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Thats a good point. These hitches sell themselves for vastly improving typical tow driving conditions. Where they shine, but hopefully we never find out, is during an unplanned or emergency manuever.
I have been using the ProPride since 2018 with our Jayco Jay Feather 29QB. It’s 35’ bumper to tongue and GVWR of 7500 lb. Being mechanical engineer and having had a previous trailer with the equalizer 2 friction bar setup and still dealing with being “pushed” by every box truck and semi that passed and not feeling safe above 65mph, I absolutely love my 3P hitch and will
never tow a large travel trailer without it.
the factors for me are safety and security. We use our travel trailer as our primary means of family vacation for myself, my wife and our 4 kids. The peace of mind that comes from using the 3P hitch was worth the price (at least when I bought mine new in 2018). That being said if you’ve ever had a bad sway experience or seen those that have, what price can you out on the risk of a bad sway experience ending in catastrophe.
as other have said, is it necessary, no, but for me is it worth it, yes. Each person has to weight their own pros/cons, but for me it’s the only sway elimination hitch due to the physics of the system and the only safe hitch for hauling my family around on vacation! The other amazing part is their customer service and made in USA product!
that’s my $0.02
It seems to have a good following of satisfied users. It's not out of the question for me to purchase, but as I learned they misstated the provided hitch, which will probably do fine for the trip home. It will also give me an idea if something better is needed based on it's performance. Since it's really a copy of my Husky center line TS, and being used on the same tow vehicle just with a bigger camper I should notice if it's performing as expected.
I'm scrambling now to obtain a proper length drop shank that I can swap on t either hitch. I never realized how high my current camper is at it's stock height, and how low the Airstream is. Although the Airstream will be receiving a 3" lift once here as many have installed for better ground clearance.
Thats a good point. These hitches sell themselves for vastly improving typical tow driving conditions. Where they shine, but hopefully we never find out, is during an unplanned or emergency manuever.
Towing Too Fast in high Winds is down right stupid.
Same goes for traveling along any highway, at the higher Posted Speeds.
I can't afford the ProPride to use maybe once every couple of years, I am 82 now, and no kids, except for my daughter at 52 who goes with me, when I do tow.
We just set the CC at 58-62 mph and let the world go by.
Even on the last trip coming home from Colorado, we turned south in Kansas to Enid, OK.
by the time we made Enid, OK we decided that the 50 mph "reported winds" is enough, we parked the rig at 1 pm and stayed overnight...
the tow truck was the '02 Suburban with Coil Spring all around, not a good choice, but all we had.... Equalizer and double Sway Bars kept it under control, even when the Semi trucks passed us....
But, when I saw a Semi, I slowed down to 50 or less....
Well, while I appreciate your comments, they're not helpful to me on this topic, I'm sorry.
I'm well aware that the hitch is pretty darn expensive, but the travel trailer is considerably more. It's longer than I have ever towed, is twice the weight, and damage repairs to the skin are through the roof. With that said, the ProPride has a specific design to combat sway, keeping a sway event from traveling through the ball and to the tow vehicle thus causing driver correction leading to a chain reaction of excess sway. As the video below demonstrates. On my current travel trailer setup, I would never think of using this hitch, my Husky seems to be working. I have never had even the slightest sway issue, or ever felt out of control al a reasonable range of speeds. When I tow, I do like to stay with the flow of traffic up to the speed limit, or about 5 above depending on traffic density. My driving attitude definitely changes when I'm towing.
Just back from a 36 hour double red eye 1800 miles, with no more that a few hours of sleep. 8PM Thursday till 8AM this morning. There were absolutely no issues with the supplied Fastway e2 hitch that came with the purchase. The drop hitch I bought was just enough for the camper to be level, I do have a tiny bit of squat from the X, but not enough that I'm changing a thing, the Airstream will be getting a 3" lift kit anyway. I need to adjust the sway bar tension and that's it. Semi's passed me and boxed me in throughout the trip, and the camper never changed it's attitude. So as far as I can see, I will not need the Pro Pride set up.
I have been towing with a ProPride since 2010, I am truly sold on the hitch. I have towed in Mid West winds, snow storms in the high Rockies, mountain roads, coast to coast and back, one handed easy trips at 70 MPH.
The ProPride is a little tricky to hook up and get set but once you do it a few times and get a pattern it can go easily.
