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Would You Do This? GEN-Y Gooseneck Hitch for Brinkley RV
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Come along today for our DIY install of our new GEN-Y Gooseneck hitch on our Brinkley RV! That's right! the two of us are attempting to install this 175lb hitch all by ourselves... Will it be a disaster? Will it void our warranty? Watch to find out!
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TIMESTAMPS:
0:00 Removing our old hitch
2:29 GEN-Y Offset Goosepuck Install
5:18 Craig's Birthday!
5:46 Removing Rhino Box Pin Box
11:24 DIY GEN-Y Gooseneck Install
15:17 Testing the Gooseneck
17:37 Vet Visits while Full Time RVing
19:05 Decluttering the RV Storage
23:26 Trip to storage unit
25:10 First Travel Day with New Hitch
Who are we?
We’re Victoria & Craig, a full-time travel couple currently living the RV lifestyle! In 2021, we realized life was too short to wait to chase our dreams, so we purchased a used fifth wheel camper and completely renovated it. After selling our house in Florida, we set off on our journey as full-time RVers. Full time RV living has taken us across the United States, Baja Mexico, and Canada, where we’ve fallen in love with boondocking in stunning locations and living an epic adventure travel lifestyle. In 2023, we upgraded to a brand new Brinkley RV Model Z 3100.
Join us as we explore new destinations and embark on new adventures. From hiking, rock climbing, and paddle boarding to surfing, off-road exploring, and cooking around a campfire, we live our travel couple lifestyle to the fullest! Subscribe to our channel (bit.ly/3JF0VmZ) and come along on our adventure travel life!
First of all, we have been subscribers of your channel almost since you launched it. We love it. We have a lot in common - we have a Z3100 also with the fifth wheel Gen-Y and wouldn’t have anything else. Although hard to tell, it does appear you may need to consider raising your bolt up on the RV to the top bolt on the frame, as it appears to still be slightly running a little high. Oddly enough, we have had the same little Weber grill you just bought for years and love it. We currently use the small propane bottles but intend to get a 20 foot hose assembly so we can use the on board propane tanks. Here is a great tip for your Weber - before using it each time, we line the grease catching tray AND the whole inside of the unit, under the burner area, with foil. That makes cleanup so much easier and you only need to clean the grates themselves. Again, love your channel and look forward to each episode. PS - we have 800w of solar on our rig but have not yet pulled the trigger on the Victron 3000w inverter charger and lithium batteries - any advice would be appreciated from your lessons learned.
We are happy to hear you are loving your GEN-Y Hitch!
I just put a Gen-Y gooseneck on my Keystone cougar back in October 2023 . I did a 1800 mile round trip. I love the Gen-Y. I tow with a Ram 2500 short bed.I don't use an offset . I never came close to hitting the cab. I had a BW slider before the Gen-Y. Never once used the slider.... O and greese that ball lol
Hey Guys!!! It was nice meeting y’all!!! Victoria did a great job removing and installing the hitch!!!🎉
So glad we got to connect!! And thank you!!! 😄👏🏼
Hey guys! Being an RVer since before you guys were twinkles in your parents' eyes, I say from experience that you can never have enough tools! Truly, you have to be prepared for self-rescue and self-sufficiency! With having owned over a dozen RVs, they are less and less reliable. Our current 5er bears the name of a brand considered to once be one of the best, but it has had more issues than all of our past campers combined! Anyway, we enjoy watching your channel, and wish you safe journeys!
Ahhh, so you bought a Montana.
Congratulations on the switch from the 5th wheel to the gooseneck, I think you will be happy with the ride! I currently run a Reese Goosebox 20 K on my Keystone Sprinter 5th wheel trailer with a 2020 Ram 2500 Diesel, factory puck system.
One major difference between the 2 systems is the Reese has shocks and air bladder that can be adjusted via compressed air depending on the pin weight. I was previously using a Curt 20k 5th wheel hitch in my Chevy. When I changed trucks my Ram had the "puck" system which required me to convert the Curt to a puck. That was going to raise the nose of my trailer up 2 to 3" making the trailer nose high. The Reese is still a little high using a Curt gooseball but not as high if I was going to put the adapter for the 5th wheel on. I found that Reese does offer a shorter shank ball that would drop my nose another 1" or so but they aren't cheap.
My overall rating on the Reese Goosebox is a 9 out of 10. Hooking up without a spotter is different from hooking up a pin box. Not previously using a non-shock 5th wheel hitch our ride was very disturbing. Switching to the Reese Goosebox has made all the difference in the world in our towing experience. The previous bucking and chucking has been eliminated for the most part. The first time my wife rode with the Goosebox she wondered if the trailer was even back there!!
