Never did answer my question on tongue weight on your pull behind. Do you know?
Your interest in everything of mine is starting to get creepy. Just why are you so interested in what I have and in your mind don't have? I've asked you several direct questions too over the last few weeks that you've never addressed either. Apparently you thing you should be held to one standard and I should be held to another?
CREEPY, CREEPY, CREEPY!!!
One reason I won't answer is if I did you would find some way to put a 'twist' on it and try to tell me how wrong I'm doing things. That from the guy that has zero idea of what an F-150 is rated at for towing.
I'll go slow and try to explain this info so maybe (long shot I realize) you'll be able to understand it.
Our camper is a 'front load' toy hauler so the tongue weight varies with what all is loaded in the toy bay. An electric golf cart weighs more than a gasoline powered one and therefore creates increased tongue weight. A large quad weighs more than a small quad so the tongue weight will vary from hook up to hook up depending on what is loaded into the toy bay.
We were cruising down the road one day last winter down in Florida and I found three tires that would fit my H. Bought them all and loaded them into the toy bay. Adjusted the equalizer hitch to compensate for the additional tongue weight and drove 'safely' down the road. No problems for 1200 miles and now the 'old' H has plenty of spare rubber sitting around. And before you point out that I should have tied the tires down inside the toy bay you can sleep better tonight knowing that I always restrain my load more than appropriately. Been doing this since I was 19 and never a real mishap to report. Amazing what one person can do if they just take things easy and pay attention to what they're doing.
As far as "do I know the tongue weight"... yes I do. I have an old platform scales that I can weigh most any object I can get to it. I'm sure your next question will be "well are your scales certified' for trade and the answer is "they are not". I'm not selling anything at this point so I don't need them to be certified and sealed. If I go back to selling something down the road then I will take care of that. However, they are in great shape and more than accurate for what I'm doing. I've weighed various combinations so I do have a base line to work from. Again, properly adjust the weight distribution hitch and drive safely down the road.
One of the 'off road' features on the F150 is a nice app on the dash that shows you in degrees how much the truck is leaning both side to side and front to rear. The proper set up of an equalizer (have you ever installed and set one up... I've done hundreds of them!) requires you to start with both the tow vehicle and the trailer to be towed sitting level on level ground. When you're done setting it all up everything should still be level. For years and years we had to measure the before and after heights but with the graphic on the dash I can just set it to 00' and be as close or closer than you can get with a tape measure.
Ok, let's get this through your head...
my trailer is not overloaded...
my pickup is not overloaded plus the combo of the two has excellent braking capacity. No problems here...
how about on your end...
can you say the same for your combo?
I guess maybe you should see if you can get a job with the state police as a weighmaster then you could put all your half vast knowledge to good use!
Are there overloaded pickups and trailers out on the road...
yes there are and I see them almost every time we're out on the road. Maybe you should take to worrying about all of those and forget the fixation you've developed on me and my stuff. It's unhealthy to say the least. You really do need to seek the proper medical consultation!!!