Tried explaining tongue weight to a guy that just got a camper. At the end of the day it doesn't matter what antisway load distribution stuff you buy. You can't pull without proper tongue weight
Many people have no idea how to recover from such a situation. Yes floor it and trailer brakes if you have them. Of not floor it and when straight coast.
Congratulations Sam! I'm glad mother and baby are doing well. Those clips at the beginning of the video are why I prefer 5th wheels as far as travel trailers go. Plus people forget the rake of the trailer and the tow vehicle. I also prefer goosenecks over bumper pulls however that's not always an option. Airbags make a huge difference also. I'll never tow without them again.
Congratulations on your newborn! Holy crap the first few min are EPIC!!!!! Great Vid man!! As a crane operator with a CDL this is priceless advice and instruction!
Yes sir. Ive been hauling our newhollands around loaded forwards for 31 years. Thats the way grandpa and my dad taught me. Like watching your videos. Keep up the good work.
Congratulations on the baby . Some of what those rv trailer people don't think about is the cross winds that come off us commercial trucks when they have taken all the fresh water out of the tanks which are in the front and now have grey water in the rear little cross wind on the tail and away they go
One thing I always watched for when loading the skidsteer facing forward, even one the smaller trailers we had was to see the actual weight transfer as the balance transferred from the tail over the trailer axles and then onto the hitch. As long as you see that transfer and still have room ahead of you then you don’t need to load the machine backwards.
In my nick of the woods everyone loads skidsteers forward. Didn't even know there was controversy about it. Yes just drive forward until the weight transfers.
Congratulations Sam on the little guy! I hope Taylor and he are doing ok, my little guy is 22 now and yes the times fly! Take time to learn your new as Dad...it is new a and great experience.
Congrats daddy! Being a dad is awesome. We had a pallet pusher at my last job just for that reason. When I loaded someone I asked where they wanted it and made sure they had tongue weight.
Congrats on your son! Happy for you both and I am sure your dad is stoked to be a grandpa! I have never had a problem with your loading placement. You are far wiser than your age Sam.
Loved the forklift operator story at the end. As a former semi-truck flatbed driver and current gooseneck flatbed owner, I can definitely relate. Most forklift drivers are not truck operators. I say operators and not drivers because there’s a HUGE difference. Most forklift drivers only want you out the gate so they can go home or go on break and never give your safety or anyone else’s a second thought.
Congrats on the baby! I also haul a TL12 facing forward. Sometimes with a bucket other times with a rock picker. With a 24 foot bumper pull trailer it goes on far enough to get ample tongue weight. Who wants to mess with loading a machine with a turbo backwards and having to tape up the exhaust anyways.
If your trailer starts to sway, no matter what happens, DON'T hit the vehicle brakes. Apply the trailer brake while romping on the throttle. You can usually pull the sway out. That will settle it down.
One advantage to loading the rear first even with a attachment on the front is road debri, salt, snow, rain etc won’t be entering the cab, garfing up the interior of the cab. Love your videos!!
Congratulations you guys and welcome Callahan. Your videos are always informative and entertaining😂, that last camper with two loose propane tanks flopping around was cringe worthy😳🙄. Thanks for sharing Sam👍🏻👍🏻👍🏻🇺🇸
Man or man I love that party mode truck😎🤘🏼Nice video about tongue weight and properly loading and congratulations to you and Taylor on your new baby boy!!!
I have that exact diamond C trailer that carries my skid steer every day. We load forward but have 2 buckets on the machine and a set of forks on the front of the trailer. Have never had any sway problems but we load pretty far forward.
