horton333 wrote:
totaldla wrote:
horton333 wrote:
Typically a trailer axle to rear wheels is going to be longer than front wheels to rear eheels, so reflected weight is less than half the weight transfered to the front wheels which is where my flyer of a 100 pounds is coming from. Sure could be 200 or even more sure, a very short but very heavy front trailer it could be 300.
That would be truly ironic if someone thought more was always better to the point of taking too much weight off the rear wheels with weight distribution, and ending up with worse stability.
Hmmmm, so if I cranked the WD hitch up till the rear wheels on the tow vehicle are off the ground, where did the tongue weight go?
Well I don't think you could get it to that extreme a point, you had said you had seen some that may have been near that point (or at least that is what I read, " I've seen WD hitches setup so you could pull a trailer without the rear wheels on a FWD tow vehicle."). Can you put too much forward, ya that possible, and as far as my comment should be taken. In any case the tongue weight is getting distributed between the front wheels and the trailer wheels, with the difference taken off the rear tow vehicle axle.
Triva, I guess, but Oldsmobile had adds in the late 60's showing the rear wheels removed while towing with a WD hitch. I have personally lifted the tow vehicle wheels off the ground with a WD hitch. Interesting but not practical.
I'm pretty sure that a WD hitch won't help you if you have too much weight behind the trailer's axle as the WD hitch is a one-way device.