Looking forward to your comments in future videos about the new system.
Safe travels!
Pat
One thing you don't do, is complain to a man about his tools. He does the work and you never know what you may need on the road. Better than having to keep buying them.
Love your channel. Enjoy it immensely ❤
Thank you so much for watching!
😂 that's right! Broke down in my semi and fixed it on the side of the road. Can't never have to many tools.
Only if the Rv company authorize it as a replacement. Love our gen-y Haven’t pulled a fifth wheel much at all but I could feel the difference the first time I pulled
Happy Birthday Craig! We've pulled GN Horse trailers for years! When we get our Brinkley we will FOR SURE be getting the GenY GN Hitch!
Not a bad idea!!
Happy birthday Craig! That was a pretty genius way of using the truck to install the Gen Y hitch. And great teamwork!! That looks so much easier than the regular 5th wheel hitch. Safe travels and I look forward to seeing you slay on the Weber, Grill Daddy.
Great job guys. Happy Birthday Craig… BTW. The best part of your channel is Craig’s accent. I die laughing each and every week!!! You two are awesome. Be well!!!
Haha!! Thank you so much!!
Thanks guys amazing. Gonna install same with our new Brinkley. Love his safety sandals!
Hi guys... Happy Birthday craig.... You guys did a great job in installing that together.... Victoria.... Don't mess with the man's tools...lol... Sorry we didn't get a chance to meet you at the show.... Hopefully we'll run into your on the road... Thanks for the video... Stay safe...J&A
Thank you guys so much! Sorry we didn't get to meet up, but I'm sure we someday.
I love using ratchet wrenches! There’s something satisfying hearing that noise when it ratchets.
Yes I agree!!
The Gen-Y gooseneck was the first and best upgrade we installed on our ATC Toy Hauler. Great customer support and Christian based company!
Weber grill is where it’s at! You’ll love it! Gen-Y makes quality hitches!
Happy birthday!! I’m impressed with that install!! That look like a major project. We hope you enjoyed the Tampa show. It was very awesome to have met Craig in person, sorry we missed seeing Victoria… love the video, thanks for sharing and stay safe!! 🤍 Freddy and Bryan
Thank you, guys! I did tell her you said hey. I'm happy I got to meet you both!
Thank you for your videos on the Gen-Y gooseneck hitch! We just purchased one for our FW. 👍
That Weber is absolutely the perfect size. I’ve traveled with 5 different grills including Blackstone and Traeger. The Weber you bought is what’s in my RV now. We travel 3-4 months out of the year.
We have the same gen y gooseneck on our Brinkley 3100 (#495)! We love it!
Oh niceee! Glad to hear you’re liking it!
Happy belated Birthday Grill Daddy!!!!! Great team work on putting on your Gen-Y Gooseneck Hitch well done. Anyways I also have a Gen-y hitch on my fifth wheel but a B and W slider hitch on my truckI am satisfied on the ride it's smooth. Can't wait till next vid!!!!
It was great meeting you two at the Tampa RV show. You're both so friendly and easy to talk to. As for the new Hitch. I never owned a 5th wheel but the goose neck is the only way I would go. Good decision.
It was so awesome getting to meet so many people!! Hopefully, we can run into each again someday!
Happy Birthday!
Side Note: I don't own an RV, but I told my husband that if we get stationed back in the lower 48 I want to live in an RV (Military Family). For now, I live bicuriously watching everyone's RV-related videos.
God Bless you folks!!! I'm 35 year Navy Vet. Hope you get orders back to the lower 48 real fast!!!!
DANG
I wanted that exact hitch but in 2022 loppert didn’t warranty it on my Keystone Cougar. I went with a Reese air ride goose box which turned out to work awesome two of my friends have Gen Y and love them. You will love the extra room. HAPPY BIRTHDAY 🎉 Good luck with your install
Craig, you will love that little Weber. I bought one 18 years ago for our pop up, then used it in our travel trailer, and loaded it into our Brinkley last week. It still has the original burner, igniter and grate. They are super easy to convert to connect to the camper quick connect.
That's good to hear. I haven't got to try it out yet. But I am excited about using it.
Happy birthday! Thanks for sharing that the cake came from Piggly Wiggly! I grew up with that being the neighborhood store. Childhood memories!
Haha!! It is still the only grocery store in that area.
