Hensley Arrow: How does it REALLY work?

This picture proves, real world, inarguably, that the Hensley hitch locks up from the travel trailer end.

This is what Hensley states.

Any statements to the contrary are extraordinary, and will need some extraordinary proofs, under the rules of the liberal scientific method. Such proofs are lacking in this thread, Tluxon, there are a lot of red herrings and proofs by assertion, but no answer to the photograph, not one. All forces from the trailer are applied to the hitch head by pushing the struts, and the photograph proves, by simulating a 4000 pound push on the left strut connection by a 4000 pound pull on the right connection, that the hitch is locked up, and that it will be destroyed before it unlocks.

This makes the Ron Gratz imaginary hitch assertion that the hitch does not lock up, False.

Ron Gratz, and others, also continue to fail to differentiate between tow vehicle inputs and travel trailer inputs.

As I have repeatedly pointed out, the virtual pivot point is applicable only if the towing vehicle is initiating the directional change. Unless you can get it through your heads that the Hensley is a unidirectional device, you will continue to describe an imaginary hitch.

As for Ron's ongoing nonsense in this direction, I refer him back to my illustrations regarding the hitch and the explanations that accompany them. If he wants, I will conduct a class for him with a real Hensley Arrow hitch.

There certainly is a virtual pivot point, and it matters only when the tow vehicle is turning. It has further use, in that it provides the third pivot point that causes the linkage to lock. It just isn't the virtual pivot point that the Ron Gratz imaginary hitch has.

Ron asserts, without proof:

The HA does not "lock up".



My Hensley Arrow does, and here is proof that it does. Hensley also states that it does.


The HA does not prevent the trailer from swinging.

Another Ron Gratz imaginary hitch statement. The photograph provides absolute proof that it is locked up, and that will certainly prevent any swinging. If you wish, you may falsify this by simply loosening the struts and observing the trailer swinging. Again, when presented with experimental proof, Ron ignores the liberal scientific method, and continues to make assertions. That is all he can do, he does not have a hitch to experiment with.

Lateral forces on the TT's tires control the swinging.

The photograph shows that the hitch is locked up without tires. The statement is a red herring, as travel trailer tires are not necessary at all, nor is a travel trailer for that matter. The hitch works hanging in free air.

The HA works by reducing the magnitude of lateral force and by moving the effective point of application closer to the TV's rear axle. This significantly reduces the ability of the TT to "steer" the TV. This, alone, is sufficient to explain the HA's anti-sway capabilities.

If the Hensley Arrow is locked up, any lateral force is necessarily transmitted to the whole tow vehicle, through the receiver, and vehicle frame, as there is no pivoting taking place at any point. The picture, and the Hensley website statements and explanations, proves the hitch is locked up. This fact, proven and demonstrated, prevents the TT steering the TV.

Deal with the real world, as represented by this picture. Make no assertions without proofs and falsifiability.