Average pin weight?
I've often read that a 5'rs pin weight, on average, is 20-25% of the trailers weight. Personally, mine runs around 22%. Do most people find this rule of thumb to be accurate? Reading a thread on 1...
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wolfsontheprowl wrote:
ok for all of us who are afraid to ask how to determine pin weight. Truck and trailer weigh 15,080. Trailer and truck rear axle weigh 11,620. Trailer axle (hooked up to truck) weighs 6860. truck weighs (again hooked to trailer) 8240.
Truck unhooked from trailer weighs 6560.
I have seem some formulas that takes hours to arrive to pin weight.
Right now, trailer pulls fine with truck. Happy with setup
Thanks for the help with figuring out pin weight (wife was a former math teacher :))
I know you have gotten an answer to this already, but I have a blog post from one of my weighings that I break down the math:
http://learntorv.blogspot.com/2013/08/weighed-again-still-all-ok.html
If you put your mouse over each of the numbers, it tells you what that particular number is. Hopefully it can help you.
