What's wrong with too much tongue weight?
I understand that too little tongue weight will lead to sway and that the target is between 10-15%, but are there any consequences to having more than that? I don't have concerns with my payload or W...
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gmw photos wrote:
which is why horse/stock trailers pull so nicely. The axles are kicked much further back compared to a travel trailer
The difference with your picture, is
- The TT center of gravity is likely close to the center of the main box.
- The center of gravity on the horse trailer with a couple of horses in the trailer is probably 2/3 of the way back.
So to get similar tongue weights, you need to move the wheels back on the horse trailer.
In general terms as long as you stay within the weight limits, more weight on the tongue is better. As mentioned this is why 5th wheels with 20-25% pin weight tow so nicely and semis push that to around 50% with the wheels all the way to the back. Of course, this is balanced with 5th wheels and semis needing much beefier suspensions to pull the same size trailer.
But taken to an extreme, there may be parts that normally aren't considered that could fail. Say you got a big commercial truck and hitch that could handle a 2500lb tongue weight and then shifted everything forward in your trailer to make that happen...I would be worried that the A-frame may not have been designed to handle that kind of load.
