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 of the allowable tongue weight of the SUV. We are considering this product to help us keep an eye on the tongue weight. Wondering if anyone has experience with this product. Thanks in advance. https://www.etrailer.com/Trailer-Hitch-Ball/Weigh-Safe/WSUN-1.html

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

To be honest, I'd be more concerned about balance than raw weight. I'd rather be 10% over tongue weight than to have weight balanced too far to the rear of the trailer.https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6mW_gzdh6to

rlw999 wrote:To be honest, I'd be more concerned about balance than raw weight. I'd rather be 10% over tongue weight than to have weight balanced too far to the rear of the trailer.https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6mW_gzdh6toYah for sure. We have towed lots in life and prefer a slightly heavy hitch. But the trailer has some storage on the front and I think it would be nice to see a dynamic weight as it is easy to get carried away. Previous poster had a point though. Figure it out and then stay with the formula. Either way though I’m willing to spend the money on a scale to get it right. I hate doing the bathroom scale cantilever thing. Works but it’s a pita.

Then get a Sherline tongue scale. Put the tongue on it and load away. When done just hitch up like normal.

QCMan wrote:Then get a Sherline tongue scale. Put the tongue on it and load away. When done just hitch up like normal.I’ll check it out. Thanks.

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

Reisender
Nomad
Jul 27, 2021
rlw999 wrote:
To be honest, I'd be more concerned about balance than raw weight. I'd rather be 10% over tongue weight than to have weight balanced too far to the rear of the trailer.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6mW_gzdh6to

Yah for sure. We have towed lots in life and prefer a slightly heavy hitch. But the trailer has some storage on the front and I think it would be nice to see a dynamic weight as it is easy to get carried away. Previous poster had a point though. Figure it out and then stay with the formula. Either way though I’m willing to spend the money on a scale to get it right. I hate doing the bathroom scale cantilever thing. Works but it’s a pita.
rlw999
Explorer
Jul 27, 2021
To be honest, I'd be more concerned about balance than raw weight. I'd rather be 10% over tongue weight than to have weight balanced too far to the rear of the trailer.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6mW_gzdh6to
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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