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dodge_guy
Aug 28, 2022Explorer II
tealboy wrote:JRscooby wrote:dodge guy wrote:
To know for sure weigh the tongue with the bathroom scale method.
You would be hard pressed to convince me a bathroom scale/beam set up will read within the 20 lbs the cat rounds things. He is far enough from the hitch limit we know not over, so not too heavy. He has not mentioned any handling issues, so not too light.
For fun, I brought home a 400lb big game scale from the hunt ranch. I’m going to weigh it since I can but not bc I have any doubt about the actual weight of the tongue.
Edit: just weighted using game scale and came up with 285. Used bathroom scale which maxes at 300 and I got 295. Cat scale indicated 320.
More variances than I would prefer since I like to be precise but bottom line is, no matter what scale I use, I’m under tongue rating.
There is an old saying…… a guy with a tire pressure gauge knows what his pressures are, a guy with 2 gauges is never sure!
I would call the weight 300 and be done!
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