Johnf7 wrote:
dodge guy wrote:
They set it like that because they know you will load .... once you get it loaded properly mark the floor so you know where the car will always go.
Thanks for the good advice and insight. I guess I should keep a pile of 10 sandbags in my garage for when I tow it empty (to get the tongue weight from 30% down to 12%). Sand is cheap i and I can dump the excess when I do my pick-up. My usual load will be cars weighing between 1000-1750lbs. And they have close to 50/50 weight balance. So I will need to load the cars with the tow ring at the back door to significantly change ring weight.
That said, is it nuts to keep 600lbs of steel plates or bags of steel shot (canopy weight bags) in the trailer that can be moved fore-aft like ship ballast? I will very rarely need the last 1000lbs of towing weight capacity for any loads and movable weights would be more compact/tidy than in/out with sand bags. Too bad the axles are not movable. I suppose this is also a reason to buy a custom trailer with balance setup for your own specific needs.
Glad I spent the $ to get the scale. Wish I could've used weighsafe's ball with integrated scale but my WD bars would hit it in tight turns.
The 10% is a minimum, the extra hitch weight is not going to hurt anything so don't add bags or other weight to bring it down.
