Weight distribution hitch

I've used them to haul my camper, but never with my utility trailer. There are times I know I've had more weight than my camper in the trailer. Does anyone here use distribution hitch for their wood hauling trailers?⁰

 

I do. I had a bouncy ride with my 10k trailer going over the Sagamore bridge from Cape Cod. Felt like the front end was going to come off of the ground on my 3/4 ton crew cab. So I bought this..

 

I use one with my car hauler trailer anytime I have about 2k pounds or more on it. Helps it handle better and keeps some weight off the vehicle.

 

No , I only have a small trailer.
But why not.

 

That bridge is super bouncy with a trailer!

 

Been over that bridge hundreds of times , at least you kept it off the foot high curbs they have.
How things on the Cape? Haven't been there in a year or so but due for a trip that way. Need some Captain Parkers Clam Chowder!

 

I bought mine from Harbor Freight. Probably same factory as the one you show. But I bought it like 14 years ago...long before the crazy inflation period we live in now. I think it was like $99 or so back then.

 

I just visit on occasion. Next planned visit is for a refreshing swim in Yarmouth on 1/1/23.

 

I bought mine 10 years ago for probably $250 or so.

 

Bass river?

 

Maybe it was $189 or $139? I don't think it was $200+ though?

 

Had a cottage in yarmouth for years when I was growing up.
I was wondering the same thing as Warner. Where you swimming.

Great place to visit , I have seen a lot of changes there over the past 50 years or so.

 

Yes. I believe that is the location.

 

It really depends on the trailer. We hauled logs for 11 years on our 16' flat equipment trailer. With the length and axle placement, it is easy to adjust tongue weight with log placement.
After we got the dump trailer in '18, things changed. Axles are at the back of the trailer. This load....
Did this to the truck, even with air bags
Bent the chassis. Got that straightened and reinforced.
Did my research, the Andersen Hitch had the best reviews, yes, it's $$$, but well with it. Easy to hookup and adjust
It is a distribution and anti-sway hitch together.
Andersen Mfg 3350 No Sway Weight...

 

So to load it you have to tighten the nuts by the red part? I'm kind of having trouble seeing how it will transfer the load...guess it does it by tension. It was a hard thing to think through in my head how a normal bar setup takes load off the vehicle.

 

The chains take place of the torsion bars on a regular type hitch. The chains are usually set before you load. They attach to a boomerang shaped wing on the bottom of the truck hitch.

 

That's what's hard for me to understand. A normal hitch has Ridgid bars that attach to it and based upon the pressure you load them it transfers the load from vehicle to trailer. With out the chain being Ridgid it is kind of mind confusing. But I guess you tighten the chain so much that it pulls them tight and transfers the load back to the trailer like a torsion bar kind of? Tighten a tortion bar and it lifts the front of said vehicle and also stiffens the ride.

 

That's to right thinking. The chains are set/ adjusted before you load. Just like a regular hitch. You hook trailer to ball, then jack tongue back up to hook bars or on this hitch, put plate with chains on stem at the bottom of the hitch. I need some better pics of it. I may try to do a video maybe Monday or Tuesday. Got to haul a load of wood.

 

I say a demo of one with solid bars the big problem is you can't back up with them on

 

Is this you can't or your not supposed too? I say this because I always back up with mine on.