Thread: Anyone use an Anderson Weight Distribution Hitch

Originally Posted by Tombie

Good videos. And the 2nd one is very clever in design. Well suited to a coil sprung vehicle.

The issue in the LR designed vehicles is the "towing" persons obsession with the concept of load levelling devices.

No one thinks twice of packing 500kg of concrete bags in the boot and driving home. All the weight is till behind the rear axle line.

Your bags of cement are't swinging on a pivot way out at towbar level. The DIII and D4 are quite ok with the axle close'ish to the back of the bodywork. As the towed loads drops through dips etc... you might go from 600kg downforce to minus 50kg ... The leverage effect is massive when downforce is placed on a towbar placed wwwwaaaaayyyyy behind the rear axle too. I just look at some of the twin cabs used for towing these days.... and they simply look unsuited for towing. The towbar is far to far back from the rear axle. The leverage effect lifting the front axle if 350kg is placed on the towbar is crazyness.



there would be 2 metres of leverage effect with some .... and they wonder why the chassis breaks.

At the other extreme .. is the car I've used for towing anything I can swing from a towbar for the last 20years



hydraulic citroen .... they look so weird and ugly because the wheels are in each corner. The towbar is almost over right over the rear axle, so there is no lever effect (they cars have won the european towcar of the year awards for decades .. until the "SUV" fad in recent times).

Let's take 3 different LR for instance...All can tow 3,500kg

Defender 90
Discovery 4
Range Rover Sport

Wheel bases and weights of tow vehicles should be a primary consideration when purchasing a tow vehicle - not just "which one is the prettiest"

If one has a 3,500kg & 6mtr+ home on wheels it comes to be logical that the longer wheel base, wider stance and extra weight of the D4 will result in a much more suitable and stable tow vehicle than using the equally rated Defender 90.

I thought you would like this ... This is the caravan my brother just purchased. He sent me the piccies of his new caravan ... and I obviously wanted to know if it came with the tow vehicle. It's apparently done over 300,000miles towing these sorts of loads... Imagine towing these sorts of loads with a 90" wheelbase on snowy and icy roads The guys also own a new defender, but don't like it as much as this older one ... so they continue to use it.

Would you belt down the motorways in the UK towing with that at 70mph ?? Nope? I sure as hell wouldn't either

seeya,
Shane L.

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there would be 2 metres of leverage effect with some .... and they wonder why the chassis breaks.

Mate just finished a trip on the Simpson with his twin cab 4 yr old ranger and ended like the above , broken chassis and had to get it welded up at Birdsville I think , any way guy that did the job said that the tray was to long for the vehicle (as supplied by the new car dealer) and placing to much weight to far back on the chassis .

I thought that 4WD just had a small tilt-tray