pro pride or hensley hitch tongue weight
Given that the Pro Pride and Hensley hitches weigh 200 lbs give or take, where does that weight figure in the calculations of tongue weight? So for an example loaded trailer weight is 6000 lbs. ...
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AH64ID wrote:
Receivers are rated for trailer weight and tongue weight, the hitch is not part of either of those.
As I originally said ... I'm not going to try and convince anyone and what I posted were "MY THOUGHTS" and nothing has changed that. The argument that the hitch is not part of the tongue wt. is something that even Ron disagrees with and he even adds some of the HA/PP hitch wt. to the tongue wt. I also feel that if an extra 100lbs of tongue wt. is going to break the bank then you are probably too far "on the edge" so to speak already. Since you could basically have a convential WDH locked onto the tongue and hook up much as you do with the HA/PP by backing the TV into the DRAWBAR/stinger then as far as I'm concerned the WDH is just something else that is added to the tongue of the trailer that effect the tongue wt as seen by the TV receiver. This is not different in my view as adding say more the heavier batteries to the tongue, a generator or even a bike rack to the tongue of a trailer ... they all contribute to the tongue wt. as seen by the TV receiver.
I can appreciate what that document Ron referred to, but it's not IMO univerally use and is woefully out of date with the last revision being almost 40 years ago. There are obviously different opinions on what is to be included in TW so it is sort of up to one to decide which "camp" so to speak the wish to pitch their tent in.
Larry
Larry
