checking tongue weight with Sherline Scale
I am planning to check tongue weight on a few trailers at the dealer. If I use a Sherline scale and measure at the tongue jack, about what percentage will it be off from actual tongue weight at the h...
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Airstreamer67 wrote:
I weigh at the ball coupler too. That way I don't have to use my arithmetical skills, since me and Jethro Clampett never did it too well in skool :-O
To assure the trailer is at the proper attitude, I use a bubble level on the A-frame. I use the same level to make sure the trailer is level when hooked up to the truck, and I center the bubble when measuring with the Sherline. Works good. No figurin' that way.
Same here and my Sherline came with a post that specifically is to use directly under the ball coupler so you are measuring at the correct point. On thing is to get three or four weights moving the Sherline ever so slightly since any slightly off vertical force tends to give some variability in the weights on the Sherline.
Larry
