Re: Mobile home tongue weight

Posted by Bus Driver on November 24, 2005 at 05:54:20 from (66.226.36.55):

In Reply to: Mobile home tongue weight posted by Paul Janke on November 23, 2005 at 17:28:08:

I don't know the tongue weight, but it may be significant. Locally nothing wider than 14 is permitted. But the number of axles gives a clue to the overall weight. There must be an axle for each 6000# of weight of the unit. I once pulled 9 tons on a trailer with a 35hp tractor and the brakes would never have stopped it going downhill. So just as I topped each hill going up, I stopped and shifted to lower gear. Incidentially, the weight transferred to the tractor helps with traction, both pulling and stopping. Do not try to pull or stop more weight than about 75% of the tractor itself plus the weight transferred from the load onto the hitch.

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