Re: hauling H or M

Posted by Bill Smith on February 07, 2003 at 09:21:25 from (63.147.130.55):

In Reply to: hauling H or M posted by rustyfarmall on February 07, 2003 at 06:23:29:

Make sure the trailor being used is capable of carrying the entire weight of tractor. Don't use a 3000 lb rated trailor to haul a 5000 lb tractor. Now then, ussually you don't want 1/2 the weight on truck and 1/2 on trailor axles, especially if you got a bumper hitch trailor. You also do not want a trailor loaded rear heavy, which will allow the weighted trailor to decraese the amount of weight on rear of truck. Not knowing the number of axles and type of trailor, it is a little hard to tell you the proper placement of tractor. Assuming you have a dual axle bumper trailor simular to a car trailor, I would load the tractor with 2/3 weight on trailor axles and 1/3 weight on truck bumper. This would allow the weight to be evenly spread to the 3 axles and have adequate weight on the truck. The weight center point of tractor should be in front of the front axle of trailor. You can observe this point when loading by watching the front of trailor go down ounce the center point of weight goes past the balance point of trailor axles. You will want to pull tractor on just a little bit farther, but remember the farther you go the more weight you are going to put on truck. Carrying excesive weight on the truck can create problems to when you have a bumper hitch. Your truck bumper and axle have weight limits too just like your trailor and the more weight you put on the bumper the lighter your front end of truck will be reducing your breaking and steering abillity. Almost, but not as bad as having a negative weight on bumper which causes the trailor and rear of truck to not follow the front end of truck very good. You can have more weight on truck if you got a 5th wheel or goose neck trailor. Then, all you have to worry about is the wieght rating of rear axle of truck. You always want a little weight on the tongue, less than 400 lbs may be getting a little skimpy but 1/2 the weight of tractor is getting to be way to much.

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