Towing weight distribution display

[Jon]

Towing weight distribution display. Not the single most common tow vehicle, but bonus points for repurposing a treadmill.

[Jon]

Similar concept in real life. 18-second video.

I'm not exactly certain what the correction strategy should be here. I've heard both "foot off the gas" and "speed up".

[Jon]

[Mi Tasol]

[QUOTE=Jon;96840]Towing weight distribution display. Not the single most common tow vehicle, but bonus points for repurposing a treadmill. /QUOTE]

It is a pity they did not show the other common mistake stupid people make - too much load on the tow bar. And another catch is the load CG too high.

I wish I had had a camera a couple of years back. A Ford F150 with a heavily loaded single axle trailer behind and all the load at the front parked at the supermarket. The Ford back springs were fully compressed and the front springs fully unloaded so that the idiot had almost zero weight on the steer wheels and therefore minimal control.

The kicker was the BIG bumper sticker across the front of the bonnet/hood

PUBLIC SERVANT AND PROUD OF IT

Probably 30 years ago now I saw an accident while waiting to enter a highway where a car with caravan with the same issue. When he came over the top of the hill the front wheels became airborne as the caravan CG moved forward in relation to the axle and increased the load on the tow ball. Then the cross wind took control. Fortunately the idiot was only crawling along in the fast lane and no one close behind. The highway was blocked for a long while but no serious injuries though I was late for work as I waited to give the cops my witness statement.

Here in Australia they now occasionally check the weight of trailers/caravans and issue small fines for overload but as far as I know they ignore CG issues even though those are far more serious.

[Jon]

When you do a great job securing a load.

[mr95gst]

When you do a great job securing a load.

This was a mile from my house. I passed it on the way home from work. I wanted to get a picture, but I was afraid the cops would catch me playing with my phone.

[suther51]

Similar concept in real life. 18-second video.

I'm not exactly certain what the comrrection strategy should be here. I've heard both "foot off the gas" and "speed up".

I can only imagine hitting the trailer breaks only and only if the trailer does not start to correct using more gas and the trailer breaks. Worked with a fellow that talked about using this approach with a rig when the trailer tried to over take the tractor on slippery roads. By slowing down the trailer will only try to overtake the tow vehicle even more. Can only figure that slowing down would help if cought soon enough, if it can be cought soon enough, have to be very alert and aware of the potential involved. Real glad something like this has never even begun to happen to me. Despite some of the risks I have taken for the boss. No substitute for caution. Or the fortune of beginners.
Eric

[Frank S]

Kast week we were cleaning up around the place and loaded 5,200 lbs of short iron in my little single axle trailer. I was good with the tires 10 ply rating trailer rated 80 PSI good for 6,400 for the pair and had about 1500 of the weight on the tongue Good with the tongue weight I built the trailer What I wasn't good with was the fact that the receiver hitch I normally use was on the other truck and that truck was 200 miles away. So I had to use my shorty hitch which made the front of the trailer about 10" higher than normal.
Usually I would be cruising along with a load this size at around 70 to 75MPH with no worries but I was only running along at 45 to sometimes 50 the Wife commented that at this rate it was going to take a couple hours to get to the scrap yard.
I said the little trailer is on good tires and strong stiff springs and following rock steady there is probably only around 4000 lbs on the axle but I don't have my regular receiver so the front is up in the air it make take us a while longer to get there but the key to this is we will get there.
She said I was just wondering why you weren't driving faster like you usually do is all.

[MeJasonT]

I worked on a rock dumping vessel with an ROV, we were sent home whilst the ship went to the quarry for more rocks. The ship hit an underwater mountain in the Norwegian fjords, capsized and sank with the loss of half its crew. A few years the ship was recovered and the 3 ton ROV was still strapped to the deck with 2 ton ratchet straps.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/MV_Rocknes_(2001)

The Art of Dredging - Rocknes_capsizing

[MeJasonT]

[QUOTE=MeJasonT;133419]I worked on a rock dumping vessel with an ROV, we were sent home whilst the ship went to the quarry for more rocks. The ship hit an underwater mountain in the Norwegian fjords, capsized and sank with the loss of half its crew. A few years the ship was recovered and the 3 ton ROV was still strapped to the deck with 2 ton ratchet straps.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/MV_Rocknes_(2001)

***** theartofdredging.com/rocknescapsizing.htm]The Art of Dredging - Rocknes_capsizing ****** is now broken

Sorry guys i had to repost to fix a link

https://www.hydro-international.com/...ying-the-blame

making the point of the beauty of cargo straps, never underestimate these things they are rock solid when used properly
haa ha pun intended.