Andersen No-Sway Experience
Over all I give the Andersen a thumbs up. Initial install is simple and quick. Its ability to move weight forward on your rig is surprisingly good. It pulls well and handles sway about as well as coul...
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There we have it. All the numbers are there. Hopefully it is understandable, I had to collect it from multiple trips across the scales and from multiple excel files.
So am I to take from your comments that you believe Open Range makes an "incredibly inferior trailer design" and that the Sierra SLT Duramax 2500HD is an "almost equally inferior tow vehicle"? Thank you for your polite and kindly expressed opinions, Your thoughts are noted.
My experience? Bad practice? After 15 years involved in trucking both offroad and OTR, do you not think I have seen my share of destroyed equipment? bridge strikes, dropped loads, broken axels, rollovers etc? I have seen more wrecked trucks and injured workers then I care to remember. Shall I count up the hours I have spent dealing with DOT on overweight, over-dimension permits and unit configurations? The hours spent at scales moving fifth wheels and adjust boosters and jeeps?
I am in no way saying that I "know more" then anyone else who has been through the same experiences. All I am saying is that I feel my "experience" gives me an understanding of moving loaded equipment from point a to point b safely and efficiently and that I believe I have sufficient "experience" to drive said equipment, and express "opinions" on the matter of towing.
Do you believe that when I was assembling all the pieces of this rig, that I did not run all the numbers? Believe my I did, extensively. Any person who wants to responsibly and safely pull an RV needs to aware of all the factors surrounding the operation of that equipment, TV, Trailer and Hitching Equipment. My earlier posts were not intended to add to the numbers debate and negativity that goes on with almost every towing thread that appears on here. Indeed, I leaned away from the actual numbers with the intent of staying out of the numbers game.
I merely made an effort to offer my own experiences and personal thoughts on what this particular piece of towing equipment is like to use.
I believe I have thorough understanding of what the intent of this forum is and I would like to thank you and 2 or 3 others for clearly and in such a polite and outgoing manner explaining it to me.
Happy Camping (Season is almost over up here but I hope as many of us as possible have used or will continue to use their RV as intended and gotten out of the city to spend quality time with friends and family)
An incredibly inferior trailer design pulled by an almost equally inferior tow vehicle and connected by an obviously unsuitable hitch . . .
So am I to take from your comments that you believe Open Range makes an "incredibly inferior trailer design" and that the Sierra SLT Duramax 2500HD is an "almost equally inferior tow vehicle"? Thank you for your polite and kindly expressed opinions, Your thoughts are noted.
"Experience" (anecdote) might be helpful . . but it is beside the point. And the point is in minimizing risk. I run the oilfield. Want me to relate the number of drivers I see who fail to maintain proper fifth wheel lubrication, both in Oversize/Overload and Haz-Mat? Who need not speak/write English to be licensed to do so? Your "experience" speaks no more loudly than theirs, sir. Bad practice is just that.
So you ignore numbers in your job as you do with your personal rig?
My experience? Bad practice? After 15 years involved in trucking both offroad and OTR, do you not think I have seen my share of destroyed equipment? bridge strikes, dropped loads, broken axels, rollovers etc? I have seen more wrecked trucks and injured workers then I care to remember. Shall I count up the hours I have spent dealing with DOT on overweight, over-dimension permits and unit configurations? The hours spent at scales moving fifth wheels and adjust boosters and jeeps?
I am in no way saying that I "know more" then anyone else who has been through the same experiences. All I am saying is that I feel my "experience" gives me an understanding of moving loaded equipment from point a to point b safely and efficiently and that I believe I have sufficient "experience" to drive said equipment, and express "opinions" on the matter of towing.
Do you believe that when I was assembling all the pieces of this rig, that I did not run all the numbers? Believe my I did, extensively. Any person who wants to responsibly and safely pull an RV needs to aware of all the factors surrounding the operation of that equipment, TV, Trailer and Hitching Equipment. My earlier posts were not intended to add to the numbers debate and negativity that goes on with almost every towing thread that appears on here. Indeed, I leaned away from the actual numbers with the intent of staying out of the numbers game.
I merely made an effort to offer my own experiences and personal thoughts on what this particular piece of towing equipment is like to use.
I believe I have thorough understanding of what the intent of this forum is and I would like to thank you and 2 or 3 others for clearly and in such a polite and outgoing manner explaining it to me.
Happy Camping (Season is almost over up here but I hope as many of us as possible have used or will continue to use their RV as intended and gotten out of the city to spend quality time with friends and family)
