pro pride or hensley hitch tongue weight

LarryJM wrote:
---The second is what I call the "receiver tongue wt." and that is the load that the receiver must carry and has two components, one is the dead tongue wt. and the other is the WDH/Sway system which includes the drawbar, hith head, and WD/spring bars. This "receiver tongue wt." is what is stamped as the limits on the receivers and often is for with and without WDH.

My interpretation of the document which defines allowable tongue weight for a receiver -- Regulation VESC-5 -- says that the weight of a typical WDH is accounted for in the maximum tongue weight specification.
Therefore, when using a conventional WDH, it should not be necessary to add the weight of a WDH/Sway system to the trailer's tongue weight when considering the receiver's maximum allowable tongue weight rating.

However, since the Hensley Arrow and ProPride hitches did not exist when VESC-5 was written, and since the HA and PP are reported to weigh around 100# more than a conventional WDH, I would recommend that users of a HA/PP hitch should add 100# to their TW when comparing against the receiver's rating.

Ron