WD Hitch Weight % Transferred
Obviously, the answer to my question is going to depend, but what is a good rule of thumb to use when estimating how much weight a WD Hitch will transfer from the hitch? Another thread recently sug...
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gmw photos wrote:Thanks for the numbers. It's good to see that your 23% of TW transferred to the TT axles agrees well with theory.
---I have 600 pounds of tongue weight. When the trailer is just on the ball, with no weight distribution, my steer axle loses 300 pounds. I set my WD hitch to restore that 300 pounds to the steer axle, and in doing that, it also increases the load on the trailer axle by 140 pounds.---
As others have stated, the vertical force on the ball remains 600 pounds.---Perhaps you mean vertical force on the hitch?
With WD applied the vertical force on the ball becomes equal to the tongue weight
PLUS the downward force exerted on the A-frame by the two WD bars
MINUS the load transferred to the TT's axles.
In your case, the vertical force on the ball might be 600+1000-140 = 1460#.
The front ends of the WD bars would be pushing upward against the bottom of the hitch head with a force of 1000#.
The net downward force on the hitch then is 1460-1000 = 460# -- which is equal to the tongue weight MINUS the load transferred to the TT's axles.
So, with WD applied, the vertical force on the hitch (and the vertical load on the TV) is decreased by the amount of load transferred to the TT's axles.
Ron
