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    Posted: 14 Apr 2014 at 11:35pm
got the 600lbs rated one. 
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Direct Link To This Post Posted: 15 Apr 2014 at 12:49am
E2 600/6000...
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Direct Link To This Post Posted: 15 Apr 2014 at 12:54am
I got the 400/4000# Equal-i-zer because I will never buy another RV.
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Direct Link To This Post Posted: 15 Apr 2014 at 7:52am
I hope not marwayne, you would lose 500 man-hours worth of mods!
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Direct Link To This Post Posted: 15 Apr 2014 at 8:16am
I was looking at the 400/4000 but they didn't have it in stock and I was there. So the 600/6000 was the next choice Tongue
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Direct Link To This Post Posted: 15 Apr 2014 at 12:22pm
We went with the 500/5000 Blue Ox per the dealers recommendation.
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Direct Link To This Post Posted: 16 Apr 2014 at 9:19am
Originally posted by Hairy Podders

We went with the 500/5000 Blue Ox per the dealers recommendation.
Blue OX has a good reputation in WDHs
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Direct Link To This Post Posted: 16 Apr 2014 at 3:01pm
Originally posted by marwayne

I got the 400/4000# Equal-i-zer because I will never buy another RV.
marwayne you don't need to buy another RV you could build your own.Smile
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Direct Link To This Post Posted: 01 May 2014 at 8:03pm
I'm always puzzled by the recommendations of a sway bar no matter what.
I currently have in my yard 8 trailers, I kid you not.  I have owned probably 20 or more in my life and have NEVER had sway with a properly loaded trailer.  Period.
The only time I had bad sway problems was with my 10,000 lb capacity dump trailer.   Picked up a load of crushed stone and the loader operator dropped it a little too far back.   A 10,000 lb load of crushed stone isn't a very big pile, a full load to the brim in the trailer, 12x6x2 would far overload it.
 Stopped at the nearest hardware store, bought a shovel and spent a very unpleasant half hour in summer heat shoveling stone forward.  Sway gone.
That rig weighs in at 23,100 lbs leaving the quarry, 10,000 is the truck the dump trailer is 3100 and the load 10,000.
Even a 10,000 lb truck does not stop sway, proper loading does.
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Direct Link To This Post Posted: 01 May 2014 at 8:45pm
Originally posted by Budward

 
 Stopped at the nearest hardware store, bought a shovel and spent a very unpleasant half hour in summer heat shoveling stone forward.  Sway gone.
I'll remember to bring a shovel to move the gravel in my R-Pod.  Then I can throw the shovel at the strong gusting side winds to stop the sway.
Since the side walls of the trailer act as a sail, I'll keep with a my E2.
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