Rant - looking for a travel trailer
I wish some manufacturer made the trailer I was looking for. I have 4 children, and I use a SUV to carry the family. And from all the threads I constantly see here, and on other sites, I'm not the on...
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and, as is always the case, "we'll see" what the actual tongue weight comes in as. The scales will tell the truth.
And then we'll get folks who start in with this idea of "move a bunch of heavy junk to the back of the trailer" to make the tongue lighter. Which, in my opinion is making a bad situation ( undersized short WB tow vehicle ) worse by putting weight in the worst possible place.
There is a reason both of my horse trailers are built with the axles almost at the rear of the trailer. More tongue weight makes a safer towing better handling rig.
As for my own camper, the CAT scale tells me my 4000 pound funfinder has between 580 and 600 pounds tongue. Tows extremely well. "I like tongue weight".
Other folks will have differing opinions.
And then we'll get folks who start in with this idea of "move a bunch of heavy junk to the back of the trailer" to make the tongue lighter. Which, in my opinion is making a bad situation ( undersized short WB tow vehicle ) worse by putting weight in the worst possible place.
There is a reason both of my horse trailers are built with the axles almost at the rear of the trailer. More tongue weight makes a safer towing better handling rig.
As for my own camper, the CAT scale tells me my 4000 pound funfinder has between 580 and 600 pounds tongue. Tows extremely well. "I like tongue weight".
Other folks will have differing opinions.
