So yeah this is another WDH thread, but just a bit of how far behind in the technology we are.
Anyway if your interested you search on youtube for what available in yank land, a guy called wandering weekends I watched a couple of his vids one the 3 worst WDH's and 11 best.
Surprising the 3 worst I've never seen them advertised in Au, Husky and Blue Ox, again in his 11 best there are very few available in here, the best again not seen here are the weighsafe hitch with the inbuilt load cell, The EAZLift TR3 is similar to Fastway E2 avalable here and the Anderson made the 11.
A lot of the new style hitches have built in sway control because the chains are gone altogether, that seem to slow arriving here, the most popular WDH here is 1970's technology.
I'm considering buying a Fastway E2 WDH, to replace my aging Eazlift round bar hitch, and the reason behind that is we are about to start touring again, at least the next 3-6 months, rather than retro fit DSC unit, we will get our sway control from the WDH, and the reason for that very simple a standard WDH with add-on sway control it is you need to disable the sway control when reversing, which is not required with the Fastway.
-- Edited by Gundog on Sunday 22nd of October 2023 10:06:30 PM
Bobdown said
03:45 PM Oct 23, 2023
GD, you are opening yourself up to another lecture from the anti WDH preacher !!!
I think there is nothing wrong with putting a bit more weight back on the front wheels.
Headlights shine on the road not the sky.
Braking is a lot better.
Steering is better.
Tyres wear better.
And I'm not talking about an overloaded tug being made to do unnatural things, just a simple distribution of some weight.
Each to their own opinion.....eh?
Cheers Bob
yobarr said
07:04 PM Oct 23, 2023
Bobdown wrote:
GD, you are opening yourself up to another lecture from the anti WDH preacher !!!
I think there is nothing wrong with putting a bit more weight back on the front wheels.
Headlights shine on the road not the sky.
Braking is a lot better.
Steering is better.
Tyres wear better.
And I'm not talking about an overloaded tug being made to do unnatural things, just a simple distribution of some weight.
Each to their own opinion.....eh?
Cheers Bob
Hi Bob, whilst I'm not sure who you refer to as the "WDH preacher" , I for one simply couldn't be bothered getting involved here. Could I suggest that all delusional WDH faithful take 30 minutes to view the video posted by Tony and if they STILL can't understand what I've been saying for 5 years, then there is little hope..
A WDH DOES NOT ALTER TBW.
A WDH is only ever used by people trying to make car do things for which it never was designed. Sad,inconvenient truth.
Get a better car or a smaller van. Easy. Cheers
Bobdown said
09:30 PM Oct 23, 2023
Why did you feel the need to answer my post Yobarr? Not once did I mention TBW, but you still felt the need to preach that message again.
All I said was it is okay to add a bit more to the front end, nothing else.
Cant help yourself and thats why you come across as an angry little ant, beating on his soapbox until everyone agrees with you.
Sorry he exposed himself on your post Gundog.
yobarr said
10:04 PM Oct 23, 2023
Bobdown wrote:
Why did you feel the need to answer my post Yobarr? Not once did I mention TBW, but you still felt the need to preach that message again. All I said was it is okay to add a bit more to the front end, nothing else. Cant help yourself and thats why you come across as an angry little ant, beating on his soapbox until everyone agrees with you. Sorry he exposed himself on your post Gundog.
Just responded to your earlier post Bob, where the subject is WDH.
You no doubt understand that the so-called "need" for a WDH is directly related to TBW, which is the reason that I mentioned it.
Sorry if you believe that my contributions to the subject of WDHs cause me to "come across as an angry ant . " but if you care to take time to view, in its entirity, a video kindly posted by Tony (Eaglemax) you will see that it confirms everything that I have been saying for the last 5 years.
Once you've seen the video, and comprehended the supplied information, you may well understand that, in most/many cases, a WDH is not needed, and is a waste of money. Have a great evening. Cheers
Seems that a lot of the people can be fooled a lot of the time? Cheers
Gundog said
10:54 PM Oct 23, 2023
The one thing the self appointed anti wdh member couldn't help himself to swith the content to his negative opinions.
The origional post was about newer styles of distribution hitches and how a youtuber went about testing and comparing various hitches, today I watch another vid about the B&W Continuum WDH for 600 -1600lbs ball weight using a hydraulic ram (a picture was posted previously elsewhere on the forum).
Another move I see is many of the hitches are now going to 2 5/16th inch balls.
yobarr just put your guns back in their holsters and stop trying to shoot holes in others opinions, because its easy to counter your position with opinions from mr google.
