I've been wondering what the purpose of the tongue weight is. Obviously it needs to be heavy enough so that you can set it down on the ball and attach it but beyond just keeping the front of the trailer down what does it do.
I can under stand if you have a high center of gravity wanting some extra tongue weight to keep the tongue down during acceleration and going up hill but hopefully weight would be kept as low as possible to minimize these shifts.
It seems to me that extra tongue weight would make the trailer less prone to follow the TV in a turn. i.e. lower tongue weight would result in easier polar rotation of the trailer and less pushing out to the side on the TV in a turn.
I could see where moving the trailers wheels back would reduce the chance of fishtailing but wouldn't seem to be a real problem except in severe weather conditions.
From what I gathered on some other postings that a higher tongue weight allows for higher speed towing, what is the connection? Could the same result in simply lowering the center of mass of the trailer?
Anyone have any ideas, comments, or expert knowledge they can impart?