firestorm79 wrote:
RinconVTR wrote:
I think its fair to say, practically every vehicle and towing rig type in the world has been involved in some unfortunate incident.
But it takes a special type of weak human being to paste such images into a forum and add their own pure speculation simply to create fear in people.
Why is it the people who overload their vehicles are the one's who feel the need to post about how they've successfully done it without any problems? Then there's the people who laud them for their "accomplishment". I don't often see people that have 1,000 lbs of extra payload after they're fully loaded posting about how they've done it without problems. There's no need to. The point of me posting the pictures was because it is a similar setup to what the OP posted and a caution to those who think it can't happen to them.
Oh I get it. So because I can find an abundant number semi trailer and 5th wheel roll overs and should assume what happened in each case, we all must assume that towing in general will get us all killed. Just look at all those pictures on the internet!
Back to reality, see below for my actual verified weights.
Fully loaded (fresh water on board as well) tongue weight via Sherline scale.
My own spread sheet of the above weights;
