Hensley Arrow: How does it REALLY work?

bettered wrote:

TeryT wrote:
Still would like to see that trailer mock-up on dollies - I'd buy the beer!

Oh brother. The two guys who are interested in putting casters under the the TT wheels and pushing it sideways are on the east coast and TeryT wants to buy us beer in Scottsdale. Thanks, Tery, but I'm no fan of warm beer..

Yuk, yuk

But I'm skeptical. I want to believe this would work, but Ron's analysis is making me think I'd prove myself to be too emotionally involved with my hitch.

Ed

Wow, everyone's been busy.

Ed, I'll buy the beer...if you have any idea where to get the dollies. I'm quite sure that the swiveling dollies will work providing that they roll freely enough to push around a 3 ton TT by hand.

The video that Tim posted of me swinging my hitch through it's range of motion while mounted only to my stinger is the only way that the hitch can move. Doesn't matter if it has a come along pulling on it...doesn't matter if it has nothing mounted to it, and doesn't matter if it has a trailer mounted to it, if it is to move it must move the way that video shows. :) It's resistance to sway comes from the unusual path of motion that it must follow, and the fact that the TT's tires resist that type of motion, because it's basically a sideways skidding motion for the TT.

Speaking of come alongs... where's Milt? Hope he didn't get mad and leave.

The promo mockup video from Hensley is an accurate depiction of the HA's motion as well, except for the fact that it is a mockup, and it shows the hitch very favorably due to it's geometry. Notice the direction that the guy is pushing...down, nearly as much as sideways. The downward force puts enough friction on the rear TV and TT casters (which I would bet are fixed, not swiveling), that they can't slide sideways.


Dave