Everyone is going to laugh at this question but I need some help?

If you are not going to put too much weight (over 100 lbs.) in the sled a bumper hitch works fine. If you will be going over rough terrain or you are going to put more weight in the sled, I would use the tunnel style.

You can get a universal bumper style that simply wraps around the bumper with a U shape and has short carriage bolts and nuts that drop in at the top of the U.

These are available at most mail order houses.

I have used both types for transporting supplies into a week long stay at a remote rustic cabin somewhere in 'da UP.
 
I generally only use mine for towing my sleigh with fishing gear. It works good on the bumper and it is still straight. Hope that pic helped out tyler66665
 
When ice fishing last year I was thinking a rigging some sort of U clamp to the bumper. Wrap rubber strap around the plastic first so it doesn't scratch. But the clamp would be part of the boggan hitch so when I don't use it I wouldn't have a hitch on my SRX. Then my father bought a venture this year and got a hitch for it...

But then we don't have far to go and only one hill to go down. So I'm thinking we can save a couple of hundred bucks and simply get this sled from Snow Trek. As long as you don't let go of the gas going downhill it should do the trick for 40$.

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yes until the time comes where you need to brake suddenly, and unplanned......and BOOM, sled plows into the back of your sled.

I used one of those as well previously, with the same intentions, and it was broken into 10 pieces on trail.
 
I also used my SRX 700 for ice fishing, I never got around to building a hitch for it, it seized up last season. I had a nice hitch on my Phazer I think it was from Dennis Kirk. If your pulling a larger sled with steel tounge be sure one end or the other has a universal fitting. It keeps your ride and the sled separate incase 1 decides to tip over.
 
i've been looking at the hitch idea for my srx. i take the kidds rides in our old yam srv sleigh i found in a building at least thats what the stickers say. I tow them with a old 74 tnt but what a pain to get started and that little 440 glows with 3 or 4 little kids yelling go again, faster faster. The plastic tub may work better if you put pvc pipe on the ropes then the pvc will stop the sled from rear ending you.
 
Most of those tubs have an accessory hitch offered by the manufacturer.

Usually 2 pieces of thin wall galvanized tubing (like EMT for electricians) and a shock absorbing swivel hitch.
 
Where I use to do most of my mountain riding, you either stayed at the cabins on the lake or set up your own walltent camp. Hitches are a must. Our camp was a 16 mile ride in from the trucks. Need to haul in fuel, coolers, and other gear on the skimmer. Plus maybe need to pull out a dead/busted up sled. Initial set up of camp and tear down in April-need to haul all out to trucks.

No hitch on your sled in our group and most groups that ride in this area, no riding with us most of the time.

My new hitch I have to install on my MNT Viper is a flat piece of aluminum approx. 4" wide and long enough to reach to the main tunnel as I have a tunnel extension for my 156" track on my sled. Drill holes and rivet to tunnel, and maybe 2 U-bolts abound the rear bumper.

Hope this helps.
 
I have added a hitch on my old SRV. I used a piece of
aluminum 1/4 thick. I bent two 90's in it so it fit flat under
the seat then down 2" and then out 2". Then I mounted
a heavy duty commercial door hinge to that. The hitch
hole I drilled. Then I cut away the rest of unwanted metal
only leaving a 2" tab in the center.

Works great, I have pulled my snowmobile trailer out of a
huge drift with it.
 
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