Weighing?

[Coolbreeze]

Since this is my first 5'er couls someone tell me how I should weigh the trailer. The owners manual shows a TT being weighed but not a 5'er. Would you weigh the unit with the TV then unhook and weigh the TV by itself and subtract the differenc to find the tongue weight?

Coolbreeze

PS I live jsut 2 miles from a truck stop that has CAT scales

[Coolbreeze]

Since this is my first 5'er couls someone tell me how I should weigh the trailer. The owners manual shows a TT being weighed but not a 5'er. Would you weigh the unit with the TV then unhook and weigh the TV by itself and subtract the differenc to find the tongue weight?

Coolbreeze

PS I live jsut 2 miles from a truck stop that has CAT scales

[TF36DSMatt]

Yes. Weighing a 5er is fairly quick and easy at a CAT Scale. Same process as for a TT.

And since you have a 5er I think you mean pin weight rather than tongue weight.

[Coolbreeze]

Yes I should have said pin weight instead of tongue weight but then again I have only had my 5'er for only 2 weeks now. Give me time

[Hitchhiker]

Load it up the way you normally travel including stuff in the truck along with the passengers who normally travel. Head for the CAT scale and drive on in such a manner that the truck's axles are weighed separately along with the two trailer axles together weighed separately from the truck.

Then drive out to the parking compound and drop the trailer and re-weigh the truck. Do the math, the difference in the rear axle will be the pin weight.

Kudos to you for wanting to know your true actual weights.

[Coolbreeze]

Hitchhiker,

Thanks for the info. I just want to make sure that you had made a typo error, "you said to drop the trailer and re-weigh the trailer". I'm guessing you mean't to re-weigh the truck.

Would I just subtract the weight of the truck rear axle while hooked to the trailer the the weight of just the rear axle of the truck only?


Coolbreeze

[Hitchhiker]

Yep, my boo boo. I edited it so it'll read correctly. Thanks for catching it.

It'd be tough to reweigh the trailer if it's not hooked to a truck to get it over to the scale.

[TF36DSMatt]

Think about your tanks...

I would fill up fuel on the TV and generator before weighing.

You may want your water tanks full when you weigh if you boondock and travel with water. I don't travel with water in the tanks so I weighed with mine empty.