My dad thought he was a goner
My 72 YO dad, retired trucker, not afraid to tow anything, has a early to mid 2000 Cedar Creek, 26-28 ft long. When he bought it, he also got the "chain" type WDH. He has always hated it, doesn't elim...
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Tongue weight tongue weight tongue weight. I believe proper tongue weight is 90% of peoples problems with sway. Our last TT only weighed around 5500 pounds loaded and pulled with my Ford 150, but I could tell if we didn't load it properly. With the sway control about as tight as I could get it, we would still get sway at highway speeds if we didn't have anything piled on the couch (it was in the very front). Once I figured it out, the last few times I towed it, I didn't even mess with putting on the sway control. We just made sure that our suitcases, and outside chairs and stuff was on the couch. We also put out coolers all the way up front on the floor. That tool care of everything.
I pulled a 5 X 10 utility trailer with 3 ricks of firewood on it and 1 rick in the bed of the same truck. I got up to about 50 mph on the interstate, and thought we were going to die! I pulled over and loaded up the front of the trailer (it was a tilt trailer so it didn't have much tongue weight anyway) and went the rest of the way home without problem.
My point is, size and weight has little to do with it. It is about having enough tongue weight (I like more than normally required), to force the trailer to follow the truck instead of jerk it around.
Put a fridge, stove, or something like it on a 2 wheel dolly. Pull back on the dolly just enough for the load to be balanced, then take off running out the driveway and try to control it. Then, after you get the fridge back up on the dolly and got bandaids on your scratches, pull the dolly with a lot of weight on the handle and see how much better it is to control. Tongue weight is everything.
I pulled a 5 X 10 utility trailer with 3 ricks of firewood on it and 1 rick in the bed of the same truck. I got up to about 50 mph on the interstate, and thought we were going to die! I pulled over and loaded up the front of the trailer (it was a tilt trailer so it didn't have much tongue weight anyway) and went the rest of the way home without problem.
My point is, size and weight has little to do with it. It is about having enough tongue weight (I like more than normally required), to force the trailer to follow the truck instead of jerk it around.
Put a fridge, stove, or something like it on a 2 wheel dolly. Pull back on the dolly just enough for the load to be balanced, then take off running out the driveway and try to control it. Then, after you get the fridge back up on the dolly and got bandaids on your scratches, pull the dolly with a lot of weight on the handle and see how much better it is to control. Tongue weight is everything.
