Sway problem need help

DiskDoctr wrote:
You can engineer the platform and mounting. But that doesn't mean the trailer can handle it. No need to be so hard on the engineer.

While I do have a lot of "respect" for GOOD Engineers there are BUNCHES of BAD Engineers out there.

The term Engineer can be used in ANY FIELD (IE electrical, mechanical, plumbing, structural and so on).

The problem starts when an Engineer in one field decides to "engineer" something in a field that they have little or NO training in. This just may be the case.

HOWEVER, if that engineer was a GOOD engineer that would have done several things..

FIRST, RECOGNIZE that they do not have enough understanding of the project. Instead they would either design and then send design to ANOTHER ENGINEER to have them run the numbers on the overall design (which includes all the trailer data). Then if the proper engineer approves the first one can allow the design to be built.

Or the engineer would REFUSE to design the project AND send you to one that DOES HAVE PROPER understanding..

SECOND, A GOOD ENGINEER WILL REFUSE to design and stamp the design if they do not have the correct expertise.

A trailer is not a STATIC design, no it is a DYNAMIC (in motion) design and therefore the calculations of all the motion forces must be accounted for. Plus you add in the complexity of the proper weight loads of the tongue. Makes for a lot of work to get it right.

In the case of the OPs situation, the engineer did not account for the trailer nor the tongue weights and solely designed the PLATFORM without taking the overall affects of the added load to the dynamics of the trailer loads...