corneileous
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- 2018 Ram 1500 Limited 4X4
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To be honest with you I would do the 5in. The trailer doesn’t necessarily have to be perfectly level it just needs to be close and you want it to sit a little higher in the front when empty so when it’s loaded it’s level. So for example my 20ft Equipment trailer hooked to my half ton with the tongue of the trailer sitting about 3in higher then level when I put the Tractor on it with the front loader and attachments it sits perfectly level. Trailer weight is around 12200lbs loaded and 3600lbs empty
Yeah, that’s kinda what I’m starting to think too, is that anything over 6 inches in drop is just probably too much. And after the other day when I went to a local store that sells these hitches, I’m thinking that maybe even the 5” B&W might even be a little too much. The salesman took me outside to show me his hitch which was the 3” drop, that he was using with his fairly heavy duty flat-bottom car hauler behind a lifted, older model Ford 3/4ton. He only had it set in the 2, 2.5 drop position and his trailer was sitting with a slight upward raise in the front. However, I didn’t put a tape on his hitch to compare the height to my truck tho so, I don’t know what it would take to make his trailer ride level behind my truck.
Also, it seems like everywhere I go online or whatever trailer hitch/trailer towing, or hitch-deciding video I watch, it seems like standard coupler height is between 15 to 18 inches so if that’s the case, with my hitch being 20 inches to the top of the receiver tube and depending on what trailer it is that I may hook up to in the future, about 4 to 5 inches of drop is probably all I’m ever going to need to make most of what’s out there ride level, or close to it behind my truck.
After seeing that B & W hitch at that store the other day, I will say that I liked it and I liked how it really looked like it was made well and it looked like it was designed to last l for a good long time even with heavy use. The weld where the receiver tube was welded to the shank looked nice and sturdy. I just don’t know how well that black powder coat finish would hold up, especially if I stored the hitch the way it was meant to be stored in the receiver hitch all the time, and if I’d be better off with the chrome one or not.
If I went with any of the aluminum receiver hitches, I’m almost pretty certain I could probably survive with one of those that just has the 4-inch drop but, I just don’t know how well those aluminum ones would hold up being stored in the receiver tube. But at least one thing about it though, if I went with an aluminum hitch, I wouldn’t have to really worry about storing it in the receiver tube because each one of those aluminum hitches I looked at, the ball mount is made to easily be removed from the rest of the hitch. Storing a hitch like that in two different pieces in a container in the bed under a locked tonneau cover would be a lot easier to do than how much more work it would be to separate the ball mount on the B&W from the rest of the hitch. It’s almost like with that one, that you’d really need to store it in the hitch rather than take it apart and store it in the bed of the truck like you would one of those aluminum ones.
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