[A/S] Re: New to the list

["laurencarus" <laurencarlson@xxxxxxxxxxx>]

Gerald:

Congractulation, sounds like you found a "winner". 
I am from the "flat land" to the east of Alberta, belong to the Wally 
Byam and Vintage Airstream Clubs and know quite a few of the Wally 
Byam members from Edmonton.

I have a 1959 -24' Tradewind International which is about 3800# dry 
weight empty.  Your dry weight is likely more like a maximum of 
5000#, but don't take a chance weigh it at your first opportunity.  
It is very easy to under estimate what the weight of every everything 
you put in the trailer is.  You can save travel weight by traveling 
with your fresh water tanks at minimum.

Hitches:
Stabalizer bars and equalizers are not the same thing.   Likely your 
trailer came with equalizers and not stabalizers.   You can have 
equalizers without stabalizers but not stabalizers without equalizers.

The make of the receiver has to be the same as the equalizer.  Reese 
is one of the most common, the bars are a spring steel and the ends 
are cast and held on by a small bolt.  There are several makes that 
use the round bar style of equalizers.
You should have a Class 4 hitch as the class 3 is only UP TO 5000#

Would appreciate a return email.

Lauren