How does the sway control work in an Equal-i-zer hitch?

DutchmenSport wrote:

LarryJM wrote:

dodge guy wrote:

BillyW wrote:

dodge guy wrote:
The system really doesn't have any real form of sway control! Look at how it's designed. It's basically a friction bar. The EQ statement hat he pivot points at the hitch head are the main sway control are also questionable. It would take quite a bit of angle on the hitch for them to do anything, and that control would be after the fact. The DC has the detents in the bars that increase pressure as the move, and once it stops it will want to return back to center. The DC is the better system. The EQ doesn't offer any sway control compared to the DC.

I respect your opinions and agree with most, but I'm confident you're wrong on this one. Friction works very effectively against sway. Though I have to admit I'm not at all familiar with the sway bars in the picture.

Yes, friction does work well as that is what makes it work on any system. but with the EQ, the angle required to make that friction work would require the trailer to be at a substantial angle to the truck for it to work. and EQ saying that the pivot points in the hitch head being the main sway control only confirms my point they are trying to sell a product based on something it cannot do! watch an EQ hitch when hooked up and working. the bars in the head do not pivot until the trailer is at least 10 degrees off center. the bars sliding on the L brackets move well before the bars pivot in the head. however the bars sliding on the L brackets are hardly enough to stop or minimize sway. as someone that has studied physics I don`t buy the claims of the EQ hitch. it just cannot work the way it is designed.

While you have a right to YOUR NON PROFESSIONAL OPINION I think you are totally lost on this one and I'll take the designers, manufactureres and engineers that are the professionals in the Equal-i-zer system and how it works. IMO non of the friction based systems are much better than another especially the top two .... Reese and Equal-i-zer so while you can believe one is superior to another that opinion I think is in the very small minority of RVers here.

Larry

The only argument I can truthfully reply about on these comments, is the simple fact, with my 35 foot TT and Equal-i-zer WD system, I've never had sway that I know of. If the trailer had sway, I'd think being that heavy and that long I would have detected it while driving. But to the best of my "experience", I've never had sway. So it must be working. Until science proves different 1 plus 1 does equal 2.