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i was always told to only have between 300 and 500 lbs on the tounge.
10-14% is the figure you should shoot for in towing a heavy trailer. Ask the RV trailering community, and you will quickly find out that those who know will keep to the high end of the range. If that trailer weighed #2000, and the car weighed #2500, that's #5500 in trailer weight. You would have needed #660 pounds of tongue weight ideally to have a safe following trailer. That's plenty of weight to sag a 1/2 ton truck without using a WD hitch. Trying to back the car up to lessen the tongue weight will only result in a wandering trailer, and potentially dangerous sway.
Best bet is always let the tongue get heavy, but use a WD hitch to keep the weight from squatting the rear and lifting the front. #660 pounds of tongue weight may sound like a lot, but a properly setup WD hitch will translate that into #150 of load for each of the truck's tires, and about #65 or so back on the trailer's axles. Much easier for the whole rig to handle the weight this way.
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