Congrats Mr Sam to you and Yours. Good tidbits of info always. We were always taught that (tongue weight) it's funny round here (east central florida) got one of the biggest land learning contractors does his "smaller" pulling with the Kubota , forget which one but it's DEFINITELY WAY TOO HEAVY to pull it with his tundra (shocks Completely compressed) 👀😲🤦🏼♂️
All good information. Had a very near identical story with a pallet of water in a dump trailer pretty much had to beg the guy to use another pallet and shove it as far forward as he could reach. Also if your skid steer has a front door load it backwards it’s 1200.00 dollars vs 70.00
I was following a pickup hauling a 16ft. stock trailer with a huge bull as the only cargo. The bull was facing forward and decided he wanted to look at where he had been. He sat down as he pawed the side of the trailer to turn around, I said he was huge. Half way around the back wheels of the pickup went straight up in the air. The driver did his best to keep the truck and trailer straight (all this at about 30 - 35 MPH), but the pickup was no match. The pickup laid over on its side with the trailer still on its wheels, but the bull had had enough and busted out the back gate. No injuries but the Highway Patrol had fun rounding up the bull and getting a wrecker to put the pickup back on its wheels. Take care of mom and the boy after all she did most of the work.
I’ve never loaded a skid steer backwards other than ounce when it had extra weights on the back and no front attachment other than that I’ve always loaded them forwards. On gooseneck or bumper pull. On my gooseneck I just spin around on the deck and go down forward
Also SUPER IMPORTANT: have the correct drop on your receiver hitch :) Ultimately your truck will sit level and your trailer axles will carry the same amount of weight. Spend $5 at your local CAT scale and have all axles weighted, it could save your life! I have found moving my (old, small Bobcat 743) Skidsteeer less then a foot forward/ back on my trailer can make a HUGE difference in ride/ handling. YMMV
Congratulations on the birth of your son and your wife is healthy. Enjoy the time since the years go by very fast. I have one suggestion: Make a diary for your son of the events for each month and include pictures (hard copy, since media changes) and make a new one for each year he lives at home. Do the same for all your children and eventually your grandchildren. My children are all getting older with some in their 40's; the time goes by very fast, especially when you are busy.
Congratulations pops!! And don't apologize when you school someone, that could have saved someone life. Question... where's life adventure guy..? He was doing good. Cheers love the sound of that exhaust.
i agree with you about loading the machine forward , buy a trailer long enough for the machine to fit. I have an issue with the twisted safety chains when hooked to the 3500, while dot regs don't specifically address it, if it were done on a load securement chain it would be a violation. A safety chain is subject to the same deformation as a load securement when put under tension so it would have the same tendency to break for that reason I wouldn't twist them.
And if you can’t redistribute load. Slow the heck down. Talk to those folks wrecked. Every one will say it acted up a few times before they lost it. The few times I have too much toward rear. Say hauling 20’ bridge planking on 16’ trailer. Negative tongue weight. Added junk to get a bit of tongue. (But still liftable by hand). By limiting speed to 45mph. 20 mile no problem.
I was hauling a car home when two tie-downs broke. The car rolled back and caused the weight to shift off of the hitch and lift the back of the truck. At that point, I lost complete control of the truck and trailer, I was guard rail to guard rail for what seemed to be miles. The only thing I could do was hit the gas and straighten it out then try to slow down. It took about ten tries to get stopped. So if your trailer starts to sway gas it and use the brake controller. By the way, the brake controller blew the fuze at some point on the way home before this happened. Had to change my shorts after that!
Or just hit the throttle works the same way as a jackkniife. You should never use a trailer brake like like that, you all just lucked out! Most of these issues stem from lack of experience and/ or drivers who think just because they have a pickup and a diesel engine they can haul lol. Safe travels to you all either way and please don't wreck in front of me, my kw isn't paid off yet lol
I have been trying to explain to people for years that they have to balance their trailers properly. It is astounding the number of people who don't know that you need hitch weight to be able to keep a trailer under control. I almost always hear, "But it makes my lights shine too high if I have to drive after dark." I will typically try to explain that with a bumper pull trailer that is kinda normal and if they are that concerned about towing after dark they should plan their trip so that situation can be avoided. But most of all make sure the trailer is loaded properly and make sure the tow vehicle can handle the job! Great explanation on your part, this subject gets ignored way too often and usually ends very badly.
