What is this cat scale telling me?
I tried to provide you with a picture but it was asking for a url and I didn’t know how to do that so here are the figures from the cat scale this morning. I think I understand but the tongue weight ...
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mkirsch wrote:
4960 (font + rear with trailer hitched) - 4640 = 420
You don't "account for" the 100lbs that comes off the front axle. It's still there, just on the rear axle now.
420 is correct. What makes you think it's "too heavy?" It's 14.6%, right in the wheelhouse.
GW with trailer is 7400 lbs right?
GW without trailer is 4640.
Grade school arithmetic tells me the trailer weighs 2760.
Going back to scale ticket I see only 2440 is riding on the trailer axle.
Little more arithmetic tells me 320 lbs of the weight of the trailer is riding on the ball, or tongue weight.
Another way to figure is add steer and drive on the first weigh, and subtract the gross of the 2nd. Same 320 lbs
I assume that 420 number comes from drive axle weights. You fail to see the increase when pulling the trailer also includes the 100 the front axle is reduced.
