Slight little variant is a trailer with surge brakes. In that situation hitting the tow vehicle brakes can help when the trailer is whipping around. I almost wadded it up on the 60 east, right around the 57 where it goes downhill. Had an 85 Blazer towing a flatbed trailer with surge brakes. I used to have an old vw powered sandrail. For some reason i had the sandrail loaded a little further back on the trailer. With my dirtbike at the front. It wasnt enough tongue weight. Seemed to tow fine out of hacienda heights. I was on the downhill section near the 57 and the trailer started swaying bad. Really really bad everyone behind me slowed down. Was before cell phones or i would have made the internet idiot list of the day. Lucky i didnt hurt anyone. I pulled over and did something to adjust the load. Was heading out to GH late on a thursday to do 2 laps before my hands would go numb. I could feel how hitting the brakes was bad, but i was going downhill, so throttling out only meant it would later start to swing again at 10mph faster. In that rare example i was super light on the brakes. Got it under control and pulled over. Having electric trailer brakes now is great. Im always swinging the manual control.
I actually have been thinking of an idea. I want to measure my current trailer tongue weight. Im mostly curious how high it gets loaded with 200g water and 2 motorcycles in the back. I dont have much weight at the tail. My plan is to use a normal scale for humans. But rig it with pieces of wood to cut the weight in half. Have 2 platforms with a solid piece of wood across. Trailer tongue in the middle. One platform has the scale and should read pretty close to half the total weight im hoping. I want to load everything like im heading to glamis and then start to add fresh water from empty and record how it changes. If the number is really high i will take extra effort to move everything heavy to the back. Extra propane. Gas cans from my truck bed can go at the very rear of the trailer if needed.
I actually have been thinking of an idea. I want to measure my current trailer tongue weight. Im mostly curious how high it gets loaded with 200g water and 2 motorcycles in the back. I dont have much weight at the tail. My plan is to use a normal scale for humans. But rig it with pieces of wood to cut the weight in half. Have 2 platforms with a solid piece of wood across. Trailer tongue in the middle. One platform has the scale and should read pretty close to half the total weight im hoping. I want to load everything like im heading to glamis and then start to add fresh water from empty and record how it changes. If the number is really high i will take extra effort to move everything heavy to the back. Extra propane. Gas cans from my truck bed can go at the very rear of the trailer if needed.
