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Want to trailer my truck so I'm wondering where the balance point is to keep the tongue weight where it should be. Any comments?

Thanks!

I can't tell you where it is, but here's a 2-man way to figure out when it's loaded right. You should have about 200 lbs on the trailer tongue. Get a friend who weighs about that much to sit or stand on the back of the tow vehicle and then measure the height of the hitch from the ground. Then, hook up the trailer and load the truck up, moving it forward a little at a time until your hitch is at the previously-measured "200 pound height." Finally, secure the truck to the trailer with chains/binders and you're good to go.

Lifer wrote:I can't tell you where it is, but here's a 2-man way to figure out when it's loaded right. You should have about 200 lbs on the trailer tongue. Get a friend who weighs about that much to sit or stand on the back of the tow vehicle and then measure the height of the hitch from the ground. Then, hook up the trailer and load the truck up, moving it forward a little at a time until your hitch is at the previously-measured "200 pound height." Finally, secure the truck to the trailer with chains/binders and you're good to go.

Thats good advice Lifer...thanks... I learned something today...cool.

No big deal. It's just "farmer's tech." We've loaded tractors and equipment on trailers that way for years. Most of us don't have to have anybody for "ballast" on the tow vehicles any more. We've done it so many times we can pretty much "eyeball" it.

Xlnt idea. Thanks!

Can't beat "farmer tech"! I'll never forget the day an uncle of mine showed me how to make a "mega-mousetrap".