Bent WD snap up bracket on dual cam setup.

Frozen001 wrote:
Well, I returned home over the weekend, and with the replacement standard bracket and noticed that the new one is beginning to bend. So I decided to get my tongue weight.

Yesterday via the bathroom scale method. In my first measurement, I got 1350lbs of tongue weight. This is with the trailer not fully loaded for a trip. Missing are basically clothing and food items as that is pretty much what we have to pack for a trip. I also will sometimes travel with some water in the fresh tank, so I added about 1/3 of a tank and the tongue weight went up to 1500lbs. Either way, I am looking at DOUBLE the published tongue weight. I understand that the published is basically empty with no propane tanks, battery, etc, but I did not expect it to be double when loaded.

So I am grossly exceeding both my bars, and the standard snap-up brackets (which BTW are rated at 800lbs it appears). Guess I going to move up to the 16K Equalizer setup, as buying the pieces to the Reese are also the same cost. This will get me some increased ground clearance (at least it appears I will).

yup, published tongue weight is often WAY below actual. It is the measured weight w/o any batteries (60lbs each) or any propane in the tanks (30lbs each) both of which add 100% of there weight to the tongue, along with the weight of other stuff. My trailer had an advertized tongue weight of about 800lbs, don't recall exactly, but when we got the trailer I weighed the tongue w/o any batteries or propane and off the lot and it was close the factory number. Once I put on batteries, filled propane, loaded the trailer with our stuff, tongue weight was 1400lbs, with full water tank about 1550.