Great video guys. We have the same Gen-Y on our Grand Design. We have been pulling with it for 2 years and have had no issues. Easy install and saves so much space.
The space savings alone were enough for me to make the switch.
I used an inside the bed , behind the cab tool box for tools, etc. it was below the side of truck so out of sight. You can still use a bed cover also.
It was great bumping into you guys in Tampa. You guys are so informative and entertaining. that is a great combination for a successful channel. I am super impressed that you guys got that installed yourselves. those hitches look super heavy to deal with. Thanks for showing that it is possible and the clever ways you found to work smarter instead of harder to get it done. Keep up the great videos. BTW, we bought a Z3100 at the show so hopefully we will see you out on the road someday.
Congrats on the new Z3100!! and I'm so glad we got to chat! Honestly, I was pretty impressed with ourselves once we got it installed and it turned out to be a painless process overall. Thanks so much for watching and hope to see you again on the road!
Happy Birthday Craig! I will be interested to see how well the GEN-Y works out for you. That will be my preferred set up as well. And Well Done Victoria on unbolting the old hitch! See you next week.
We have now traveled about 400 to 500 miles with it, and it's been going good so far. Thank you for the birthday wishes!
Excellent music choice when backing the truck up with the hitch in the bed to hook to RV. Very adventuresome! My fav moment of the whole video is when we see Craig cringe but call himself “grill daddy” anyways lol! I think you guys are my favourite RV couple putting your story up on TH-cam!
Eh "Grill Daddy" 🥳Happy Birthday !!!! 🥳Hope it was a Great one... Hmmm, GenY, I'll be taking notes.✍ Enjoy your stay in the 💥HEAT!!!💥 😁 Hi Victoria!!!👋
We travel with that same Weber grill and we love it! You will too, I’m sure!
I'm excited about getting to try it out this week.
Makes me glad I bought my truck with a factory gooseneck installed. As far as storage buildings go most are not rodent proof within a few months you can toss everything do not store anything in cardboard boxes use sealed totes Happy trails guys good video
First video for me I've never smiled or laughed on any other full time show so ya'll have moved to the #1 watch spot.
Full time rv living is a great life in my fifth 5th wheel over 16 years full time.
Have fun and don't let the stress get the better of you, my best advice I can give you ! I don't follow it but it's a start 😊
After towing around our 150# Yamaha generator for 10 years (and it’s a dream machine - just big and heavy) we purchased a 3500 watt MaxSpeedingRod generator that only weights 48# without fuel. Only $548 via Walmart Online last Oct 2023. Yeah, we have to pull a cord to start it now, but the size and weight are great.
You two make a GREAT team, and your doggies are so cute.
Thank you! But don't let the dogs trick you they are a handful, lol.
We used a Weber Q100 for the entire 10 years we were fulltime in our New Horizons 5th wheel. It stored great and was easy to set up. We found 2 problems which no grill we've found solves. 1. Because they are small, they do get greasy quickly, so good cleaning is required to keep them operating well. 2. The wind always seems to blow and swirl right when you want to cook - our solution, we got a small folding cafeteria type table which also stored well for the cooking base, and then made a three sided wind screen that we clamped to the table with large spring clamps. Made a world of cooking difference. My recommendation is make or get the3sided wind s reen asap, you will be thankful you did.
I'm sure you'll going to like the Weber. It does a lot better in the wind than similar barbecues. Highly recommend buying some aluminum drip trays. And like anything, the Weber does require a little maintenance. Enjoy!
The wind is my main complaint with the Blackstone. So that's nice to hear.
Happy Birthday Craig aka Grill Daddy! Great job on the install and enjoy the new grill - you can make lots of burgers now. I laughed at the tool sorting - we have those issues too! Safe travels to you both.
Thank you so much!! I never want to get rid of any tools.
Happy birthday! I have had my Gen-Y gooseneck for 3 years on our GD Reflection...luv it wouldn't have anything else! Safe travels
Thank you so much!! I am so happy with the install.
@@wildrvlife double check the height looked a little nose end high but I was watching on a tv. I have about 7" clearance from bed rail to bottom of camper.
Gooseneck Hitch's are GREAT. I have a Reese 20,000 Air Ride with Scale on are 2016 40' Dessert Fox Toy Hauler 3 axle and my wife and I have been full-timing it for 7 years now. I am 65 and she's 62. Have been to all 49 States, Canada, and Mexico. in are 2001 Ford F-350. We have 2 Polaris 500 Scrablers in the back. We call RED BLUFF, CA home, we do have a house there that we only see about 2 months out of the year. Hope you enjoy the ride.