Congratulations and my best to Taylor and you. Callahan the Mulcher man. Sounds good. My uncle had me driving tractor at 4 years old so you don't have long to wait for a three man team. Because I load my trailer to the gills, I got a tongue scale. Loaded my trailer wanting about 1500 pounds of tongue weight. I have a good guesser. Got done and weighted the tongue. 1500 right on the nose. A weight distributing hitch is really necessary for that sort of weight on a bumper pull. Setting it up takes at least a whole day. Each corner of the truck should settle the same amount hitched. And the trailer should be level. I have a Reese Dual Cam. So you start with a good guess. Hitch drive around turn both directions then end with the truck and trailer straight. On the dual cam you have to adjust the length of the cam arms too. Adjust go again, adjust go again adjust etc. And of course you have to have the correct load bars. So for mine I have 1500 pound load bars.
Good video. The ball itself is rated for the load but the square tube hitch the ball is mounted on is not. That one is rated for maybe 7,000 lb and 700lb tongue weight. It should be solid cast rated for at least 16K. You are very educated in towing. Nice job. Congrats on the baby
Those RV wrecks looked mainly sidewind related to me, as they just came around semis and by looking at the landscape looks like windy environments. But people never believe the weight of the mulcher heads, always funny when you show them the nameplate.
Congratulations Pops. Two things - You tow with real trucks, a forged receiver with 1 1/4" ball shank is for real trucks. ( I broke the 1" thick x 3" wide flat bar on a brand name hitch) . Second - stabilizers are very important on bumper pull livestock trailers because your load can move. Divider panels help but you have to be ready for the whole herd crowding the gate and dividers at the worst possible time
I have a tongue weight scale I use, good up to 2000 lbs. I tell you what, when your tw is right, the rig is rock solid. Especially with weight distribution. I've never had sway and I pray I never do. Seeing those clips gives me a cold sweat
@@gasolinediesel972 best thing you can do is hit your manual brake controller button. i wrecked a truck from trailer sway, letting off doesn't help once it gets going
“You actually own the machine”!😄 So true! There are so many dudes with 1500 or 2500s that rock the look, but are “All Hat, No Cattle”. 🤔 My setup: Displaced Yankee out of New Jersey in Kentucky. 2018 RAM 3500 G56 upgraded clutch SRW, 14k Dexter axle trailer & GEHL RT 210 with Blue Diamond Hydraulic Brush Cutter for my 30 acres & guns. Trailers & loading is CRITICAL, unless you are a keyboard warrior.🤔
Congratulations! It makes me wonder how much extra energy (and extra emissions created) we use to make all the electric vehicles and emissions crap to the emissions we actually reduce! 🤔
Dont forget the coal plant which likely supplies electricity to charge, as well as the energy required to recycle the battery end of use, comes again from a coal plant. They need to stop barking up that tree -- whatever is up there, will soon be within reach when it is cut down!
Ground to wheel efficiency is superior on electric cars even with coal powered plants. I love how dipshits talk as if we have to be done with electric optimization before starting to use it. Absolutely asinine
Ran into kinda the same issue. Was going to pick up my new to me 3rd Gen with a burrowed double axle tilt deck equipment trailer. Long story short couldn’t load the truck nose first cause once front end got far enough it was going to crush my bed when it tilted. So I had to back it on cummins engine way behind axles so long story short towed it at less then 40mph
Your DIY store story brought me to remember I guy doing the same thing to me several years ago. I had barrowed a friends trailer to pick up some sheetrock. Guy loading it the load on the back half. Had an actual argument with him convincing him that it was seriously unsafe.
One reason some guys load in reverse is to prevent tip over. You don't always have the ideal flat loading/unloading surface for your trailer. If you're loading forward and start tip tip over backwards, nothing is gonna stop you. If you load in reverse, the skid will not tip over the attachment. I know experienced guys will not have this issue, but some might.
When towing a long flat sided RV be careful passing a semi..the aerodynamics from the semi can and will blow you into a crash.. I've passed thousands of them on my motorcycle.. I can feel the wind being pushed around and the forces can be amazing..
