BurbMan
“Good grief. But since you don't own a HA and towed with one only once for all of three miles, I wouldn't expect you to have an informed opinion about this.”
I can only say that you are correct that I have very little experience with the HA and no I don’t own one… Have I tried to hide or deny this???
but I did consider one for a long time and searched out as much information as I could about them… so I am inexperienced for sure, but not necessarily uninformed… I might just say very many HA owners and users seem to be pretty well uninformed but apparently still had a bigger budget than I…
Safety defect… in my informed or uninformed opinion, however you choose to look at it, I believe to be true, and gave my reasons for that opinion (that I am sure you have read)…
“Once you get the hitch and brake controller set up properly it's a non-issue.”
But in short, I believe that these are two of the most important and independent systems for TT towing… I believe they should work at peak performance as independent systems and neither system should be reliant on the other to preform properly, all of the time…
It is completely up to each of you to decide what if anything that opinion is worth, but it was and still is my opinion I independently own it and stand behind it… the only question I see here, is I respect your opinion, and except it as valid even though we might disagree…
As far as the Hensley bump, it makes little difference if you have experienced it or not… I have read hundreds of others that have experienced it to one degree or another, to many tondiscount it or not even acknowledge it… I believe each of them never experienced it until they did also…
If I am buying an expensive hitch I am not interested in the law of average, and even if I were Hensley would lose that bet… by virtue of the numbers standard friction hitches I would expect have logged many more reported trouble free miles as a total or percentage…
Wes Tausend
Thanks for the thoughtful and well-reasoned post… your knowledge and perspective is well above mine and I really appreciate the time and effort you have put into your post today and in the past…
But I will admit at least some of it challenges my mind to understand and follow along… that alone makes for a great read…
THANKS…
