Any Helsley Arrow Hitch users out there? Looking for some info to maybe help a friend. My friend has a Hensley Arrow hitch and has hitched up and unhitched many, many times. However, very often this can be very time consuming and frustrating. Here are a couple examples:
He pulled into a side-of-the-road pull-thru campsite. Due to the curve of the site and the length of his rig, along with tree locations, he could not get the tow vehicle straight on with the trailer. It was plenty straight for me to unhitch and hitch up with my old Reese Dual Cam or present Equalizer hitch. He was having trouble getting unhitched so he called Hensley Customer Service. They told him that at any angle if he got unhitched he likely would not get hitched back up.
At another campground he camped a few sites down from us. He got unhitched fine. However, to hitch back up he had to back the tow vehicle slightly downhill to the trailer. That put the long square bar on the tow vehicle at a downward angle to the long square Hensley receiver on the trailer side. At an angle to each other these two components were not going together!! Forty-five frustrating minutes later we finally got hitched and I couldn't tell you how we did it!
One Hensley Arrow owner online reported that he somehow lost his trailer brakes. In making a quick stop (not a real panic stop) the swinging head on the Hensley hitch swung to one side and the trailer then pushed the tow vehicle around into a jackknife. That's not good...what happens if the tow vehicle brakes stop a little better than the trailer brakes?
Anyone have any Hensley Arrow Hitch experience to share, particular in hitching up with the tow vehicle at a slight angle, side to side or up and down, to the trailer?
He pulled into a side-of-the-road pull-thru campsite. Due to the curve of the site and the length of his rig, along with tree locations, he could not get the tow vehicle straight on with the trailer. It was plenty straight for me to unhitch and hitch up with my old Reese Dual Cam or present Equalizer hitch. He was having trouble getting unhitched so he called Hensley Customer Service. They told him that at any angle if he got unhitched he likely would not get hitched back up.
At another campground he camped a few sites down from us. He got unhitched fine. However, to hitch back up he had to back the tow vehicle slightly downhill to the trailer. That put the long square bar on the tow vehicle at a downward angle to the long square Hensley receiver on the trailer side. At an angle to each other these two components were not going together!! Forty-five frustrating minutes later we finally got hitched and I couldn't tell you how we did it!
One Hensley Arrow owner online reported that he somehow lost his trailer brakes. In making a quick stop (not a real panic stop) the swinging head on the Hensley hitch swung to one side and the trailer then pushed the tow vehicle around into a jackknife. That's not good...what happens if the tow vehicle brakes stop a little better than the trailer brakes?
Anyone have any Hensley Arrow Hitch experience to share, particular in hitching up with the tow vehicle at a slight angle, side to side or up and down, to the trailer?