I've always loaded skidsteers forward and never had an issue. Bobcat 850 with just a bucket is over 11,000lbs and the trailer pulls and handles just fine
Love the fact that you’re trying to keep people safe. Bless you for that.
Tried explaining tongue weight to a guy that just got a camper. At the end of the day it doesn't matter what antisway load distribution stuff you buy. You can't pull without proper tongue weight
If your trailer starts wagging, gun the fuel and apply the trailer breaks. Then reduce the fuel while trailer slows you down. Safe travels
Many people have no idea how to recover from such a situation. Yes floor it and trailer brakes if you have them. Of not floor it and when straight coast.
Was just about to say the same thing brother.
Thanks for the information. I’m new to hauling a trailer and I am looking to buy a camper. This will be handy to know.
Brakes. Breaks. Two very different words.
@@chooch1995 never a good day when the two words get combined either lol
Love the video just wish we could see what’s going on in stead of seeing a big word GONE and can’t see
I would guarantee that not one of these trailers had stabilising equipment installed.
Congratulations Sam! I'm glad mother and baby are doing well.
Those clips at the beginning of the video are why I prefer 5th wheels as far as travel trailers go. Plus people forget the rake of the trailer and the tow vehicle. I also prefer goosenecks over bumper pulls however that's not always an option. Airbags make a huge difference also. I'll never tow without them again.
Glad to hear your baby boy is doing well! Speedy recovery! 🙏
Congratulations on your newborn!
Holy crap the first few min are EPIC!!!!! Great Vid man!! As a crane operator with a CDL this is priceless advice and instruction!
Congratulations on the wee guy. Happy to hear everyone is healthy and doing well.
Yes sir. Ive been hauling our newhollands around loaded forwards for 31 years. Thats the way grandpa and my dad taught me. Like watching your videos. Keep up the good work.
Congratulations on the birth of y’all son, glad to hear mother and son doing well!!
Congratulations on the baby . Some of what those rv trailer people don't think about is the cross winds that come off us commercial trucks when they have taken all the fresh water out of the tanks which are in the front and now have grey water in the rear little cross wind on the tail and away they go
Congratulations on the kid!! Glad everyone is doing well.
One thing I always watched for when loading the skidsteer facing forward, even one the smaller trailers we had was to see the actual weight transfer as the balance transferred from the tail over the trailer axles and then onto the hitch. As long as you see that transfer and still have room ahead of you then you don’t need to load the machine backwards.
That's commonsense
In my nick of the woods everyone loads skidsteers forward. Didn't even know there was controversy about it. Yes just drive forward until the weight transfers.
@@Average1212 agreed. I could drive around a month of sunday and never see a skid loaded loaded backwards.
I’ll always back on no tipping issues
Why not always back on? Reduces the chance of rock chips I always figured
Congratulations Sam on the little guy! I hope Taylor and he are doing ok, my little guy is 22 now and yes the times fly! Take time to learn your new as Dad...it is new a and great experience.
Congratulations on the birth of your son! Welcome to fatherhood!
Congratulations on your new little family member, Taylor doing okay 👌, congrats to both of you.
Congratulations to your entire family! God bless you all. Take care of your wife!
Thanks Sam, Great video. GOD BLESS ALL Y'ALL
Congratulations on the birth of your son! Forklift operators always crack me up when they don't want to push the pallet in with the forks!
Congratulations To you and your lovely lady on the creation of a full family unit.
Congrats daddy! Being a dad is awesome. We had a pallet pusher at my last job just for that reason. When I loaded someone I asked where they wanted it and made sure they had tongue weight.
Congratulations on the little boy, make sure and take time to enjoy!!
My guy, by far you have to be in my top 3 favorite guys on RUclips!! Hell yeah. Thanks for always keeping it 100%!
Congrats on your son! Happy for you both and I am sure your dad is stoked to be a grandpa! I have never had a problem with your loading placement. You are far wiser than your age Sam.
