I have an older utility trailer that gets used for everything by everybody.
It was a tilt bed trailer where you pulled a pin at the tongue under the front of the trailer and was hinged at the rear of the tongue. The total length of the tongue was 6 ft. (2 ft. under the trailer and 4 ft. out front). I replaced it with an 8 ft. tongue that installs with 2 pins under the trailer.
I drilled enough holes in the tongue so I can make it 4 ft., 5 ft., or 6 ft. sticking out the front.