Tongue Weight % w/w out WDH
I know this has been discussed as nauseum, but my long term memory isn't what it should be and neither are my search skills... When you hear that tongue weight should be 10-15% of overall weight, d...
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afidel wrote:
Why is that hard to believe? Ready to roll for 3 weeks on the road we added about 450lb to our trailer, the CCC is less than 600. Why does everyone assume that people hauling less than 1,000lb in their trailer is mistaken?
It's not impossible - but it is quite unusual, as the comparative is being made to the shipped weight, not the empty weight. We readily stay under 500 pounds of gear, food, etc... (well under, in fact), but there is much more to it than that. Battery (15lbs), propane (50lbs), fresh water (0-325lbs), grey/black tanks (0-400lbs), and in some cases even things such as spare tires aren't accounted for in those spec weights. Those are all approximations, of course, but they add up in a hurry.
I certainly wouldn't claim that you can't run a unit at only 400 pounds over brochure weight, but I would claim that cornering yourself into such a restriction would limit how you can use the trailer. We travel with full propane, full fresh water, and sometimes (when in transit), partially full grey and black tanks. It is easy for our rig to have 300-400 pounds of extra weight over and above all of that which we load. Restricting yourself to low weights limits the ability for those options.
