Getting Pin Weight From Tongue Weight Scale
If after loading up your Fifth Wheel the way you normally do to go camping you made a secure enough base using a 6X6 and some supports to keep things stable, chocked your wheels and put a 5000 pound s...
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1Wheeldrive wrote:
If you are towing a 5th wheel, moving cargo around is not going to affect pin weight very much unless you put a bunch of gold bars in the basement. I have a 35 foot toy hauler which I weighed empty (as delivered), then loaded up for vacation with a dirt bike, a 600+ lb. quad, camping gear and 50 gallons of water for the road and 30 gallons of gas for the toys and the genny. Probably over 2,000 lbs. total of cargo, then weighed again. The load added about 440 lbs. to my pin weight. Adding the toys to the garage made little difference in the pin weight. As delivered the trailer weighed 13,100 lbs. with 2,560 lbs. on the pin. Loaded for vacation as described above the trailer weighed 15,740 lbs. with 3,000 lbs on the pin. GVWR for the trailer is 16,400 lbs.
Interesting. I would have assumed the dirt bike and quad would have lightened the pin weight some while the rest of the cargo would put weight back on the Pin.
