Tongue Weight
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Safety is an important and often overlooked topic. Make safety a part of your everyday life and let others know how much you care by making their lives safer too. Let the next generation of tractor enthusiasts benefit from your experience, and maybe save a life or appendages.
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Tongue Weight
by tccanoe » Sun Aug 07, 2011 11:58 am
Back to tongue weight for just a minuet. Why can't we just take the ol' digital bathroom scale, place a small piece of plywood on it, zero, crank the trailer up off the ball and get a very good idea of our tongue weight? As long as it's than 400lbs, any digital bathroom scale should be able to handle it.
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Re: Tongue Weight
by John *.?-!.* cub owner » Sun Aug 07, 2011 3:28 pm
I needs to be under the ball mount, not the jack stand if you want an accurate weight. A rule of thumb I use in the field is that the bumper of my heavy half Ford should be between 2 and 4 inches lower with a loaded trailer hitched then without the trailer.
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Re: Tongue Weight
by chief » Sun Aug 07, 2011 7:10 pm
Tongue Weight
http://auto.howstuffworks.com/auto-part ... weight.htm
http://www.uhaul.com/Trailers/HitchGlossary/
http://www.hitchingup.com/tongue-weight.htm
http://www.sherline.com/lm.htm
http://www.rverscorner.com/tongueweight.html
This is just a start, A lot of good info. But just go to google and put in trailer Tongue Weight, and you will find a lot of Info.
http://auto.howstuffworks.com/auto-part ... weight.htm
http://www.uhaul.com/Trailers/HitchGlossary/
http://www.hitchingup.com/tongue-weight.htm
http://www.sherline.com/lm.htm
http://www.rverscorner.com/tongueweight.html
This is just a start, A lot of good info. But just go to google and put in trailer Tongue Weight, and you will find a lot of Info.
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