Anyone using the Weigh Safe Hitch?

Hi folks, sorry to revive an old thread. I came across this hitch yesterday and my first thought was "Hey, this is an incredibly helpful tool to have". The second was the question about accuracy. I'm sure this is a well-built product, I was wondering if anyone's actually compared this scale to a dedicated hitch scale?

FishOnOne wrote:
I decided to pull the trigger and ordered one with a 2.5" shaft. I'm interest in my tongue weight when I pull a utility trailer with a tractor/shredder.

Love the built-in scale, what I found out is I didn't have a good weight balance and that was causing trailering issues. I discovered backing the tractor/backhoe on the utility trailer allowed more weight on the truck and that fixed my trailing issues.

I decided to pull the trigger and ordered one with a 2.5" shaft. I'm interest in my tongue weight when I pull a utility trailer with a tractor/shredder.

Groover wrote:
It's hard to say what you did best, the truck, the hitch, the trailer, the offroad vehicle or the video. I recently bought a PJ trailer and it is definitely the best made trailer that I have ever owned. More people need to be aware of their hitch weight. A guy recently spun out on a dry, straight four lane road right by my house due to lack of hitch weight and the trailer going wild. He was lucky that nobody was hurt. The only catch to this is as choochooman pointed out so many of us with lesser trucks need a weight distributing hitch. I have been served reasonbly well by simply estimating how much the tow vehicle should drop with the required tongue weight and being sure that it does drop that much before tightening the equalizer bars. Oh, I too need to add a link to my safety chains, at least PJ makes it easy.

Agree whole-heartedly. I was surprised to find that I had a full 1,000 lbs on the ball as I had previously just tugged on the trailer tongue before and said, "Oh, that's probably 500 lbs." It's very cool not to have to guess. And yes, I really do like that trailer and am going to swap it for another one two feet longer. It's not long enough for both the side-by-sides at the same time. I have another shorter one and it has held up very well over 15 years of use.

It's hard to say what you did best, the truck, the hitch, the trailer, the offroad vehicle or the video. I recently bought a PJ trailer and it is definitely the best made trailer that I have ever owned. More people need to be aware of their hitch weight. A guy recently spun out on a dry, straight four lane road right by my house due to lack of hitch weight and the trailer going wild. He was lucky that nobody was hurt. The only catch to this is as choochooman pointed out so many of us with lesser trucks need a weight distributing hitch. I have been served reasonbly well by simply estimating how much the tow vehicle should drop with the required tongue weight and being sure that it does drop that much before tightening the equalizer bars. Oh, I too need to add a link to my safety chains, at least PJ makes it easy.

IdaD wrote:
Really cool hitch and video, and very nice truck too. You guys have way less snow than we do in the Boise area...I have to admit I'm a little jealous on that note.

Thanks. I love the snow until sometime in March. We had a couple of feet at one time but just went through a warm spell that about melted it all. I hope we're not through with the snow yet.

Really cool hitch and video, and very nice truck too. You guys have way less snow than we do in the Boise area...I have to admit I'm a little jealous on that note.

BenK wrote:
Wonder how long it is warranted for ?

Strain Gauges do NOT like being banged...like how that kid kicked the coupler
and then how it fell onto the ball

Ditto if it isn't a strain gauge, but mechanical (spring, lever arm, etc)

I've designed a strain gauge for a very high shock environment. We also use strain gauges for test instruments that have very high transient loads.

I talked to them when I ordered and they said that they have very little warranty activity and that they have honored all requests. The gauge is a hydraulic design and apparently it's very durable. I'm kind of geeked out by this because it's just so well done and I'll update as time goes on.

I bet it's hydraulic. The ball design looks like a jack piston.

:):)