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Old 11-09-2018, 08:08 PM
Thecastle Thecastle is offline
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I agree it would seem that tongue weight is too high, but we didn't directly measure it. I purchased a tongue scale this weekend and we're going to measure the trailer, as is on Sunday. Not loaded with water, stuff or a full set of propane tanks. Ideally we'd like to keep it below 750lbs.

We've made a lot of modifications to our trailer to make it an ideal boon-docking trailer. As we camp off grid a lot, namely a big battery bank on the tongue 4x6V golf cart batteries 60.5lbs each, plus 2/0 wiring, etc. for the inverter. Which was added to the tongue. The trailer actually towed better after the mods.

In order to actually measure tongue weight we would need to way the tow vehicle by itself, and the trailer with wdh on and off. We only measure the rig with WDH on. We did weigh more than 1x that day mainly because we were learning how to weigh, then moved on.

So all of this may be inaccurate.

Last edited by Thecastle; 11-09-2018 at 08:20 PM.
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