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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nickthehunter wrote:JRscooby wrote:I'm pretty sure your tongue weight was way more than 0.05%. At 0.05% a 10,000 lbs trailer would have a tongue weight of about 5 lbs.
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.
Truth is, I never weighed the tongue. I know I had no issue picking up either end to move it. I know I put a modified bumper jack on it because I could not hold it up and back the truck in place. I know the trailer had a MT weight of 8600 lbs. And I know that with the tongue hinged at back, all the weight loaded in the box (normally about 17 tons. Minimum 12) was carried on the axles.
