Help with weight questions on tt
I am trying figure some of this weight information out. The link below is the same tt as mine. This is the weight info below shows dw + ccc = 7,102. I thought it should add up to 7,790. The stic...
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walleyeb1 wrote:The way to determine the true tongue weight is to take your loaded-for-camping trailer to a scales and measure the tongue jack load directly. Or measure the tongue jack load alone of the scales has only one pad. The load carried on the ball (which is the true tongue weight) would be about 95% of the load measured under the tongue jack.
What I'm trying to get to is what my true tongue weight is.
If the scales operator will not allow you to disconnect from the trailer with the tongue jack on one pad and the trailer axles on another, you can do the following:
1. Measure the weight of the TV without the TT attached.
2. Hitch up the TT, but do not apply load to the WD bars. Then measure the weight of the TV again.
3. Subtract 1. from 2. to get a good estimate of the true tongue weight.
Ron