Thanks for that information. Kind of made me think a little bit about different scenarios.
Congrats on the growing family and thanks for great videos!
Congratulations on the new baby boy,... I have a T76 Bobcat and I always load it forward just add some tongue weight on the ole Cummins 6.7
Loved the forklift operator story at the end. As a former semi-truck flatbed driver and current gooseneck flatbed owner, I can definitely relate. Most forklift drivers are not truck operators. I say operators and not drivers because there’s a HUGE difference. Most forklift drivers only want you out the gate so they can go home or go on break and never give your safety or anyone else’s a second thought.
Congrats on the baby! I also haul a TL12 facing forward. Sometimes with a bucket other times with a rock picker. With a 24 foot bumper pull trailer it goes on far enough to get ample tongue weight. Who wants to mess with loading a machine with a turbo backwards and having to tape up the exhaust anyways.
Hell yeah, brother! Really good video. Welcome to fatherhood! There is nothing else like it...greatest feeling in the world.
Congratulations Sam I hope Mom and baby are doing well. God bless
Happy for you guys , now we want to see the little fella.
Hooray 😃 Callahan is finally here. Congrats you two
Congrats on the baby boy!
If your trailer starts to sway, no matter what happens, DON'T hit the vehicle brakes. Apply the trailer brake while romping on the throttle. You can usually pull the sway out. That will settle it down.
👍🏻👍🏻
Congratulations on the new addition to your family.
One advantage to loading the rear first even with a attachment on the front is road debri, salt, snow, rain etc won’t be entering the cab, garfing up the interior of the cab. Love your videos!!
Don't have to worry about that if you have an enclosed cab
You can always get a newer enclosed trailer
*bobcat* not trailer
but then you have the issue of is there enough weight on ball
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@@mrfordfairmont I don't think that trumps proper weight distribution...which i think was the point of the content.
Congratulations you guys and welcome Callahan. Your videos are always informative and entertaining😂, that last camper with two loose propane tanks flopping around was cringe worthy😳🙄. Thanks for sharing Sam👍🏻👍🏻👍🏻🇺🇸
Man or man I love that party mode truck😎🤘🏼Nice video about tongue weight and properly loading and congratulations to you and Taylor on your new baby boy!!!
I have that exact diamond C trailer that carries my skid steer every day. We load forward but have 2 buckets on the machine and a set of forks on the front of the trailer.
Have never had any sway problems but we load pretty far forward.
Awesome congrats for the new addition. Keep doing the vids, they are great. Good job young fella, carry on.
Congrats Mr Sam to you and Yours. Good tidbits of info always. We were always taught that (tongue weight) it's funny round here (east central florida) got one of the biggest land learning contractors does his "smaller" pulling with the Kubota , forget which one but it's DEFINITELY WAY TOO HEAVY to pull it with his tundra (shocks Completely compressed) 👀😲🤦🏼♂️
Hell yeah Brother! Congratulations on your son!
All good information. Had a very near identical story with a pallet of water in a dump trailer pretty much had to beg the guy to use another pallet and shove it as far forward as he could reach. Also if your skid steer has a front door load it backwards it’s 1200.00 dollars vs 70.00
I noticed the cargo trays on the back of the wrecked travel trailers too.
Congratulations on the little one🤙🤙 Side note got my mug and shirt the other day. Enjoying both
Congratulations on the little guy!!! 👶 🎊🎈🍾
Keeping it real as always -- Stay safe and productive out there
I was following a pickup hauling a 16ft. stock trailer with a huge bull as the only cargo. The bull was facing forward and decided he wanted to look at where he had been. He sat down as he pawed the side of the trailer to turn around, I said he was huge. Half way around the back wheels of the pickup went straight up in the air. The driver did his best to keep the truck and trailer straight (all this at about 30 - 35 MPH), but the pickup was no match. The pickup laid over on its side with the trailer still on its wheels, but the bull had had enough and busted out the back gate. No injuries but the Highway Patrol had fun rounding up the bull and getting a wrecker to put the pickup back on its wheels. Take care of mom and the boy after all she did most of the work.
