bpconversion goose neck conversion

Grit dog wrote:
Well, if the towing situation goes from whatever you said, just fine, to horrible with the buggy loaded in forwards, the only way to even guesstimate what the next move is, is to know the weights.

That's alot coming from me, never weighed a trailer or trailer tongue in my life and towed hundreds of different trailers, maybe 1000.

You need to experiment a bit as well before jumping into a potential solution, IMO.
But if the tongue is so light that it won't pull straight with the buggy in forwards, then I doubt the GN convo will be the answer. It will add some weight, but by stretching the tongue out, you'll lose a smidge of the original weight and won't see all of the 350lb device weight, so mathematically, I'd say maybe it will add 250-300lbs max to the pin.

With your axle placement and heavy tail wagging the dog, you may need to ballast the front or move the axles.

Curiously, the pic like I said looks like the axles are a bit fwd of a typical bp hauler, but I did a quick scale comparison of your pic and my old trailer on blubeam and your axles are about the same spot from Tounge to tail.
However that really doesn't matter. You've already talked about heavy stuff aft of the axles. I really think it's going to take some trailer mods or significant ballast up front.

Yes, I definitely need to weigh it empty and loaded before any changes. Technically I could weigh the truck then truck camper combo empty and I would have the be line for tw from that. I do plan on doing so once the weather gets better. I am going to buy a weigh safe hitch so I can weigh the tongue at home. Will be a lot easier to check different changes by different configurations. I have towed trailers and camper for over 20 years and never struggled with one like this. There is a fair possibility that i do not he 1200 lbs tw as I was told. It might only be 1000 and would explain towing well empty.


Yes, it pulls pretty good empty. Its only when loaded with a diagonal wind to dead side wind that it gets real squirrly behind my f350 drw. The duals add a lot of stability so that unto itself makes it very difficult to say by feel how far off it truly is.