Bobdown said
02:26 PM Oct 24, 2023
yobarr wrote:
Bobdown wrote:
Why did you feel the need to answer my post Yobarr? Not once did I mention TBW, but you still felt the need to preach that message again. All I said was it is okay to add a bit more to the front end, nothing else. Cant help yourself and thats why you come across as an angry little ant, beating on his soapbox until everyone agrees with you. Sorry he exposed himself on your post Gundog.
Just responded to your earlier post Bob, where the subject is WDH.
You no doubt understand that the so-called "need" for a WDH is directly related to TBW, which is the reason that I mentioned it.
Sorry if you believe that my contributions to the subject of WDHs cause me to "come across as an angry ant . " but if you care to take time to view, in its entirity, a video kindly posted by Tony (Eaglemax) you will see that it confirms everything that I have been saying for the last 5 years.
Once you've seen the video, and comprehended the supplied information, you may well understand that, in most/many cases, a WDH is not needed, and is a waste of money. Have a great evening. Cheers
Seems that a lot of the people can be fooled a lot of the time? Cheers
I watched that video until I glazed over, but it struck me that they are trying to cure things that we are not talking about.
One TBW was 374 kg, over the max of the the tug towball limit and another van was 200kg over its GTM.
Read my first post again, it's about a little distribution of weight and read the last line again Chris.
Sorry, you are not the preacher, you think you are God, nothing else matters.
So yeah this is another WDH thread, but just a bit of how far behind in the technology we are.
Anyway if your interested you search on youtube for what available in yank land, a guy called wandering weekends I watched a couple of his vids one the 3 worst WDH's and 11 best.
Surprising the 3 worst I've never seen them advertised in Au, Husky and Blue Ox, again in his 11 best there are very few available in here, the best again not seen here are the weighsafe hitch with the inbuilt load cell, The EAZLift TR3 is similar to Fastway E2 avalable here and the Anderson made the 11.
A lot of the new style hitches have built in sway control because the chains are gone altogether, that seem to slow arriving here, the most popular WDH here is 1970's technology.
I'm considering buying a Fastway E2 WDH, to replace my aging Eazlift round bar hitch, and the reason behind that is we are about to start touring again, at least the next 3-6 months, rather than retro fit DSC unit, we will get our sway control from the WDH, and the reason for that very simple a standard WDH with add-on sway control it is you need to disable the sway control when reversing, which is not required with the Fastway.
-- Edited by Gundog on Sunday 22nd of October 2023 10:06:30 PM
GD, you are opening yourself up to another lecture from the anti WDH preacher !!!
I think there is nothing wrong with putting a bit more weight back on the front wheels.
And I'm not talking about an overloaded tug being made to do unnatural things, just a simple distribution of some weight.
Each to their own opinion.....eh?
Cheers Bob
Hi Bob, whilst I'm not sure who you refer to as the "WDH preacher" , I for one simply couldn't be bothered getting involved here. Could I suggest that all delusional WDH faithful take 30 minutes to view the video posted by Tony and if they STILL can't understand what I've been saying for 5 years, then there is little hope..
A WDH DOES NOT ALTER TBW.
A WDH is only ever used by people trying to make car do things for which it never was designed. Sad,inconvenient truth.
Get a better car or a smaller van. Easy. Cheers
Just responded to your earlier post Bob, where the subject is WDH.
You no doubt understand that the so-called "need" for a WDH is directly related to TBW, which is the reason that I mentioned it.
Sorry if you believe that my contributions to the subject of WDHs cause me to "come across as an angry ant . " but if you care to take time to view, in its entirity, a video kindly posted by Tony (Eaglemax) you will see that it confirms everything that I have been saying for the last 5 years.
Once you've seen the video, and comprehended the supplied information, you may well understand that, in most/many cases, a WDH is not needed, and is a waste of money. Have a great evening. Cheers
Seems that a lot of the people can be fooled a lot of the time? Cheers
The one thing the self appointed anti wdh member couldn't help himself to swith the content to his negative opinions.
The origional post was about newer styles of distribution hitches and how a youtuber went about testing and comparing various hitches, today I watch another vid about the B&W Continuum WDH for 600 -1600lbs ball weight using a hydraulic ram (a picture was posted previously elsewhere on the forum).
Another move I see is many of the hitches are now going to 2 5/16th inch balls.
yobarr just put your guns back in their holsters and stop trying to shoot holes in others opinions, because its easy to counter your position with opinions from mr google.
I watched that video until I glazed over, but it struck me that they are trying to cure things that we are not talking about.
One TBW was 374 kg, over the max of the the tug towball limit and another van was 200kg over its GTM.
Read my first post again, it's about a little distribution of weight and read the last line again Chris.
Sorry, you are not the preacher, you think you are God, nothing else matters.