Weight distributing hitch math?
If I understand the numbers correctly, a WD hitch transfers about 25% of the ball weight back onto the TT axels and divides the remaining 75% more evenly between the front and rear axles of the TV. ...
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Francesca Knowles wrote:
I understood that tongue weight remains the same- was just asking if that (original) number is the one you refer to in your statement re. pounds of force (below).Ron Gratz wrote:
The second bar also will exert the same force on its A-frame. Total downward force on the "tongue" will be approximately twice the tongue weight.
"Tongue weight" is the tongue weight of the loaded trailer.
There are two WD bars. Each bar exerts a force approximately equal to the tongue weight.
Assuming the "tongue" is comprised of two beams (forming an A-frame) ,
one WD bar exerts a downward force on the left side of the A-frame,
and the other bar exerts a downward force on the right side of the A-frame.
Ron
