The difference between dry an loaded weight.
When I bought my 25 ft. TT the literature said 5004 lbs. dry and 400 lbs. on the tongue. Common sense said it would weigh more when loaded but how much more? So before a couple of our trips I took ...
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SoundGuy wrote:dodge guy wrote:
Its often hard to weigh a trailer you don't own. It's also hard to take a brochure to the CAT scale and weigh it. Which is why adding 1200-1500lbs to the dry weight is the best solution for something you don't own.Lantley wrote:
I can sort of agree if you add 1000-1500# to the sticker weight. The dry weight or brochure weight is notoriously too low to be useful.
"Notoriously" is a bit of an exaggeration ... if we're talking 1000 lbs difference then sure but in most cases the difference is more like a few hundred pounds at most. My own Coachmen had a brochure dry weight of 3535 lbs but wears a sticker saying it's UVW as it left the factory is 3815 lbs, a difference of 280 lbs. For larger trailers this difference may be somewhat greater but it's certainly not anything like 1000 lbs, which I would then accept as being "notorious". For anyone in the market I'd suggest working from the sticker dry weight as the trailer left the factory but if for some reason you can't get that information then adding a few hundred pounds to the brochure dry weight will certainly get you into the ballpark.
My definition of heavy is if I can't budge it. A 5.0 Engine weighs a few hundred pounds. 400 or so. That's heavy and a large error margin. I would not try to lift a 5.0 engine . There is nothing marginal about its weight. By the time you get up to 1000 pounds off your not even trying to be accurate and might as well not even bother.
Imagine weighing a car and forgetting to weigh the engine.
The brochure weights are inaccurate and not to be trusted.
