WD hitch experiences here please

Looking to pick up a 6.5x16' trailer in the next year or so, gross trailer weight around 1800#, one cord of green firewood is 3900#, I'll be at 5700#, way up into WD hitch land.

Won't need sway control necessarily for a 16" tall load, but I might maybe someday tow something with some height to it. And I live in Alaska, so shipping is going to hurt.

I don't have to have the "best" all around WD hitch, but by the time I pay shipping to Alaska I by golly want to never have to buy another one, so sway control too.

If money was no object what 2 or 3 WD hitches with dual cam sway control would you like to pick from? I am looking at Blue Ox pretty hard...

If money is an object, what WD hitch at what price point have you had a good experience using?

Thanks.

 

I'm using the equalizer 4 point friction hitch. My trailer weighs 3870 dry and this truck has no problem pulling it. Transmission temps hover around 163f. This hitch stops the swaying before it gets started.

 

Equalizer. My only complaint is it could be a little noisy. Completely normal though. It's not that bad really.

 

Many WD hitches have sway bars built in. Be careful of your green cord weight though many woods can exceed 4,000# and it hard to judge when your tossing it in. Dual axle trailer? Hope so they handle a lot better freighted.

 

Appreciate that for folks with access to those magnificent east coast hardwoods. Local to me the heavy stuff is green sap up birch at +/- 3912# per cord. Red Oak at 4886# per green cord would probably not be a good idea with a Tacoma and a suitable trailer. Hickory at 5107# per green cord, also probably not a good idea.

Loading 16" rounds standing on end a 6.5x16' trailer gives me 104sqft of 'end', 96sqft would be one cord. What I have found with birch is that rounds up over 8" diameter or so take up about the same space stacked after splitting as they do as neatly arranged rounds on a trailer floor or other flat surface. Interestingly, smaller diameter rounds, say 5" diameter and under take up about 10% less space neatly stacked after splitting as they did neatly stacked before splitting....

http://www.hearth.com/talk/threads/cross-sectional-area-experiment.136945/

Anyway, dual axle for sure, I am looking at 16 foot trailers like this one on CL, don't really 'need' one for about a year... http://bigtextrailers.com/70tv-tandem-axle-vanguard/

To me as an occasional seller of cordwood I can make one trip, the customer can measure all the pieces I am selling neatly laid on end in the trailer floor, win- win.

I'll go see what WD hitches my local boutique dealer has to offer.

 

Here's what I use:

http://www.etrailer.com/p-RP66153.html
http://www.etrailer.com/p-RP63971.html

Had to use the long drop shank to get the WD hitch in the correct position for my trailer.