Using Sherline TW scale in the driveway
Ok so I just purchased one of these the other day. My plan is to try it out on the driveway at home. I'm not so much worried about the slope of the driveway because when I go back far enough its...
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RJCorazza wrote:
Since you will be moving it anyway (to the fairly level spot) why not take the trailer to a level residential street and weigh it?
I weigh mine on a level stretch, at seated ball height (exactly level or not).
That's what I do as well, not to just weigh the tongue but whenever I might be setting up a WD hitch ... take the trailer to a vacant area of a mall parking lot and set up wherever I can find a relatively flat, level area for the trailer to sit while I'm taking my measurements. It's been awhile now so I forget the exact numbers but I seem to recall my tongue weight measurements taken with the trailer leveled on our significantly sloped driveway were quite a bit different than the reading I got at the parking lot, IIRC something on the order of ~ 50 lbs. IMO that's quite a bit so if you're going to the trouble of measuring it with a Sherline I'd say it's worth dragging the trailer to a lot somewhere so you can measure with the trailer sitting on a flat, level surface.
