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on a scale. The trailer must be properly loaded as determined above, with your
allowable personal cargo and variable weights.
Hitch Weight
To use a scale that has a lower weight limit than your tongue load, such as a
bathroom scale, to check the tongue weight use the following method (see
illustration).
Level the trailer front to back and side to side. Place a piece of wood of ap-
proximately the same thickness as the bathroom scales on the ground in line
with the trailer hitch jack as shown. It should be so spaced that a short piece
of pipe or other round piece will lay exactly one foot from the centerline of the
jack extension.
Place the scales so that another round piece can be exactly two feet from the
centerline of the jack extension in the other direction. Place a 4 x 4 on the two
round pieces and screw the jack extension down on the top of the 4 x 4 until
the tongue of the trailer is supported by it. Multiply the scale reading by three.
This will be the tongue weight of your trailer. If you exceed the capacity of the
bathroom scales, increase the two-foot dimension to three or four more feet,
but always multiply the scale reading by the total number of feet between the
wood and scales.
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: Be sure trailer is level when you read scales.
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2 FT.
1 Ft.
Pipe
Pipe
Bathroom Scale
Wood Support
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