axle distance on a trailer?

[maplehillfrm]

hello all, I think this is in the correct forum, I am currently rebuilding atrailer, it was like 20 feet, I only needed a 12 - 14 foot trailer, it had a bent piece in the front so I cut it out and am now welding the tongue on the rear,, which puts the axle way back from where it is supposed to be, I am never going to put more tan my mower or my rhino on it so tongue weight shouldnt be a problem,,

but what would the correct location be for it in case it is wagging the dog when I test drive it,, the bed is about 14'.. overall is approx 16'.. I may cut it down to 12' bed, but not sure at this time,,figure on it being 16' total, thanks pat

[MrJimi]

60/40 is a good axle placement

[Tig]

With 60% of the trailer bed in front of the axle.

[mwb]

with your axle so far back you won't get any wag, just a really heavy tongue load. Might be fairly inexpensive to get new weld on brackets (spring) and abandon the old ones.

[Shmudda]

Originally Posted by mwb

with your axle so far back you won't get any wag, just a really heavy tongue load. Might be fairly inexpensive to get new weld on brackets (spring) and abandon the old ones.

Trust me....if you have to much tongue weight you will get the wag! You should have no more then 10% tongue weight for the total load consisting of trailer and what you are hauling. Basically, if your trailer with a load is 3000 lbs, then you should have about 300# MAX of tongue weight.

Craig

[tommu56]

I measured a bunch of "engineered" ones to figure the dimention they were between 50 to 60 % in front of axel (depended on ramps/tail gate and the flat beads were shorter and ramped ones were longer
I built 4 home made ones so far and I used 53% in front of the axe excluding the tung.

tommu

[Bird]

Originally Posted by Shmudda

Trust me....if you have to much tongue weight you will get the wag! You should have no more then 10% tongue weight for the total load consisting of trailer and what you are hauling. Basically, if your trailer with a load is 3000 lbs, then you should have about 300# MAX of tongue weight.

Craig

Craig, of course, it is possible to have too much tongue weight, but 10% should be the minimum rather than the maximum. Ideally, 10% to 15% tongue weight.

[Jimbrown]

I will bet you are not further back than this and i guarantee this thing pull great.
http://horsetrailerworld.com/sunsele....asp?ID=143823

[maplehillfrm]

here is what I have so far , I welded the tongue on and I measured the axle from the back of the trailer to the center point of the axle it was 3 1/2'



I am thinking approx 5 1/2' to the center point of the axle where I will relocate axle,, the bed is 13 feet,, and the overall lenght tongue to rear is 16'

[sound right??]

I picked up the axle relocating shacles and pins today, but it is raining so maybe tommorow I will do more. thanks pat

[aczlan]

Originally Posted by maplehillfrm

I am thinking approx 5 1/2' to the center point of the axle where I will relocate axle,, the bed is 13 feet,, and the overall lenght tongue to rear is 16' [sound right??]

looks right to me, 5.5' would leave you with about a 1/3-2/3 slpit in the overall length of the trailer, I dont think you want to be any farther forward than that.

Aaron Z