Overweight Toad?
So I just noticed yesterday that my tow hitch says max 3500 lbs. With my tow dolly and car, I'm going to be up around 4200 lbs. Is that too much? I know there has to be some wiggle room in that 350...
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Trackrig wrote:
Well, so far I haven't seen any one say they're a structural steel engineer or something related to designing steel frames for trucks or MHs, or did I miss it someplace?
If one pops up, my question would be "how do they determine the weight capacity that they post"? My guess would be they assign a weight that is very, very safe/conservative because they have no idea what people are actually going to do with the hitch...
Bill, where did you get that extra dose of commonsense?
I watched a very NICE class A RV TURBO DIESEL PUSHER, accelerate into the right lane of I-75 that had 70mph traffic, up a normal steep I-state short on-ramp incline, with ALL FOUR TOAD TIRES LOCKED UP.
I never did find out if all four got flat, or if he stopped in time...
I was in the wrong place in traffic that trying to make a difference would have been unsafe.
Was the toad within the hitch rating? Well, I would say, probably. "Was the hitch exposed to forces outside of the engineers idea of what idiots might do?", probably not in the past, but the reality is that people do DUMB in today's world.
