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Reisender
Nomad
Jul 27, 2021

Weigh safe trailer ball with built in scale. Any comments?

Hi folks. We are planning on buying a little tear drop trailer and pulling with a medium sized SUV. Talking to others with the combo we are looking at, the trailer when loaded is about at 90 percent ...
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JRscooby
Explorer II
Jul 27, 2021
No experience with that, but some thoughts; How will it weigh without the chance of movement top to bottom? So you can't tow with it in place.
It would work to weigh but I would thing a scale that you could set on top of/under a jack would work as well.
Load and weigh, adjust until you get it right. Once you know where to put things you don't need to weigh that often

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