Possible switch to 5th Wheel....Questions

handsome51 wrote:

valhalla360 wrote:
Strength of the hitch is a complete non-issue with the trailer you are pulling any name brand hitch will be plenty strong enough.

It is easy to say that you are happy with a rigid hitch set up for you 5th wheel , if you have never pulled your 5th wheel with a good air hitch and a Holland/Brinkley Head. Yes they are expensive. But you are only buying it once. Then your 5th wheel will float down the road instead of being jerked around and your truck being jerked around by the 5th wheel.How I ended up buying mine is while I had a cabover camper for 23 years and was retiring in 2006 and buying a 5th wheel. A friend of mine had a 5th wheel with the regular rigid hitch. He had been pulling his center console boat behind the 5th wheel to the lake. At the beginning of the year he bought the airsafe 25K air hitch. He said he had forgot and left his soap bottle on the kitchen counter when he left the lake for home. We are talking a 2 hour drive. He said when he got home the soap bottle was still on the counter. That is all I needed to hear. Plus his exact words to me was: I am not saying it is worth the money but I like the ride.

I am sure those air hitches are great. I have only towed three different fifth wheels, never experienced some of what you are saying with what you describe as a rigid hitch.

Two of those fifth wheels had a conventional pin box. They towed okay, no chucking , but yes you knew they were back there. My present fifth wheel has the MorRyde pin box, and a much better towing experience ,I don't know how much smoother I could ask for, if an air hitch is smoother great. I just don't see the need for anything better.

As far as the contents of the fifth wheel inside, everything is great when we get where we are going, so no complaints there.

My point , the OP is talking a 27 foot fifth wheel. an Andersen hitch, and MorRyde pin box would serve him well, and no need for expensive air hitches ,nor pin boxes.