So, have we distributed the 900# "tongue weight"?
Nope, it's still where it was to begin with. But we have re-distributed the 900# load which was transferred from the tongue jack to the TV's axles.
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Ron, thank you for your continuing examples and explainations. I understand and agree with most everything you are saying but I still have one problem. You are saying that the 900# load is distributed, but not the 900# tongue weight. Let me please entertain one more example:
You put a scale on the ground directly under the TV's ball. You put a wood post between the scale and the ball just the right length to make contact. Now the scale just reads the weight of the post(lets say 10#s). Next you put the tongue of the TT onto the hitch ball. You look at the scale and now it reads 910#s. I assume you agree with me so far. Next you hook up the WD hitch and tension the bars. This distributes the load more equally on all the axles which I ageed with all along. Now are you going to tell me when I look at the scale it is still going to read 910#s?? I can see how the actual pounds down on the ball has increased by 1700#s, but that is TENSION force from the WD system and is countered by the 2000# upward tension force.
All that said, I have a feeling that the scale would read much less than 900#s now, as the rear axle moves back upwards.
If this is true then you have to admit that the gravity weight between the tongue and the ground has lessened, which is why some say tongue weight has been redistributed or is less. Do you see that point of view??