Storage is such a waste of money. For the amount you spend in storage fees every year you could buy everything in there again brand new. We learned this a couple years ago when we got rid of our storage unit. Yes, I had to go buy something that I know I had but that was only a few times and the cost was so much less than it costs to keep everything in a storage unit. I digress, great video on the Gen-Y. We going from a Reese Goosebox on our Solitude to a Gen-Y Executive Gooseneck on our G3500. I am interested to see what your first impressions are.
Yeah I wish we didn’t need the storage unit, but there are some things that I just can’t ever replace with any amount of money, like the handmade grandfather clock from my grandfather, all our childhood memorabilia, my wedding dress, etc. lol so we just got the smallest storage unit we could and figured we might as well fill it up since we had it 😅 we will keep you posted on the GEN-Y though! So far, so good!
Hauling gooseneck is a game changer. We won't go back. We run the Reese Goosebox and love it. I only chose that because we are a large toyhauler and our load amount changes and the ability to change the ride quality on the fly is easier with the Goosebox. I think you'll be happy Craig!
Did you go with the Reese 20k? I’m looking into them. We are getting the valor 40v13
Great video. We love our Weber Q BBQ! A recent purchase for us. I'm not a fan of the Blackstone, never owned one, but have cooked on them and other cast iron flat tops. I love grilling on them, but the daily clean up is a chore! Just not practical for RV travel either.
We really enjoy watching you two. Keep it real and Happy Birthday Grill Daddy Craig! 🎉
Haha!! Thank you guys so much! And I completely agree on the Blackstone
The height looks a bit high… you can adjust with all the bolt holes.
The Goose neck ball is ideal, it comes on Brinkley’s Toy Haulers- 5th or Goose.
You did a great job mounting that up with improvised methods.
Dump that low power impact… even Harbor Freight has nice battery ones, DeWalt & Milwaukee too… game changers.
20v DeWalt power tools is the way I went. He definitely needs to upgrade.
I absolutely hate the little flimsy plastic side tables on the weber. They don't hold any weight, plus you can't put anything hot on it. But the grill size is good for sure. Love the new gen y hitch y'all got. Enjoy watching y'alls video.
Thank you so much for watching!!
We use the Weber grill ourselves.It's the Weber 200 with split grill and switched out one side for the griddle. We can cook almost anything on it.
Craig, it was great getting to speak with you at the show on Thursday, sorry Victoria was working. We love you guys. I am not a Blackstone fan either and I love my Weber Q. Keep the great videos coming and safe travels.
We have a much older version of the little weber grill. We have been using ours for over 20 years. Great little grill.
That's really good to hear!
great video, thanks for posting! I was considering getting this one I get a Brinkley.
We wish we would have had it from the beginning!
We installed the Reese Goosebox on our Reflection a couple years back. Fantastic upgrade. We wish the GenY had been certified by Leippert back then because it is simply the best. You will love it. Safe Travels!
That Webber grill is great. I’ve been using one for 3 years as my main grill. Cooked all sorts with it from steaks, burgers, chicken, potato’s. Love it. Hope it works for you guys too.
HAPPY (late) BIRTHDAY!!! That is super small I had no idea. Good job. Thanks for sharing.
Thank you so much!!
I like the. Gooseneck rv shocker hitch. You adjust the air to the trailer and pin hitch load . With air ride you glide
We have a 3100 that we had the dealer install a Reese 20K gooseneck hitch on when we bought the trailer new. Tow it with an F-450 so we can't get the trailer completely level even though we had it installed in the top most holes. We're about six inches high off level in the front but we haven't experienced any problems with it yet. Love the Gen Y hitch too but the Reese also works well. Good luck in your travels with it. Also have a Weber grill like yours. We love it as it's compact and cooks well enough. We installed a new propane system so that we could use it wi9th the propane tanks on the 3100.
Just to let you know, I've been using the Weber grill for 2 years. They make griddle inserts for it which are very handy. I usually keep one side grill and one side griddle. And it will get 550 degrees with no problem.
We saw those griddle inserts and were thinking of doing the same thing.. best of both worlds!
The Weber Q is awesome IMHO. I have two. We use one at home, one on the road. Drawback is they don’t work good in MN winter, too cold.
I can't wait to try mine out it fits perfectly in the camper also.
I had a GEN-Y Gooseneck installed on my alliance paradigm 385fl when brand new
Such a good hitch!
