Help with hitch / tongue weight

ktmrfs wrote:
Rather than talk about what is or is not tongue weight, I think about it more of what weight do I want the WD hitch to distribute. Like Larry, My truck bed is usually pretty full.

even w/o the trailer hooked up, the front of the truck rises some, not much but some.

I've set my WD hitch up so that with my typical truck bed load AND the trailer hooked up, once the bars are engaged, the front of the truck is back to the level it is if there is NOTHING in the truck bed and NO trailer hooked up.

So, like Larry, my WD hitch is transferring this extra weight, in this case tongue weight and stuff behind the truck axle, back to the TV front axle and Trailer rear axle.

CORRECT and at least YOU UNDERSTAND and what does get somewhat confusing is using the term "TONGUE WEIGHT" and thinking it's a fixed value. I like to refer to the weight of just the trailer tongue as "dead tongue weight" to differentiate it to things like tongue wt as used in receiver capacities and even WDH bar sizing where the latter includes this temporary "CARGO" weight.

Larry