Tongue weight in Europe is around 7%
I know I am going to get some super experienced folks in the U.S. criticizing tongue/hitch weights being less than 10%, but let's discuss this. It seems the approach in the U.K. and Europe is to atte...
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OK, so why does a figure skater spin faster if he/she pulls the arms in toward the body?
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EbHwwQ7vksA
I still like to think, in my pea sized brain, that a hypothetical trailer with absolutely no mass anywhere other than split in two equal points, one in front of the axle right up at the coupler, and in the other part on the trailer bumper, but yet would have a theoretical 10% greater load on the coupler/hitch, this trailer would be inherently unstable because of the effect of the opposing pendulums on either side of the center of gravity just forward of the axle.
Consider the opposite theoretical trailer with absolutely no mass forward of the center of gravity, and absolutely no mass to the rear of the center of gravity, yet this center of gravity is just forward of the axle sufficient to yield a 10% load on the hitch. I know this is stupid and impossible in the real world, but wouldn't this hypothetical trailer be more stable than the one that would tic-toc wildly as a metronome out of control?
OK, now, I'll just sit back and try to recall my days in college physics class in 1970 and 1971. Those around me were spacing out on weed, and I was spacing out on physics.
So, back to spinning as a figure skater.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EbHwwQ7vksA
I still like to think, in my pea sized brain, that a hypothetical trailer with absolutely no mass anywhere other than split in two equal points, one in front of the axle right up at the coupler, and in the other part on the trailer bumper, but yet would have a theoretical 10% greater load on the coupler/hitch, this trailer would be inherently unstable because of the effect of the opposing pendulums on either side of the center of gravity just forward of the axle.
Consider the opposite theoretical trailer with absolutely no mass forward of the center of gravity, and absolutely no mass to the rear of the center of gravity, yet this center of gravity is just forward of the axle sufficient to yield a 10% load on the hitch. I know this is stupid and impossible in the real world, but wouldn't this hypothetical trailer be more stable than the one that would tic-toc wildly as a metronome out of control?
OK, now, I'll just sit back and try to recall my days in college physics class in 1970 and 1971. Those around me were spacing out on weed, and I was spacing out on physics.
So, back to spinning as a figure skater.
