It's all about ball weight, not enough weight on your balls , you are screwed.
Too much weight on your balls your screwed again.
Get your ball weight balanced and avoid problems.
73
Jeff
Yes, and no. There’s more to it than presented here IF one wants a stable towing combination.
“Balance” is wrong concept to use.
All trailers WILL sway. Only a matter of speed, at the end. 50-mph or 125-mph.
The American method of using a weight-djstribution hitch isn’t used elsewhere or isn’t allowed. Here, it’s restoring front tow axle weight to solo value after being hitched (10-15% of trailer tongue weight verified).
90% of Americans get it wrong even though it’s easy to analyze & correct.
1). Trailer dead level
2) Three passes across scale
3). Tongue weight distributed roughly 1/3-1/3-1/3 is how it was done since 1960s.
-Pickup truck only gets worse as tow vehicle as suspension gets heavier.
RV forums are notoriously bad with wrong information. Or the new guys with their 15/years.
Right trailer design and right tow vehicle design is most of it.
That excludes every square box on leaf springs and every pickup truck.
The
hitch rigging is one-third the equation and equal in value to trailer or tow vehicle.
Get it right.