Trailer sway control
Has anyone seen this yet? Pretty cool and I think it will help with some of the hard to balance trailers out there. Independent sway control
Forum Discussion
Terryallan wrote:I am still wayne_tw wrote:
. Another example is a semi truck and trailer or bus, especially those double decker "Megabus", passing at a high rate of speed. Of course, many defensive maneuvers to avoid a hazard in the lane of travel will induce sway. None of these examples have a thing to do with a "properly built and loaded" trailer.
Therefore, I discount the posters statement as inherently false.
Not so. A properly loaded, balanced trailer with a correctly adjusted WDH WILL not be bothered by a truck, bus, or anything else passing it. and in truth. Cross winds haven't ever scared me either.
Sorry Wayne, but Terry is 100% correct. I have designed and built a few trailers in my life.
My last one started life as a flat bed car trailer. It towed so easy I could fall asleep because towing it was so uneventful.
Fast forward a few years. I want an enclosed trailer because that is what all the cool teams had. So I put a box on my nice flatbed. First time I took it on the road un-loaded it was all over the place. What happened to my nice handling car trailer? :h Oh,forgot to tell you, I welded a big ol heavy door on the back that doubled as a ramp.
So now I had a trailer that I could not move the axels back and it towed like s%%^t. So I started to pile and build things up front like a work bench and stove and oven and a big ol heavy tool box.
Well guess what? After welding several hundred pounds of stuff up front the trailer is back to a great handling trailer. No sway at all.
BTW this is about the only forum on the net that almost insist in having sway control or you're a danger on the road. If you go to a race car forum or a horse forum or a farm forum you would get laughed at such a thought. Just saying. :B
BTW how many trailers have you designed and built?
