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Trailer loading and tongue weight
Came across this video on the book of faces today and felt it was worth sharing. It shows just how critical tongue weight and loading can be with a trailer. Yes I know it's a model mustang, but it does demonstrate what a small change in center of gravity can do for overall stability, handling, and control can happen. And I've personnally experienced this with our 1st travel trailer. It was tongue light from the factory because they put the axles basically dead center of the trailer. I put a rack on the back of it to carry my generator as there wasn't enough room on the front to put it there. Needless to say there was alot of white knuckle experiences with it, and the person I sold it to ended up wrecking it because he put to much eeight on it trying to reduce the tongue load on his expedition, and lost control of it in the mountains.
https://www.youtube.com/shared?ci=EsrKSOdD3gY
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10-05-2016, 05:40 AM
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Great post
This youtube video cleared up a lot of cob webs in my head. What percentage of total trailer and boat weight should the tongue weight be? Anybody?
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10-05-2016, 07:28 AM
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Without going back to look it up I believe it's 10-15%?
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10-05-2016, 11:25 AM
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10% is the accepted minumum, and I believe you don't want to go past 20% as it can cause other handling issues.
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10-06-2016, 08:37 AM
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Whjen going camping with my 30' we always loaded it up with stuff inside in the front to add weight to the tounge to avoid this, it always worked for me!!
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10-06-2016, 01:44 PM
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Without going into the physics of why, 10 - 15% of the trailer weight with the boat and a normal load is the proper amount. Like RWilson2526 said. Too much is just as bad as too little. Too little causes trailer sway at speed (We've all seen it on other peoples trailers as the go down the road) and too much will put so much weight on the rear that your front steering and braking will be effected. Great vid Ferm!
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