Trailer capacity

[sawtooth]

You can do it for free!
You can use a simple bathroom scale to measure any tongue weight.
Don't believe me?
Check the E-trailer website to learn how,.... with no cost.

Dang that’s a **** of a bathroom scale then. King Kong’s supplier. Lol

 

[jaxs]

I have no doubts that method can be done accurately. I think itç—´ vastly over a high percentage of people math ability to do so. Figuring out a total price after a 10% tax is mind boggling for a lot of people. I知 betting thereç—´ more people that cant calculate the volume of a cube than those that can. Now youæ±*e suggesting using ratios or fractions? Go look at the towing something wrong thread.

All that has been factored in by weighting college entrance test scores for those that are lacking,lagging behind or simply to stupid to learn. You need to watch your step. By pointing that out,you are right on the edge of politically incorrect.acifier:

 

[aczlan]

My last Bigtex trailer was rated from the manufacturer at over 18,000 payload. It’s impossible to obtain that figure without using hitch weight. The trailer weighed 5500 with double 10k axels.

Very common.

Dang that’s a **** of a bathroom scale then. King Kong’s supplier. Lol

You use a board as a lever so that be bathroom scale only carries a quarter of the tongue weight.

Aaron Z

 

[newbury]

This is not correct. As RickB mentions the tongue weight is not shared between the trailer and tow vehicle. Picture it this way there is a inexpensive scale used to measure tongue weight. Place the tongue onto those scales and what ever is shown on it is carried by the tow vehicle. Plain and simple and straightforward. You can buy these scales off of eBay for under $200 I believe.

Or you can get a good one from etrailer for $119.
Sherline Trailer Tongue Weight Scale - 2,000-lb Capacity Sherline Tools 578

You can do it for free!
You can use a simple bathroom scale to measure any tongue weight.
Don't believe me?
Check the E-trailer website to learn how,.... with no cost.

Very common.
You use a board as a lever so that be bathroom scale only carries a quarter of the tongue weight.

Aaron Z

And that method can be such a pain that even though I'm big cheapskate, after doing it about half a dozen times I went and bought the one I linked from etrailer.
I usually measure my tongue weight several times during a full load moving stuff from Virginia to Mississippi with my cargo trailer (10K GVW) or equipment trailer (12k GVW).

 

[RandyT]

My last trailer was rated over 18,000 payload by the manufacturer. Should it be limited to hauling 14.5k? If I load 17,000 on the trailer and drive across a scale with each axel carrying 9500 and the truck is rated for the 3500 pounds it痴 carrying is anything over loaded? The trailer weighs 5500 with double 10k axels and the 4 tires on the axel are rated for more than 10k in duel configuration.

And you have found the glitch in trailer ratings by different manufacturers. You have a 20K rated trailer that one company would list as a 18K payload trailer whereas another company would list the payload at 14.5K

 

[4570Man]

I’ve never seen a trailer with double 10k axels advertised as a 7.5 ton trailer. They’re all advertised as 10 ton trailers. Mine was a 22k series. And grossing 22k with it would be easily achievable. How to gross 22 and haul 18 on it, I’m not sure about.

 

[sawtooth]

Or you can get a good one from etrailer for $119.
Sherline Trailer Tongue Weight Scale - 2,000-lb Capacity Sherline Tools 578





And that method can be such a pain that even though I'm big cheapskate, after doing it about half a dozen times I went and bought the one I linked from etrailer.
I usually measure my tongue weight several times during a full load moving stuff from Virginia to Mississippi with my cargo trailer (10K GVW) or equipment trailer (12k GVW).

Yep just ordered that one. Cheap enough.

 

[3Ts]

I have no doubts that method can be done accurately. I think it逞ｴ vastly over a high percentage of people math ability to do so. Figuring out a total price after a 10% tax is mind boggling for a lot of people. I遏･ betting there逞ｴ more people that cant calculate the volume of a cube than those that can. Now you豎*e suggesting using ratios or fractions? Go look at the towing something wrong thread.

I was horrified by your post! Because I think you're right. It's not that hard and I'm not sure if it's a result of our school system passing kids that don't deserve to be or whether it's because the kids just don't care or something else?

 

[goeduck]

Tires are rated to carry less per tire in duels vs single.

Even if the wheels shine like that? That should count for something. :thumbsup:

 

[4570Man]

Even if the wheels shine like that? That should count for something. :thumbsup:

Well, all my trucks and trailers have steel wheels. I’m sure the shiny ones boost fuel efficiency and hauling capacity.