Second Opinion, and a few questions
Hi! I posted a similar question on another forum (popupportal.com), and it was suggested that I pose the questions on here as well. I'm relatively new to trailer camping (I've rented a travel traile...
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krobbe wrote:
Some quotes from Ron:
"The WD hitch does not distribute “tongue weight”. It simply removes load from the TV’s rear axle and distributes it to the TV’s front axle and the TT’s axles."
"So, have we distributed the "tongue weight"?
Nope, it's still where it was to begin with. But we have re-distributed the load which was transferred from the tongue jack to the TV's axles."
My thought is:
The tongue weight doesn't get sent to another location by a WDH.
The forces of some of the load is transferred by a lever affect after the WDH to the TT front axle and TT axles.
OK, that seems like mostly a semantics difference to me at this point. The WDH using a spring to counter some of the tongue weight of the trailer, which has the effect of the front TV axle and the TT axle(s) of bearing more of the load. If the TT axles are bearing an additional portion of the load (based upon Ron's example/assumptions, it appears to be approximately 300 lb), then the TV won't have to bear that load as part of it's payload, correct? That's really the core of my conundrum, being payload limited.
