cowboydoc
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<font color="green">Where you would find what wieght the axle for a truck is made for I do not know.
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Just look at your overload springs. If you are hitting the overload springs you should back off. It's not necessarily how much you pull that matters but rather where your weight is distributed. On our hay trailers I'm usually pulling 30k plus but only have 2200 lbs. on the pin. I've still got plenty of travel here to my overload springs. You can pull 15k and have 4k of pin weight if you don't have things distributed right. There are certainly alot of variables to it and you need to know what they all are with your specific trailer.
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Just look at your overload springs. If you are hitting the overload springs you should back off. It's not necessarily how much you pull that matters but rather where your weight is distributed. On our hay trailers I'm usually pulling 30k plus but only have 2200 lbs. on the pin. I've still got plenty of travel here to my overload springs. You can pull 15k and have 4k of pin weight if you don't have things distributed right. There are certainly alot of variables to it and you need to know what they all are with your specific trailer.