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Originally Posted by RogerR
Anderson is lightest by far!
Sway control is based on tongue weight, no adjustments!
BUT if the little difference is really important maybe you need to buy a bigger tow vehicle or go with a lighter trailer.
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It's not really that little:
Here's the math for the tongue weights:
Trailer per spec = 685 lbs (TT spec weight is 6040)
15% of the additional "as built" weight on the door sticker = 35
Full propane = 50 lbs
Battery and box = 55 lbs
Lippert bike rack = 25 lbs
Bikes = 60 lbs
Additional for going to 2 6 v = +72 lbs
Equal-i-zer = 117 lbs
Net 1099
Receiver max is 1150, so that leaves 51 lbs, or 340 (15%) to 420 (12%) I can load into the trailer. Not much, especially if I need a little water/gray/black in the tanks. Saving 57 lbs on the hitch gets me about another 400 lbs I can load into the trailer. Sure, none of the above is directly on the ball, but none of it is very far back, so the effective weight reduction for that is only about 20 lbs (I did the math). More of a safety fudge factor than something useable.
And mathematically, it looks like the loaded trailer will produce a tongue weight of 16.5%, which is a little too heavy in the front. Saving the 57 lbs gets me back to 15%.
Trailer GVW is 7,500, truck can pull 11,100, and truck will have a left over payload of more than 1,000 after the above tongue weights - so all is good there.
With too much on the tongue, I'm giving up a lot of payload in the TT.
There are other options, of course - give up the dual batteries, look at putting a receiver and rack on the back, etc., etc.
Oh, and I did look at putting a class 5 on - not really practical, since the factory receiver is part of the Ford bumper system.