TS21sso
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Was doing some surfing and discovered this Stinger Hitch that would replace a WDH. Has anyone seen one in use of know of anyone using one. The price for the 1000 lbs tongue weight one is pretty much in line with an Equalizer WDH. It wouldn't take any set up and hooking up would be faster. Although a perodic tire replacement would be necessary. Would like to hear some opinons.
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TS21sso wrote:Was doing some surfing and discovered this Stinger Hitch that would replace a WDH. Has anyone seen one in use of know of anyone using one. The price for the 1000 lbs tongue weight one is pretty much in line with an Equalizer WDH. It wouldn't take any set up and hooking up would be faster. Although a perodic tire replacement would be necessary. Would like to hear some opinons.
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this is for tongue-heavy loads, which hybrids are not. unless you have a front toy hauler platform on your hybrid.
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Chuck_S
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My Roo 23SS will easily push 800 pounds at the coupler and I use a 1000/10,000 pound Equalizer to distribute this weight.
This device looks interesting and appears to be plug-n-play. The spring on the extra axle is taking the coupler weight, not the truck bumper so there's really no weight to "distribute" it's all on the 900 pound rated tire. There's also no extra weight put onto the trailer axles.
The weight relief depends on that tire which I'm guessing is less reliable than the distribution bars on a WDH. That only makes a difference with indifferent maintenance of the tire.
Price is $150 or 33% more than a 1000 pound Equalizer.
If I could find a place to test drive this I'd be interested.
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Not as failsafe as a WDH. Looks like you would have to carry a spare tire for your hitch  For farm/agriculture and construction use it seems like a nice option, especially the dually model. Does not seem very practical for highway TT use unless your TV was very limited in TW capacity. If that’s the case you may be over your GVWR as well which this does nothing to increase. I can see where this would be very useful but not convinced for a TT.
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Look on the movie the long long trailer and you will see about the same thing on Ricky's car. for me I would be hard pressed to overload to the point of needing training wheels. but it just my opinion. good luck
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It's probably a good enough means of simply propping up an overloaded truck but does NOTHING to improve the ride, transfer any weight etc. I don't see it as a replacement for a weight distribution system but a way to get around needing one. Not nearly as good.
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Chuck_S
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This technology is mature and works.
There are similar bogies or dollies (that's a link to just one) sold to enable 5th wheel trailers to be towed without a device using up the while bed or by a large SUV.
The Stingerhitch is nothing more than a more compact version of these bogies.
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TS21sso
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One of the reasons that this peaked my interest was that my DD and DS both at times use our HTT. The problem being is that each of their TV's have a different hitch height than mine. So this means adjusting WDH whenever they use trailer. This unit just may be the solution to this problem. I would have the WDH set up for the primary TV and use this whenever the other TVs are used. Thanks for all the input. If I do choose to purchase one, I will report back on how is preforms.
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aepowell
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Chuck_S wrote:This technology is mature and works.
There are similar bogies or dollies (that's a link to just one) sold to enable 5th wheel trailers to be towed without a device using up the while bed or by a large SUV.
How would you back the trailer with this thing?
The Stingerhitch is nothing more than a more compact version of these bogies.
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Chuck_S
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According to the FAQs on the Stinger website you can back the trailer with it attached.
Not sure about the 5th wheel bogies, I've only paid cursory attention to them.
Note the weasel words on the Stinger website about this being a temporary solution. Towing a camper a dozen weekends a year is temporary compared to every day driving in my view, but I've no direct experience with the device.
-- Chuck
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