I’ve never loaded a skid steer backwards other than ounce when it had extra weights on the back and no front attachment other than that I’ve always loaded them forwards. On gooseneck or bumper pull. On my gooseneck I just spin around on the deck and go down forward
Congratulations on new baby Sam Taylor! V Belt Jr.
Congratulations to you and Taylor!
Also SUPER IMPORTANT: have the correct drop on your receiver hitch :) Ultimately your truck will sit level and your trailer axles will carry the same amount of weight. Spend $5 at your local CAT scale and have all axles weighted, it could save your life! I have found moving my (old, small Bobcat 743) Skidsteeer less then a foot forward/ back on my trailer can make a HUGE difference in ride/ handling. YMMV
Congrats on your son Sam!!! Nothing like it. I have my 4th kid coming this summer.
Congratulations on the birth of your son and your wife is healthy. Enjoy the time since the years go by very fast. I have one suggestion: Make a diary for your son of the events for each month and include pictures (hard copy, since media changes) and make a new one for each year he lives at home. Do the same for all your children and eventually your grandchildren. My children are all getting older with some in their 40's; the time goes by very fast, especially when you are busy.
Congratulations pops!!
And don't apologize when you school someone, that could have saved someone life. Question... where's life adventure guy..? He was doing good. Cheers love the sound of that exhaust.
We load our t250 in our 14 foot dump trailer forward with a dirt bucket never has a single issue perfect distribution
Haha well put. I don't get it. Team forward/team backward. None of that matters if your weight isn't distributed properly over the axles...
Congratulations on your new little mechanic!!!!
Congratulations on the new baby,
i agree with you about loading the machine forward , buy a trailer long enough for the machine to fit. I have an issue with the twisted safety chains when hooked to the 3500, while dot regs don't specifically address it, if it were done on a load securement chain it would be a violation. A safety chain is subject to the same deformation as a load securement when put under tension so it would have the same tendency to break for that reason I wouldn't twist them.
They will drag on the ground if I don’t twist them
Double the links up with a wire tie. If the chains are needed I don't think that wire tie would be a problem.
Congrats on the Little Guy!
@@VBELTandSON zip tie the links to take up slack, then they still do the job properly.
LOVE your idea of a home-made greased shim. I hope it’s ok, but I’m going embrace your idea and make one for all my trucks. 4:30ish.
Congrats on the little one great video thanks for sharing have a great day and stay safe out there
Congrats on the little guy!!
Congratulations on your new baby!
Congrats on Callahan! Like the name it's unique and not something off the wall or mainstream 👍
Steep ramps will cause the bobcat to dump backwards-that why its loaded backwards-so the attatchment creates a roll stopper,my experience.
If the tail is wagging the dog. You grab the brake control and stomb the skinny pedal. You will thank me later
Works every time
And if you can’t redistribute load. Slow the heck down. Talk to those folks wrecked. Every one will say it acted up a few times before they lost it. The few times I have too much toward rear. Say hauling 20’ bridge planking on 16’ trailer. Negative tongue weight. Added junk to get a bit of tongue. (But still liftable by hand). By limiting speed to 45mph. 20 mile no problem.
I was hauling a car home when two tie-downs broke. The car rolled back and caused the weight to shift off of the hitch and lift the back of the truck. At that point, I lost complete control of the truck and trailer, I was guard rail to guard rail for what seemed to be miles. The only thing I could do was hit the gas and straighten it out then try to slow down. It took about ten tries to get stopped. So if your trailer starts to sway gas it and use the brake controller. By the way, the brake controller blew the fuze at some point on the way home before this happened. Had to change my shorts after that!
Or just hit the throttle works the same way as a jackkniife. You should never use a trailer brake like like that, you all just lucked out! Most of these issues stem from lack of experience and/ or drivers who think just because they have a pickup and a diesel engine they can haul lol. Safe travels to you all either way and please don't wreck in front of me, my kw isn't paid off yet lol
Just ease of the damn gas pedal and slow down why the hell everyone is in a hurry is beyond me wow its unbelievable how dumb people are.
congratulations on the baby!
