Re: How to properly balance a trailor load??

Posted by mike brown on January 25, 2005 at 16:17:00 from (208.1.215.7):

In Reply to: Re: How to properly balance a trailor load?? posted by Pete from cal on January 25, 2005 at 11:17:27:

Those heavy ramps you added to the back of the trailor will cause instability because of the distance they are from the center of lateral resistance, the trailor tires. The greater the distance the more the tail wags the dog. Simply adding weight to the tounge won't solve the problem completely because that extra mass of the ramps has too long a lever. See if you can reengineer them so you can slide/fold them over the axles when you transport and your sway problems will be solved.
Always load the heaviest stuff over the axles (maintaining some tounge weight) and load light stuff on the ends.

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