I go with whatever way gets me 10-15% on the tongue, personally.
It’s a game of inches sometimes between looking up at the sky (with constant steering corrections) or having the death sway if the tongue is too light.
I’m using a hitch ball setup that has a scale built in it, and aim for about 10-15% of the total weight of the trailer itself (2500#) and contents (varies). Doing so makes it much easier to drive (safer too, obviously).
With a bad back, shoulders, and new knees, I’m personally a big fan of tilt trailers.
This is a 20’ 14K Aluminum Gravity Tilt:
If you go too short, you don’t have much wiggle room for positioning to get the tongue weight right.
So far, so good—haven’t popped a quick-release up since I added this, and I’ve been deep into quite a bit of brush many times since. That grapple does have a bit of a cage though, on its backside. Mostly I’m just trying to make the releases work a little harder at releasing themselves on their...
This really isn’t as bad as it seems-if it’s what we think, it’s an easy fix. And there are some very elegant ways posted to help prevent this, and others, not so elegant😁
Colt was always a firm believer in all applicable Gas laws, and easily expanded to fill the volume of his container.
Henry: Yeah whatever, not if I get here first.