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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LarryJM wrote:Larry, your statement is incorrect. You need to re-read what Ron posted.
---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I can appreciate what that document Ron referred to, but it's not IMO univerally use and is woefully out of date with the last revision being almost 40 years ago.---Well, you're welcome to your opinion -- but I think all the manufacturers who continue to rate their towing equipment based on VESC-5 and its SAE look-alike, SAE J684, would argue that the VESC-5/SAE-J684 testing protocol IS universally accepted for its intended purpose.
The only criticism I could find of VESC-5/SAE-J684 is that it only covers trailers up to 10,000# GVWR.
The need to have a rating system for heavier trailers is discussed in How Hitch Manufacturers Are Designing Class-V Hitches To Extreme Capacity Levels
However, the bottom line is that VESC-5/SAE-684 specifies that WDH test moments are based on trailer tongue weight and NOT on tongue weight plus the weight of the WDH.
Ron