Happy birthday Craig from across the Atlantic and thanks for your videos. They are fun and help us with our own plans. greetings from Germany
Thank you so much! And that is awesome to hear!
Happy Birthday Craig. Hope you held on to all of those tools cause you never know when you will need em! 😊 Wishing safe travels to you.
Thank you so much!! I kept most of them just in case, lol.
Happy Birthday Craig. That Goose neck should work great for you. I have not taken that step yet but you may start thinking about it again.
Keep the old hitch if you can so when you trade in the rv later, you have the original hitch to put back on it and take the goosebox with you. You will want to add length to the pull cord. It's entirely too short if you are trying to unhitch it alone.
We have been using the Weber grill for 10 years. Works great every time . Cooks very well. Good looking hitch . Safe travels.
We have that grill!!!! Love it. We had one in Punta Gorda, and have another on our farm. One is smaller like yours, and the other one is larger. Great grills.
It was so great meeting you both in Tampa! We’ve been following you two since shortly after you launched and really enjoy your videos! Happy birthday, Craig, and keep up the great work!!
Fancy meeting you here, lol and Happy Birthday. We enjoyed our brief conversation, and enjoyed the “selfie” picture! Safe travels!
haha so glad we got to connect! and thank you!
Happy Birthday Craig! Great job on the install and always looking forward to your videos! Thanks 😊
Thank you so much!
Happy Bday, Craig! My cousin has a gooseneck coupler he put on his Montana and loves it. Yours is much fancier than his and his works like a beast.
HAPPY BIRTHDAY CRAIG FROM DOWN UNDER AUSTRALIA 🇦🇺
That's awesome! I want to visit Australia one day. It's on my bucket list.
@wildrvlife You both definitely won't regret coming down under, it's a great country to visit😊
Happy Birthday, Craig. I love my Weber Q. And I'm like Craig, got to have plenty of tools and multiple same sized sockets. 😊
Well, I’ve had an excess of 27 RVs. In all my years 17 of them were fifth wheels my present fifth wheel is a 44 foot toy hauler. Would I ever convert it to a gooseneck not on your life you better have a routine to check the front gooseneck frame rails on your fifth wheel where the outriggers are. You should get in the habit now of checking that out once a month, it’s one thing to have a gooseneck and tow a little horse trailer. It’s another thing to tow a huge fifth wheel like I said my fifth wheel is 44 foot excess of nearly 20,000 pounds would I depend on a little tiny ball and it will want to create additional stress on the frame Area where the fifth wheel connection is on my fifth wheel, good luck on that. Thats what makes the world go round. We all have our different opinions and that is mine. Good luck on that. Obtw, Rv frames are made specifically to be towed w the ball hitch or 5 th wheel hitch, again good luck.
if/when I get a 5th wheel, I would certainly splurge for the Gen-Y gooseneck. I have their bumper pull hitch and love it. Props for the self-install! Watch out for those footsies.... very hard to find the conversion table. ;)
Haha!! Thank you so much!!
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Our Gen-Y was $150.00 cheaper than buying the Kingpin hitch for our 21 Ram Truck we have a longbox so we didn't need to purchase the offset apparatus 😅
We pulled our Alliance Valor 40v13 off the lot new with the Gen-Y and absolutely love the way it rides.
Happy Birthday and God‘s Blessings! We love watching your show. Appreciate your knowledge, kindness to each other, and your great attitude, no matter what happens. 🥰
Thank you so much!! And thank you for watching, we appreciate the kind words ❤️
“Happy Happy Birthday Craig”. Steak Dinner/Seafood
Great channel, Have enjoyed the content. Considering a 3100 as our first rv.
I would think the offset ball would put the weight in a non supported (structural) location in the bed of the truck. The mount is designed to take the weight not 6 inches behind it. Will be interesting if you bed gets messed up long term.
Thank you so much for watching and commenting! Let us know if you’ve got any questions about the z3100. The weight distribution is an interesting question and from the research we did, the consensus we found was that the 5” difference was not enough to impact the integrity of the truck. However, sometimes the long term impacts of MANY years of use can be hard to say sometimes. We probably won’t have the truck that long to find out lol, but I might reach out to GEN-Y and see if they have a more technical answer because it is something we thought about as well.
Based on all of GEN-Y's in-house testing we have noticed very minimal weight distribution using the 5" offset GOOSEPUCK due to the weight still being tied back to the original connection point!
I have two of those grills! One of them I've been using for 15 years! You're gonna love it
For the last fifty years I’ve been deeply immersed in the heavy truck industry and always thought the RV 5th wheel assemblies were pretty hokie! Lotta parts and pieces to break, bend and come loose!!!
