weight distribution - too tight?
I recently watched a youtube video on Reese weight distribution bar set up. In the video they instructed to bring the hook level with the ground and hook to hook up the chain. I was taught to bring ...
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Is some of this the old hand crank vs electric front jack?
- With a hand crank jack, it takes a lot of effort to drop and raise the front of the trailer. As a kid, we had a short piece of pipe that was always on the A-frame. One of use would use the pipe to lever the attachment into place while the other would crank. As soon as it was cranked enough that you could lever it in place with a fair amount of effort, you pinned it and did the other side. Then you could retract the jack. If you were doing it by yourself, you would crank for a bit, try it, crank for a bit, try it...etc...
- With electric, it's easy to just take it a bit further so it doesn't take much effort to lever it into place.
As long as you are connecting to the same link, the end effect should be unchanged.
- With a hand crank jack, it takes a lot of effort to drop and raise the front of the trailer. As a kid, we had a short piece of pipe that was always on the A-frame. One of use would use the pipe to lever the attachment into place while the other would crank. As soon as it was cranked enough that you could lever it in place with a fair amount of effort, you pinned it and did the other side. Then you could retract the jack. If you were doing it by yourself, you would crank for a bit, try it, crank for a bit, try it...etc...
- With electric, it's easy to just take it a bit further so it doesn't take much effort to lever it into place.
As long as you are connecting to the same link, the end effect should be unchanged.
