How to avoid getting blown all over the road
Hello All, Curious on how I can avoid wind blowing the camper and my truck all over the place to the point of it being really annoying to drive and causing me to not even want to use it. I have...
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BackOfThePack wrote:
Only 1 line I can disagree with
— TW can be accurately determined.
The most accurate TW that can be determined is what you get when you compare weights of steer+drive in pass 1 and 3.
If you need a WDH, the nose of the trailer will be low when the bars are loose. And as the tongue goes down weight is transferred from axle to tongue.
But that does not matter, because the percentage TW that matters is what you get when ready to drive.
Pass number 2 gives you more numbers, sure. But very many people have issues working with numbers, let alone deciding what numbers they need to solve the problem
1). Across scale with bars torqued.
2). Across scale with bars slack.
3). Drop trailer and weigh TV solo.
Now maybe somebody reading this might think I must be wrong because so many want pass 2. The only reason I can see to want those numbers is they do not believe the weight distribution tongue/axles change as the tongue is lowered. If you believe moving something/anything from behind to in front of the axle changes the TW, a simple diagram can prove it.
Lets start with a side view of single axle trailer. With the trailer set at any given slope, front/rear, draw a vertical line thru center of axle, mark that line on side of trailer. Now lower the tongue. When you draw the vertical line there is a space between the lines. If you can see the lines as planes, there will be a wedge-shaped area that moved from behind to in front of axle. Now how much weight is in that wedge? I'm not smart enough to figure, but I know it is not 0.
Now for a multi-axle trailer, the picture is more complicated, but there will be multiple lines, but there will be a wedge that moves in front of front axle, and another wedge that moves in front of last axle.