Love the Weber grill been using them over 25 years goes from the back yard of the house to the rv and back you can use the big tanks and the little green one also my wife thinks I carry to many tools until I need to fix something love the channel.
Had a Reese goosebox on our shortbed 5th wheel for 9 years. Love it
Do you find it difficult to line up the hitch and ball?
I have one of those grills, has the table and everything, (Costco set), and I hook it up to the gas line on the RV. It’s a great little grill. The only complaints I have is that it cooks pretty uneven, because the heat is so concentrated to the burner, which is just a small tube. There isn’t the kind of mass or rocks that larger grills have to more evenly distribute the heat, so you have to really think about where you place the meat you’re cooking. The other thing is once again, because there are no rocks or baffles, all the drippings sort of just cake up in the bottom and make a fairly big mess that requires cleaning out the bottom from time to time. But nothing is perfect, and you can’t beat Webber quality.
Happy Birthday! Just ordered our 3100 with the gen y yesterday. We have the b&w turnover ball in sb GMC. Dealership install, but I should have hired you guys!! Love the improvisation!! Stay safe - God Bless!!
Was awesome meeting y'all!!
Happy Bithday guy and Jenn your partner did amazing job of install .Love you guys
Thank you so much!!!
Happy Birthday Craig
Thank you so much!
Nice job! I enjoyed this video. Informative, personal and a bit of humor.
Thank you so much for watching!
Should need the slider or offset adapter even with a short box. I have hauled campers for the last 6 years with short box and never had an issue even turning 90°
I love our Weber camp grill. Perfect 2person size and cooks even. I hope you enjoy yours.
Ooh good to hear!! Looking forward to using it
I've been a fan but didn't know you are from Port St Joe. I'm in Apalachicola. Can't wait to hear about the goose neck hitch.
Oh wow! what a small world! Been to and through Apalachicola so many times. We're still really loving the gooseneck hitch. Wish we would have gotten it long ago!
We only have the Weber grill and LOVE it for the camper.
Happy Birthday ! We are still in the break in period for the hitch on our 2900 but we are liking it so far. Mad that you can now get them in black ….that would match the trailer , Dang it !
I put a Gen-y on my trailer. Love it
Nice!! Wish we would have started with it!
The Gen Y is a great system, I prefer my B&W Companion OEM Puck for our Ford F-350 DRW Crew Long Bed with our Z3100
It is a lot of preference and old school truck drivers like me just love a King Pin vs. ball. No safety chains. A perfectly loaded trailer is the key to any hitch system.
Again it’s all preference. Hope it works well for you!
I agree! There’s a lot of personal preference, but we are enjoying it so far, thanks for watching! 🙌🏼
I hated my Blackstone a ton. I do much more with my regular grill and I threw the Blackstone back into storage and probably will never touch it again. Glad it wasn't just me
Happy Birthday, Craig! you guys are so adorable. Keep up the great work and stay safe please. ❤❤❤
We went with the Reese Goosebox 2 years ago and I just don't see any reason I'd go back to a conventional 5th wheel hitch. Having it or the Gen-Y saves a considerable amount of weight (over 100lbs for us), frees up the entirety of your bed (I don't run an offset in our shortbed Ram or GMC) and if you have a a bed view camera, hooking up is still a piece of cake. The only additional steps is the chains.
Happy Birthday Craig!!!
Your new hitch is awesome.
We enjoy all of your video. You both are so funny. Safe travels to you both ❤ and your pups 🐶
Hello y’all. Lorin & I bought a Brinkley 3100 Z because of you. We LOVE it. Also had the gen y goose neck installed at delivery. Well worth it. We bought the B&W set for the bed.
Happy Birthday young man.
First-Happy Birthday! Sorry the cake was dry🤣. If I had it to do over, I would install the Gen-Y hitch. We had something similar on our horse trailer and it was way easier to hitch up.
Since you like spicy foods, make sure to try Toot's in Murfreesboro, TN if you pass by on I24. They have the best chicken tenders I've ever tasted and the "Napalm" sauce will be something you will never forget. We have our Z3100 on order and will pull it with the exact same Ram Longhorn as you have. Hope we don't park close to each other.
WOW. Awesome installation. Get yourself some kettlebells to stay in shape. Enjoying watching y’all.
HAPPY BIRTHDAY Craig 🎉🥳🎂nice you could spend your day at your parents!! Great Job on hitch 👍
States safe 🥰🙌