Help with hitch / tongue weight
Hello All! I'm in the early stages of camper shopping (wanting to upgrade) and I would love some help understanding the tongue weight limits. I have read on 1000 different sites that the max tongue w...
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Walaby wrote:
Yeah, probably 1/10th of 1 percent was a bit of an exaggeration. Point is though, if people set up with their TV and TT loaded as they intend to camp, it will be covered. If they are so close that adding a cooler in the back after setup makes them worried, time for a new truck.
If my wife had her way, I'd find a truck I could stick a Fiat 500 in the bed... I'd have to accommodate that too.
Mike
But the counter point that I think is even more important is that everyone should at least BE AWARE and I'm an example, the gent with the RAZR might be another and IDoMyOwnStunts apparantly is a third just in this one thread where this issue might need to investigated and some resolution found.
Your thought of having your truck loaded as they intend to camp is fine, but is it real that every single person when they are setting up their WDH has they wife all the kiddos, all the firewood they will EVER TAKE, the bikes not jet bought, and the two generators I mentioned that they will discover they need after that first trip there. While it's sort of the way you read things the information I linked to from CEQUENT I feel is meant to cover situations where one is carrying cargo that was not covered when their WDH was originally setup or they know might vary trip to trip.
I will say that in reality this issue probably won't really effect the vast majority of folks, but the real issue was the mistaken concept that the tongue wt as seen by the WDH system and IMO also the receiver is not just limited to what you might measure the tongue wt. on a Sherline scale, it can be hundred of lbs more in certain cases. THATS THE REAL POINT and what caused all the initial discussion here, not whether the weights were significant or not.
Finally, your comment about the cooler and new truck demonstrates I feel where many are missing the point. This is not about payload, what a truck can carry, etc. It's about buying and sizing the correct WDH system and IMO by extension staying under the tongue wt. limitations of your receiver. These are basically truck independent so the issue is valid on your F-450 just as much as your F-150 except the receiver on the F-450 would hopefully be higher rated than the F-150.
Larry
