Help with hitch / tongue weight

Ron Gratz wrote:


You are correct that adding load behind the TV's rear axle, with WD engaged, will cause load to be transferred to the TT's axles.

And all I'm saying is that this additional load should and can be considered "TONGUE WEIGHT" since that is what the WDH is designed to do and that is to DISTRIBUTE TONGUE WT. which in this case included that extra cargo wt. that constructively appears at the ball/coupler position.

However, transferring load to the TT's axles does not cause the vertical load on the hitch/receiver to be increased.
Quite the opposite -- it causes the vertical load on the hitch/receiver to be decreased.

And I don't think I ever said that ... hoewever just like normal tongue wt. which undistributed is what you compare against the receiver's specs and size your WDH bars for the actual numbers at the various points are not in question. If that were the case then you could say load up a WDH system where the TV wt. is increased by the reveiver number and that would well exceed the receivers specifications by the amount that the TT axle wt. increases because of the WDH.

Ron

I think the whole point here is to understand what wts. we should be considering if we want to say within the specifications of the various components of the WDH system (i.e. receiver, WDH bars, etc.)

Folks IMO are looking at what is called "TONGUE WEIGHT" is too narrow of a definition is IMO again it is composed in a WDH configuration of several components, one of those being this temporary cargo wt.

Larry