can I tow on the ball
My truck is a Ram 2500 diesel with a GVWR of 10,000lbs. My trailer weighs 5300 unloaded. I travel with a full tank of water and not much else, so my total cargo weight is maybe in the four hundred lb ...
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Gdetrailer wrote:
Afidel,
Before you blast me, I suggest you watch the video demonstration in the link below..
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In that small scale video around the 25 second mark they move the weight to behind the trailer axle and sway starts with very little to no input.
Around the 45 second mark, they move the weight back in front of the trailer axle and the sway stops almost immediately.
This video should be a sticky and a mandatory must watch video before folks start towing..
HERE is another video that goes over TW and how to determine and measure it (although on larger and heavier trailers one needs to make some adaptations to the way the common household bathroom scale is used which is not in the video).
For the bathroom scale, HERE is a good video demonstration on how to do this.
I'm sure glad you never got a chance to talk to the full trailer I pulled the most. MT TW was less than 0.05%. Loaded, less than 0.005%. Replace bushings in tongue about every 50,000 miles, and it tracked like it was on rails.
Now when talking RVs, or most other trailers, the TW is important. You should set things up to where sway is unlikely, then add sway control for when something goes wrong.