Why did I get a ProPride? In 2010 I was towing my car hauler on I-40 in Tennessee and the sway from the trucks was awful, Yes, it may have been a setup issue but we decided to get the ProPride and later transferred it to out Travel Trailer, NO SWAY! We then bought a 36' trailer, transferred it again and again, no sway! The Excursion handles the camper like a dream. Now when I tow another trailer I have to remind myself, no ProPride.
I have been towing with a ProPride since 2010, I am truly sold on the hitch. I have towed in Mid West winds, snow storms in the high Rockies, mountain roads, coast to coast and back, one handed easy trips at 70 MPH.
The ProPride is a little tricky to hook up and get set but once you do it a few times and get a pattern it can go easily.
Why did I get a ProPride? In 2010 I was towing my car hauler on I-40 in Tennessee and the sway from the trucks was awful, Yes, it may have been a setup issue but we decided to get the ProPride and later transferred it to out Travel Trailer, NO SWAY! We then bought a 36' trailer, transferred it again and again, no sway! The Excursion handles the camper like a dream. Now when I tow another trailer I have to remind myself, no ProPride.
I am a believer in the technology.
I do believe it serves a purpose that it was made to serve. At the moment, I feel comfortable with the Fastway that came with my sale. I had zero issues the 11 hours home.
I have had a crazy idea that makes sense to me.... What about a rollback as a travel trailer tow vehicle and the car or truck goes on the bed?
Lets say you go to a National Park and you want to go 4 wheeling, a dually of F250 is not as fun as a Jeep or older truck, that way your 4 wheeler is not doing tow duty and if it breaks you can haul it home.
You travel to a city and stay in a campground, you can take your car on the rollback and use it in parking decks etc and not your truck.
Take a car to a car show, it rides on the roll back and you stay at the campground.
I have had a crazy idea that makes sense to me.... What about a rollback as a travel trailer tow vehicle and the car or truck goes on the bed?
Lets say you go to a National Park and you want to go 4 wheeling, a dually of F250 is not as fun as a Jeep or older truck, that way your 4 wheeler is not doing tow duty and if it breaks you can haul it home.
You travel to a city and stay in a campground, you can take your car on the rollback and use it in parking decks etc and not your truck.
Take a car to a car show, it rides on the roll back and you stay at the campground.
Thoughts?
Didn't Finnegan do something like this with the roadkill ramp truck?
I think that is a good idea, IF, you already have a Rollback truck.
you can probably find a good one FB Marketplace also.
it will definitely handle just about any TT.
I was returning home from Utah with 8000# of dump trailer, and the water pump seized up, end of trip.... called for a Roll back, he winched the Excursion up on the rollback deck, and the fancy gadget that sticks out behind the truck, had a 2-5/16th ball on it already.
the trailer hooked up just fine, and his 7-pin light socket worked perfect.
this is the setup that got split up to ride 250 miles home on a rollback.
1999 International, gosh, is that a 444i powerstroke?
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No rust, engine is good, putting in a new transmission
Made a short 3 1/2 hour trip to a campground in Eastern NC, the EX and camper did great, 1/2 a tank and no issues. After long cross country runs we consider these trips short. Hopefully the trip home will also be uneventful.
Just the wife and I and 2 dogs spending the 4th together, we needed some time to get away. Wife has gone from part time to full time so our getaway time is limited, hopefully retirement in 5 years, at that time we will be looking at replacing the camper and primary tow vehicle duty.
Made a short 3 1/2 hour trip to a campground in Eastern NC, the EX and camper did great, 1/2 a tank and no issues. After long cross country runs we consider these trips short. Hopefully the trip home will also be uneventful.
Just the wife and I and 2 dogs spending the 4th together, we needed some time to get away. Wife has gone from part time to full time so our getaway time is limited, hopefully retirement in 5 years, at that time we will be looking at replacing the camper and primary tow vehicle duty.
I hope your retirement plans work out, ours have and the difference between racing around destinations with limited vacation time vs slowing down to explore more on trips is just plain awesome! Last Autumn we took the new camper on a 72 day trip with another couple and their fiver out to CA to see the Sequoias, we took in a total of 17 National Parks, Forests and Monuments on that adventure taking several days to explore many of them. Currently planning a Yellowstone trip with another couple and their TT for next Summer/Autumn, our travel map only needs ND, MT, IA, OR and WA to complete the 48 and plan to get them on that trip. We have had our fiver for a full year now and have logged 12,200 miles on it so far.
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