Eye opening CAT weighing
For last weekend's camping, I was going by a truck stop with CAT scales and wanted to get some ready to camp weights on my rig. Onboard was my wife, lab, & me. I had to get out to use the call button...
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Boomerweps wrote:
Just crawled under the TT to check the axle. Clearly marked 3500 pounds. So all the extra/overage listed in the specs is tongue weight. And, if I understand how the WDH works, more tension puts not only more weight to the TV's front axle but some goes back to the TT axle. Man, I really need to diagram out my rig with weights so I can clearly explain to SWMBO our limitations in TT loading.
Still unloading stuff. Cut our metal silverware weight by half, saved another 1.05#! That was in addition to removing 26.4# from the TT last night, and 23# from the TV. Discussed leaving the cast iron at home depending on our menu, that went over surprisingly well ;)
Haven't used the factory metal platform yet, considering moving the spare tire elsewhere and pulling the platform. It's got to be 40-50#.
Don't feel bad... history repeats itself often! Everytime I weigh the camper it never ceases to amaze me what stuff weights. 20# here, 5 # there etc. it all adds up and is always shocking... While you have small camper, big campers have the same problem....
