Switching From Hensley To SwayPro
Has anyone switched from a Hensley design hitch (Hensley Arrow or ProPride) to a Blue Ox SwayPro or other non-Hensley design hitch in order to simplify hitching and unhitching. I understand that the s...
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Roadtech wrote:camperforlife wrote:
You also need to be pretty straight on the tongue or it does make it harder to latch the bars.
Couldn't you, before latching the bars, pull the trailer to a level, straight place, and then latch the bars? You couldn't do that with a Hensley design.
You probably could with a shorter, lighter trailer. I have a 35 footer with 1500lbs of tongue weight and I've been in a few spots that were just impossible to get square on.
The spots were also where the site was sloped so the tongue was nose down and the front of the truck was up on the road making it impossible to lift the back of the truck to remove or latch the bars properly. I ended up hitching without the bars resulting in dragging the tongue some getting up on the road.
I will add that this happened when I was pretty new to the hitch and I've learned a few things that have made these kinds of situations easier and safer.
