailers gooseneck trailers and you know gooseneck trailers are a tool that you gotta have some things are too big for a semi some things you can't fit in the back of a pickup so we've always had goose necks the problem we have uh going down highways and back country roads and farm roads and things like that over time the structural integrity of our fix neck trailers they were tearing up not the first day not the first month but sometimes feeling who was driving it in three to six or nine months we were tearing up a brand new trailer all right i'm gonna jump in here because i'm gonna rely on some of you guys that have experience pulling goosenecks trailers is what he just said sound accurate i don't pull one but i've done a little bit of research on them and found out that those trailers suffer from a lot of stress fractures between when the hitch hits the the solid hitch hits the solid plate receiver in the bed it takes a lot of abuse on the trailer and the truck that's pulling it but you guys that pull these things for a living know better so let me know so um we'd weld them up keep going but it got to where nobody wanted to pull the fix next potato it just was horrible they didn't want to do it they do they go dig a ditch before they you know it's just brutal so a long story short okay i gotta go find a trailer that can dissipate shock energy the transfer of shock energy between the truck and the trailer and there wasn't one and i'm like you know i think there i think there's value there if someone could come up with something that could dissipate the energy between the truck and the trailer and over the years i have seen some plug-ins um that have come out they're they're ingenious the and i think they're a great thing because it's you know you buy it for a minimum amount you…

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