Weight question

myredracer wrote:


So, if anyone says you add 1500-2000 lbs to the factory UVW, I don't believe it. That's 3-4 times what I got from going through the exercise of weighing everything before and after. You will also need to allow for the weight of the propane and battery or batteries and anything else the manufacturer may not include in their UVW. I would say that by the time you have everything loaded in your TT ready for a camping trip, you will have added something more like 700 - 800 lbs. For those that tow with one or more full holding tanks, you'd have to add that weight in which case, 1500 - 2000 lbs may not be out of line.

Here you go:



If you can't read it it says the UVW is 4,917 and that includes the weight at the axles and the tongue weight. The GVWR is 7,549 and is based on two 3500 axles and a 549lb tongue wt.

Now I measure my tongue wt. with a sherline scale and don't have it from CAT scale calculations since all my CAT scale weights are basically to know and be sure I'm within my individual axle wts. However from my previous post here the "ACTUAL" CAT scale total TT axle wts. for the 10 wt. tickets are all between 6700 and 6960. However those numbers include between 10 and 40g of FW so the number for a trailer with empty tanks both fresh and holding would be around 300lbs less or very close to 6500 on average. All my CAT scale wt. are with completely empty holding tanks since they are on the first day out or the day we get back home in the one after road trip scale weight. Now remember those don't include the tongue wt., but do include whatever portion of the tongue wt. that has been transferred back to the TT axles from the WDH system (a 1.2/12K Equal-i-zer in my case). My tongue wt. from my Sherline scale runs right at 900 to 950lbs so a very conservative wt. would be around 7000 (including tongue wt) and comparing that to my UVW of 4900 gives me an added cargo wt. of about 2100 lbs on average. They only unusual item I have in my trailer weight wise is an MRFT-40 NORCOLD portable refer that when loaded up would weigh just over 100lbs and that is for traveling in the very front of the trailer.

Now you can no longer say you can't believe ANYONE could add those type of weights to their actual UVW ... I've just proven the opposite with actual UVW documentation and actual CAT scale weight slip numbers.

Larry