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17/11/2017 at 12:05am
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Hi, bit of a long shot this one but does anyone have pictures or instructions of the tow hitch accessory fitted to the bigfoot mover, as you can no longer buy these things I thought I'd have a go at making one but i could do with some pictures of how they fit, especially what I take to be the hinged bit at the back? I have downloaded the brochure & looked on you tube but I can't find anything that's very clear, any help would be appreciated, or failing that does anyone have one for sale?
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17/11/2017 at 7:02pm
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Towhitch accessory? It clamps in place of the original jockey wheel normally.
Is that the one where you fit a towball instead? Make your own from a flanged towball and a jockey wheel clamp?
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19/11/2017 at 11:13am
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Bigfoot do two attachments as well as the original jockey wheel replacement, the one that im interested in provides a tow ball which allows you to use the caravan tow hitch without removing the original jockey wheel. As i said in my original post I don't mind having a go at making one but i can only find pictures of the ball end of the attachment & how it fastens to the original jockey wheel via a clamp, but from what i can see the opposite end of the plate to the ball has what looks like a cut out hinged piece of metal & in most photos there's also another separate small gold coloured bracket that looks like it works with with this flap somehow, maybe fastening to the mover itself? I don't know! Before i attempt to make one i could do with a picture or someone who has one of these explaining how this end of the attachment works
Having had another look at one of the pictures that i have, it looks like this bracket could attach to the A frame of the van somehow but i am clutching at straws
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19/11/2017 at 7:59pm
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Several options and you can make it as easy or hard as you want.
Easy option get a jockey wheel clamp to clamp the the shaft on the mover and bolt/weld a flanged towball to the clamp.
Replace the shaft on the mover with a shorter one and bolt/weld a flanged towball to it.
Towbar drop brackets are a cheap source to make your own fixings from.
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20/11/2017 at 8:57am
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All I remember seeing years ago was on older caravans there was a plate under the hitch end of the A frame which had a slot about 2 inches wide which the break away cable passed through. There was a plate with a towball fixed one end and the other end of the plate went through this slot. It was just a straight rigid plate no hinge.
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21/11/2017 at 10:00am
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Thanks for that Birdman, i have only got a really poor picture of one in action which doesn't show much detail so it could be unhinged, maybe that was to hold the mover ridged & stop the clamp from swivelling around the Jockey wheel shaft?
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23/11/2017 at 10:37am
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I have just looked at our caravan this morning and the breakaway cable still passes through a slot ,but not as wide as older vans we owned. So all you need is a flat plate with a narrower tit on the end to locate in this slot with a towball fitted to the other end to go in the hitch. This will then hold secure, and then fix a jockey wheel clamp to the plate to clamp the Bigfoot
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