What trailer sway looks like

BenK wrote:

goducks10 wrote:
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I mostly agree with your statement. But to a certain degree design of the trailer frame and loading comes into play. Move the axles as reward as possible and you almost completely eliminate sway. Never see boat trailers swaying. JMO but it seems that too many TT mfg's are not building TT's on TT specific frames. How many TT's have the axles close to the center? Couple that with poor loading and you get a TT that's prone to sway.
Build it right and load it right and no sway control should be needed.

But then there will be more tongue weight and the biggie portion of
the masses (herd or middle area of the bell curve) are the lowest class
of TV's

I see so many trailers trying to stay as close to a 10% DRY weight tongue
as possible

Absolutely agree. I think that's why the spread axle came to life. Spread the weight across a wider area and move the axle points closer to the tongue to reduce weight for the less capable tow vehicles.
My last trailer (TT) actually had a 9% dry TW with spread axles. I had to work hard to get it to 12%. It never did tow all that well. Even after several WDH's. Only one that worked was the Hensley Arrow. I just don't feel it's right to have to buy that type of a hitch to get a TT to tow well. If they had moved the axles reward on my TT by about 1' or so it would've tracked much better. Nothing wrong with wanting to buy an HA, but it should be bought because you want to completely eliminate the possibility of sway occurring, not to control present sway conditions.