Jim,
I guess it would be easy enough to put a dowel in the tongue socket and lower that
down into the scale receiver to get the actual wt at the ball. Then from that
measurement figure the fudge factor. This is an older scale calibrated in 50lb
increments barely used and my guess is the newer scale suggested by you and Wayne
would be more accurate. This one will do until I can get the other. Trailer
seems to tow fine and these measurements were a double check of what I suspected was
an "acceptable" ratio.
Thanks Again, Paul
Jim Dunmyer wrote:
> Paul,
> The instructions with the Sherline suggested weighing the tounge at the
> ball, then at the jack and compare the 2. You'll then know what fudge
> factor to use; it's not necessary to go to a whole bunch of trouble to
> get EXACT measurements, just in the ballpark.
>
> Personal experience: I have a tandem axle flatbed trailer that I almost
> never use. Last year, I dragged it out of the weeds and took it about 8
> miles to the site of an auction where I had bought some metal racks. I
> don't imagine that the total weight of the racks was much over 1000#,
> and we just pushed 'em onto the rear of the trailer. The first set was
> about centered over the axles, the others were behind. On the way home,
> that trailer wanted to take off if I exceeded about 30MPH, so I took it
> REAL easy.
>
> Last W/E, I used that same trailer to haul a load over 30 miles, but I
> was reasonably careful to get some weight up front. Had it up to 50 a
> couple of times and there was no evidence of sway.
>
> http://www.sherline.com/lm.htm takes you to Sherline's Web Site, right
> to the Scale page. They have links on that page to "horror stories", and
> a "towing guide". It's all good reading.
>
> <<Jim>>
>
> Paul Farley wrote:
> >
> > Jim,
> > Thank you for your help, it's always appreciated. I recently weighed (public
> > scale)a trailer I've been working on to get the actual weight. I then
> > weighed the "tongue wt" at the crank jack as per the tongue scale
> > instructions. I'm sure at the ball is a more accurate measurement but the
> > instructions with the scale I own have you lowering the tongue jack into this
> > spring backed cylinder with an incremental reading on the side of the cylinder
> > being the "tongue wt". Hopefully it is close enough. The tongue ball is
> > another foot away and I guess would read a slightly different wt.
> > Paul #2580
> > Jim Dunmyer wrote:
> >
>
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