Leaving 5th Wheel Hitch Hanging on Kingpin
I saw a picture the other day on a travel blog of a 5th wheel trailer sitting in a campsite with the 5th wheel hitch hanging from the kingpin. It looked like the owner had parked the trailer, took ou...
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Dave Wilburn wrote:
Where does all the weight of two people sleeping in the master bed go?
It goes the exact same place the 100lb hitch weight goes.
Anybody with a trailaire hitch knows that the truck and trailer move independently and all the weight of the trailer isn't always on the hitch, sometimes over rough pavement the hitch jaws hold the pin down. You can test this by leaving the lock mechanism on a conventional trailer undone and see how many miles you get before the hitch comes up off the ball.
Its a non-issue to leave the fiver hitch hanging...other than its something else to walk into.
Some of that weight goes on a tripod that I have under the pin, when the trailer isn't hooked on to the truck.
