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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Ooops...I stepped away from the keyboard for a few days or I could have resolved this. Yes, I understand that I need to add in the WDH, but also understand that it isn't a wash with the weight transferred to the TT axles.
Actually I do currently have a trailer with a minimal hitch weight that could actually easily be towed without WDH. I am in the market for a new TT and was really just wanting to roughly estimate what my pickup could handle when I'm looking at all the different offerings in the marketplace. Some of them I can eliminate automatically because I know for sure they will cause me to exceed the allowable load on my TV and some I know for sure are light enough that it won't be a problem. It is for those in between that I was looking for a rule of thumb to apply to see if I'm close enough to even bother really sitting down and running all the numbers.
Of course the really hard part is until I actually hook up the TT to my TV, load it with my camping gear and take it to the scales I won't know for sure.
Still not sure that I have a good rule of thumb to use, but it looks like 10-25% hitch weight transfer to the TT axles seems like a good range.
I like to be conservative, so to tell the truth I'll probably end up with a TT that doesn't exceed my available capacity without the WDH and allow the WDH to give me the 10-25% margin that I feel comfortable with. And as previously noted, I will allow that transfer to help cover the weight of the hitch itself which I guess I should go weigh when I get a chance because I'm pretty sure it don't weigh a 100 lbs like I keep seeing used here. Shipping weight (including packaging, etc) on several of the WDH's that I just
googled were between 50 and 75 lbs. I know it isn't a lot, but 25-50 lbs would cover the weight of one of the dogs and a kennel.
Actually I do currently have a trailer with a minimal hitch weight that could actually easily be towed without WDH. I am in the market for a new TT and was really just wanting to roughly estimate what my pickup could handle when I'm looking at all the different offerings in the marketplace. Some of them I can eliminate automatically because I know for sure they will cause me to exceed the allowable load on my TV and some I know for sure are light enough that it won't be a problem. It is for those in between that I was looking for a rule of thumb to apply to see if I'm close enough to even bother really sitting down and running all the numbers.
Of course the really hard part is until I actually hook up the TT to my TV, load it with my camping gear and take it to the scales I won't know for sure.
Still not sure that I have a good rule of thumb to use, but it looks like 10-25% hitch weight transfer to the TT axles seems like a good range.
I like to be conservative, so to tell the truth I'll probably end up with a TT that doesn't exceed my available capacity without the WDH and allow the WDH to give me the 10-25% margin that I feel comfortable with. And as previously noted, I will allow that transfer to help cover the weight of the hitch itself which I guess I should go weigh when I get a chance because I'm pretty sure it don't weigh a 100 lbs like I keep seeing used here. Shipping weight (including packaging, etc) on several of the WDH's that I just
googled were between 50 and 75 lbs. I know it isn't a lot, but 25-50 lbs would cover the weight of one of the dogs and a kennel.
