....you should be able to find a good (and more modern) jack for your trailer.
I should look for another one. I had 2 trailers and the one I sold and a crank handle and 2 metal wheels on the jack. That would be so much easier then this large wheel.
I will give you credit for a level tow height of the 105.
"NO TOWER OF TERROR RECEIVER!"
I actually was thinking of using those adapters but they were not tall enough. The receiver on the truck was very low to the ground and I would have had to have a 16" tall adapter. The trailer says it's max weight is just over 7K when fully loaded. That would probably twist off an adapter very easy.
I was going to weld on another trailer hitch I had from my other truck but after removing it and getting ready to weld it, I noticed it was only rated for 6k load with a 600lb tongue max. The receiver that was on this truck is rated at 10K with a 1,500lb tongue max.
It still needs a little welding done but it happens to touch both frames. The bed frame hangs over the truck frame so the receiver touches both. Kind of like an upside down L shape. I need to weld some plate along the inside truck frame going onto the receiver. I will be happy with that and trust towing 7,000 lbs.
Thanks for the info NEIOWA. I don't think I can make it though. The nut is stuck so I can't remove the bent jack wheel. It is bent so bad it can only swing back a few inches. In the pic I posted, the clearance you see under the wheel is the max I have right now. There is no way to tow it like that.
I also noticed I messed up my lights. I was in a hurry to connect them back up after welding and I apparently pulled to hard and broke one ground wire and must have done something else because I only have 1 brake light now and no running lights on the bed or tail lights. O, and only the 1 tail light works with turn signals but blinks regardless of which way you signal. The fronts work fine though. lol
"...I know it looks bad using a truck..."
Naw. Just tweak the color. Spend a weekend with some camo rattle cans then sneak in behind a CUCV and the average spectator won't pay it a 2nd thought. Make use of the bed, too with a couple piles of faux-cannon balls or something.
The cannon display is really quite unique. You could develop it over time to be like a diorama. A couple mannequins in uniform in proper poses, some landscape...
I like it a lot.
BTW - towns pay crazy money around here for guys to fire their propane replicas. Mebbe that main town might have a change of policy. And you've got all those other suggestions for towns . . .
Just sayin' . . .
Steve
LOL. That sounds like an idea. I need to repaint the truck anyway. I've used rattle cans on my vehicles for decades. I've never done a camo color. The tool boxes are a good height for sitting on. Kind of like the troop seats in a deuce. Maybe make some ribbing on the ladder rack with a tarp and make it look similar to a covered carrier.
I was looking at using styrofoam balls for cannon balls but the cost at the craft store was too high to get the amount I needed.
Years ago when we fired for Cedar Rapids, we tricked people using Styrofoam balls. We would pass around some concrete balls to the crowd and when they handed it back we would carefully switch off the heavy concrete ball for a styrofoam ball. We held the "fake" balls like they were heavy and let the people see the now "fake" ball in the end of the barrel and then ram it down. The blast totally destroys the styrofoam ball but people would swear up and down they could see the "real" cannon ball going through the air over the city. It was so hard to keep from laughing when people were serious saying they can see it. When they wanted to know where it was going, we would say stuff like the mall parking lot on the other side of town or make up addresses of where a "catcher" is at that retrieves the balls for us. One year we said we were firing into the river bank on the opposite side from where we were at. A few hours later we see kids digging around on the muddy embankment looking for the balls. We of course told the police river patrol right away to go get them out of there so they didn't fall into the water. The kids came back sad they didn't find anything so we gave them some of the concrete balls we had been passing around. They were real happy then.
If I could get the deuce semi passable enough to legally drive on the road (has bad tires, brakes, lights) I would rent a flatbed to use. I like your idea of mannequins. I could probably do that or find some friends to dress up. I also have a replica Cushman Airborne scooter (needs some work) that I could use. I also have a Russian T-72 inflatable tank. It is one of those full size inflatables that would be used to make planes flying over think real tanks were on the ground. I could almost paint it differently and make it look like a US tank or at least a captured tank.
When I first got it, I inflated it right in front of my mobile home in our trailer park. I was checking for the small leaks it had and after about an hour, the police helicopter was flying over (that they did sometimes) and while I was under the tank, I noticed the sound from them and it wasn't leaving. I crawled out from under it and they were circling right above the trailer park over and over. I left the blower motor running to keep it inflated and went inside and watched them. They circled for 20 minutes before leaving. I was sure a cop was going to arrive or something. I would love to have heard what they were saying over the radio about it.
