Having the proper hitch

Just because the dry tongue weight is 1150 doesn't mean it will automatically go up according to how much you load into it. It all depends on how you load it. You want the tongue weight to be approx. 12.5% of the final loaded ready to travel weight. So it may be necessary to move things around until you get it right. On my trailer when I first got it my loaded tongue weight was 1500lbs on a 9200lb trailer. Way too much and it actually made towing bad. I moved stuff around and got it too 1200lbs. Towing was hen perfect. Sure I could've just gotten a 1500lb hitch setup with larger receiver. But that wouldn't have been the proper fix. What I always say to do is take the dry weight of the trailer add 1500lbs and then figure 12.5% of that for proper loaded tongue weight.