Hitch weight or tongue weight???

proxim2020 wrote:

Wireman134 wrote:
Loaded you'll be pushing that max tongue weight, that trailer will be tossing you around and if you brake hard you'll loose lots a weight off your front axle. Safer to get the WD hitch I'd say a 1000Lb round bar to compensate for any cargo you put in the bed of the truck.

Seriously? How much stuff do you think this guy will be packing? The trailer only has a dry weight of 3800.

Keep in mind, this trailer was made before the invention of the yellow sticker that gives a reasonably accurate indication of real dry weights. This person is in the same situation I was in back in 2008 with a different trailer. I bought a 2000 Shasta Ultraflyte 2547. 26 foot long, no slide, ultra light model. It had a brochure dry weight of 3282 lbs and a hitch weight of 520 lbs dry. I towed it for 2 years before I got around to running it across a truck scale. I was over my GVWR of 5,520 lbs by a few lbs and my tongue weight was 970 lbs. By remounting my spare from the front of the trailer to a rear compartment and moving other stuff around, I typically had a tongue weight of 850 lbs after that. I'd guess the yellow sticker on my new trailer is reasonably accurate, but I think we can be confident that trailers back then had dry weights listed in brochures that are not accurate.

I would assume you will be close to the GVWR and could have a potential 15% tongue weight. I would definitely get a weight distribution hitch and sway control.