I use to pull a 16' aluminum fishing boat with mine on the bumper, once was enough.
My truck new didn't come with a receiver type hitch and I really wanted to go fishing that day and didn't have time to put the hitch on.
I put the hitch on the next day and never pulled from the bumper again., at stops and goes it felt like the bumper was flexing in and out.

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