Now that I've added a 4 foot extension on my Camper to tow my toys with, I'm more concerned about the tongue weights & wanting to make sure i'm placing the weight properly.So what a great inexpensive price on a good scale that you would recommend?

The inexpensive route is a bathroom scale, a brick for a fulcrum and a 4x4 board as a lever.I didn't want to fiddle with all that, so I bought one of the expensive scales that you can lower the tongue right onto (good for 2000 lbs).I was really surprised how much extra tongue I gained adding a real mattress and a 2nd propane bottle.

I'm thinking one simple mistake & there goes a bathroom scale??!?!But can you explain or give me a link showing how to use a bathroom scale?

Here's a link to the bathroom scale method.

$125 plus shipping ?Take a chance on a bathroom scale. It's not life or death after all :)Thanks for the link !

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Blanco1

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Jul 21, 2014

Trailer tongue weight scales?

Now that I've added a 4 foot extension on my Camper to tow my toys with, I'm more concerned about the tongue weights & wanting to make sure i'm placing the weight properly.

So what a great inexpensive price on a good scale that you would recommend?

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GordonThree
Explorer
Jul 21, 2014
The inexpensive route is a bathroom scale, a brick for a fulcrum and a 4x4 board as a lever.

I didn't want to fiddle with all that, so I bought one of the expensive scales that you can lower the tongue right onto (good for 2000 lbs).

I was really surprised how much extra tongue I gained adding a real mattress and a 2nd propane bottle.

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