Thanks. As usual, everyone on here is MORE than nice and informative. Been a member of countless other forums, non rv, and don't think I have EVER run across such a friendly site in my entire life. You all rock!!!
They all come with a 2 1/2 receiver and truth be told, being an owner of a smal fleet of silverado 2500 4x4, dont even know myself if they are class 3 or 4. Never paid attention. Just hooked up trailers and heavy equipment and took off. Guess I should know. Always assumed if they came from the factory with stated towing capacities of 12,000 pounds that the hitch could handle 1000 pounds,
But, i have to say I was shocked when I asked him what the tongue weight was and he said 860 pounds. That seemed like a heck of a lot to me seeing its a double axle trailer and had me questioning if my hitch was a 500 pound tongue weight myself.
Thought the axles took the brunt of the weight and then it occured to me simple math. As with any trailer, it needs be loaded 60% front of axle and at 8600 pounds, 10% of that wold be tongue weight.
Still, here's MY question? 60% front of axle has ALWAYS stopped sway for me, so never did understand the need for WDH for staters. Maybe as a contractor, TT's are different than trailer and backhoes and things like that?
Anytime I see sway its cause someone just doesn't know the proper way to load a trailer and had too much weight behind the axles? So if sway is caused by incorrect loading and correct loading is done, why bother? Maybe because a backhoe isn't a hollow box being blown by side winds???
