Good weight distribution set up

Camper76 wrote:
I'll be towing a Jayflight slx 294 qbsw. Dry hitch weight is 780, trailer dry is 6480, Gvw is 8250. I want something a little bigger just so I won't need to buy another one if we ever get bigger trailer.

Since you obviously have something now that you're using

1. What is it

2. Get to a set of scales and get some REAL NUMBERS and not those useless "DRY" ones you are now using.

3. Depending the min would be around 1200 with a probable end one in the 1500 range, but those are TOTAL GUESSES at this point. But what you now have is a fairly heavy trailer already so not sure how much heavier especially hitch wise you could get.

Larry

LarryJM wrote:

Camper76 wrote:
I'll be towing a Jayflight slx 294 qbsw. Dry hitch weight is 780, trailer dry is 6480, Gvw is 8250. I want something a little bigger just so I won't need to buy another one if we ever get bigger trailer.

Since you obviously have something now that you're using

1. What is it

2. Get to a set of scales and get some REAL NUMBERS and not those useless "DRY" ones you are now using.

3. Depending the min would be around 1200 with a probable end one in the 1500 range, but those are TOTAL GUESSES at this point. But what you now have is a fairly heavy trailer already so not sure how much heavier especially hitch wise you could get.

Larry

I have Reese with tounge weight of 1000lbs and 10000 gross. It has sway arm so I can't back up with it. Also I'm towing with ram 1500 hemi not sure if that helps

Camper76 wrote:

LarryJM wrote:

Camper76 wrote:
I'll be towing a Jayflight slx 294 qbsw. Dry hitch weight is 780, trailer dry is 6480, Gvw is 8250. I want something a little bigger just so I won't need to buy another one if we ever get bigger trailer.

Since you obviously have something now that you're using

1. What is it

2. Get to a set of scales and get some REAL NUMBERS and not those useless "DRY" ones you are now using.

3. Depending the min would be around 1200 with a probable end one in the 1500 range, but those are TOTAL GUESSES at this point. But what you now have is a fairly heavy trailer already so not sure how much heavier especially hitch wise you could get.

Larry

I have Reese with tounge weight of 1000lbs and 10000 gross. It has sway arm so I can't back up with it. Also I'm towing with ram 1500 hemi not sure if that helps

You also need to make sure you educate yourself since if that "sway arm" is the friction bar type you can in fact back up with it. You just have to be careful about making "EXTREME" turns and accelerating slowly when backing and I always loosened it if I was expecting to make many maneuvers backing into a site.

I have the 1200/12K Equal-i-zer for my 1K TW 32' 7500lb GVW trailer and am totally satisified with it, but that's behind a 9500lb 1T full sized Ford Van.

Larry

LarryJM wrote:

Camper76 wrote:

LarryJM wrote:

Camper76 wrote:
I'll be towing a Jayflight slx 294 qbsw. Dry hitch weight is 780, trailer dry is 6480, Gvw is 8250. I want something a little bigger just so I won't need to buy another one if we ever get bigger trailer.

Since you obviously have something now that you're using

1. What is it

2. Get to a set of scales and get some REAL NUMBERS and not those useless "DRY" ones you are now using.

3. Depending the min would be around 1200 with a probable end one in the 1500 range, but those are TOTAL GUESSES at this point. But what you now have is a fairly heavy trailer already so not sure how much heavier especially hitch wise you could get.

Larry

I have Reese with tounge weight of 1000lbs and 10000 gross. It has sway arm so I can't back up with it. Also I'm towing with ram 1500 hemi not sure if that helps

You also need to make sure you educate yourself since if that "sway arm" is the friction bar type you can in fact back up with it. You just have to be careful about making "EXTREME" turns and not accelerating slowly when backing and I always loosened it if I was expecting to make many maneuvers backing into a site.

I have the 1200/12K Equal-i-zer for my 1K TW 32' 7500lb GVW trailer and am totally satisified with it, but that's behind a 9500lb 1T full sized Ford Van.

Larry

Does it make a lot of noise. Cause the one I have is noise as hell

As stated above, your dry weights are useless. That 780 tongue weight will be closer to 880 before it leaves the dealer lot. Everything you put in your master bedroom and front storage area will add directly to the tongue weight.

I used to have a similar floor plan (different MFGR), with similar dry weights. Ready to go camping, my tongue weight was pushing 1100 lbs.

handye9 wrote:
As stated above, your dry weights are useless. That 780 tongue weight will be closer to 880 before it leaves the dealer lot. Everything you put in your master bedroom and front storage area will add directly to the tongue weight.

I used to have a similar floor plan (different MFGR), with similar dry weights. Ready to go camping, my tongue weight was pushing 1100 lbs.

It's one reason I want to go bigger them need

Camper76 wrote:
I'll be towing a Jayflight slx 294 qbsw. Dry hitch weight is 780, trailer dry is 6480, Gvw is 8250. I want something a little bigger just so I won't need to buy another one if we ever get bigger trailer.

I have Reese with tounge weight of 1000lbs and 10000 gross. It has sway arm so I can't back up with it. Also I'm towing with ram 1500 hemi not sure if that helps.

GVW of a bunk bed trailer this size, loaded and ready to camp, is sure to be awfully close to 8000 lbs with at least 1000+ lbs of gross tongue weight which is already too much for a stock Ram 1500 ... and you may want to later go even bigger?! :E

Regardless, one feature of the Blue Ox Sway Pro is that changing from weight class to another is as simple as swapping out the spring bars, all other parts remain the same.

You weigh the tongue, ready to travel, and get the correct bars.

When you get the new trailer, repeat the above.

Like others said, ignore the dry weight. I would recommend you assume the Gross weight, which in your case is 8250 lbs. So assume you will have a tongue weight of around 950-1,000 lbs.

The following hitches have big followings:

Equal-I-zer (can be noisy)
Blue Ox Pro
Reese Dual Cam

IMO, it's all good advice here .

I have towed a 37' TT using friction bars (2) on a 1200# trunnion Reese set up,towing with a 250 diesel. You need to have enough truck as a foundation that's stout enough to work off of.
If i ever do it over again (towing a 35' plus TT), i would investigate a WDH with built in sway, like the Eqaul-i-Zer 4 point , if its a little noisy , I'll deal with it . (picking any brand of full time WDH with built in sway control is personal choice, they all work well)