Hitch weight video

tron67j · Jan 27, 2021

Shared this on 4th gen, but also relevant here. Interesting how dry weight hitch measurements can be all over the place. RV Tongue Weight Challenge! How much weight do Tr…:

crash68 · Jan 27, 2021

The guy make the bad assumption that all of the cargo added to the trailer is going to be added to the tongue weight. You assload a trailer you start lightening the TW, as is the case with toy haulers.
He needs to go a little further into explanation of how the tongue weiy is affected by where the weight is placed within a trailer. Anyone that's loaded a farm tractor onto a car hauler trailer has adjusted the TW by repositioning the tractor, just make sure it's far enough forward.

dhay13 · Jan 27, 2021

crash68 said:
The guy make the bad assumption that all of the cargo added to the trailer is going to be added to the tongue weight. You assload a trailer you start lightening the TW, as is the case with toy haulers.
He needs to go a little further into explanation of how the tongue weiy is affected by where the weight is placed within a trailer. Anyone that's loaded a farm tractor onto a car hauler trailer has adjusted the TW by repositioning the tractor, just make sure it's far enough forward.

I caught that too. He had 600lbs of TW and said if you load 300lbs in the trailer you would be at 900. No, you will only add a % depending on how close to the axles it is

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