determining pin weight
glanced thru the searches, but didn't see anything on how to determine what my pin weight is. I know I have to use scales, I guess truck scales, but how do I go about determining this? Do I weigh my...
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Artum Snowbird wrote:
Think of it as a load. The total weight of a load is identical to the weight bearing down on all load supporting places.
2000 pounds on the pin, plus 10,000 pounds on the wheels will make a load 0f 12,000 pounds.
Weighing the truck without the pin weight, then the truck with the pin weight will determine the pin weight by itself.
Still a little confused, how do I determine just the pin weight? In other words, how do I determine how much weight is on the pin and how much of the total weight is on the fiver wheels? Do I just weigh with the rear wheels on the scales?