Congratulations on the new baby boy.
You hit the nail on the head
Congrats on little guy. Put us a link for what Taylor wants and we can get gifts.
Congratulations to you both.
Lil Callahan cool home boy. Rock the AC/DC for the boy. He will love it. Good job Dad. Love n respect to y'all.
Congratulations on the healthy boy!!
Congratulations on the baby boy brother🇺🇸
I have been trying to explain to people for years that they have to balance their trailers properly. It is astounding the number of people who don't know that you need hitch weight to be able to keep a trailer under control. I almost always hear, "But it makes my lights shine too high if I have to drive after dark." I will typically try to explain that with a bumper pull trailer that is kinda normal and if they are that concerned about towing after dark they should plan their trip so that situation can be avoided. But most of all make sure the trailer is loaded properly and make sure the tow vehicle can handle the job! Great explanation on your part, this subject gets ignored way too often and usually ends very badly.
Congratulations and my best to Taylor and you. Callahan the Mulcher man. Sounds good. My uncle had me driving tractor at 4 years old so you don't have long to wait for a three man team. Because I load my trailer to the gills, I got a tongue scale. Loaded my trailer wanting about 1500 pounds of tongue weight. I have a good guesser. Got done and weighted the tongue. 1500 right on the nose. A weight distributing hitch is really necessary for that sort of weight on a bumper pull. Setting it up takes at least a whole day. Each corner of the truck should settle the same amount hitched. And the trailer should be level. I have a Reese Dual Cam. So you start with a good guess. Hitch drive around turn both directions then end with the truck and trailer straight. On the dual cam you have to adjust the length of the cam arms too. Adjust go again, adjust go again adjust etc. And of course you have to have the correct load bars. So for mine I have 1500 pound load bars.
Good video. The ball itself is rated for the load but the square tube hitch the ball is mounted on is not. That one is rated for maybe 7,000 lb and 700lb tongue weight. It should be solid cast rated for at least 16K. You are very educated in towing. Nice job. Congrats on the baby
It’s not hollow. 22k rated hitch. And thank you
Watched it again, I was wrong. It is solid. Glad to see someone who understands all aspects of towing heavy loads correctly
Appreciate it
Those RV wrecks looked mainly sidewind related to me, as they just came around semis and by looking at the landscape looks like windy environments. But people never believe the weight of the mulcher heads, always funny when you show them the nameplate.
Congratulations Pops. Two things - You tow with real trucks, a forged receiver with 1 1/4" ball shank is for real trucks. ( I broke the 1" thick x 3" wide flat bar on a brand name hitch) . Second - stabilizers are very important on bumper pull livestock trailers because your load can move. Divider panels help but you have to be ready for the whole herd crowding the gate and dividers at the worst possible time
I have a tongue weight scale I use, good up to 2000 lbs. I tell you what, when your tw is right, the rig is rock solid. Especially with weight distribution. I've never had sway and I pray I never do. Seeing those clips gives me a cold sweat
If you start to sway, then you slow down, so many people try to speed up. Just let off of the throttle. No brakes.
@@gasolinediesel972 best thing you can do is hit your manual brake controller button. i wrecked a truck from trailer sway, letting off doesn't help once it gets going
@@TheSlywright Yes, I forgot to mention that. Letting off does help if the trailer isn't swaying very much.
“You actually own the machine”!😄 So true! There are so many dudes with 1500 or 2500s that rock the look, but are “All Hat, No Cattle”. 🤔 My setup: Displaced Yankee out of New Jersey in Kentucky. 2018 RAM 3500 G56 upgraded clutch SRW, 14k Dexter axle trailer & GEHL RT 210 with Blue Diamond Hydraulic Brush Cutter for my 30 acres & guns. Trailers & loading is CRITICAL, unless you are a keyboard warrior.🤔
Your German shepherd just waiting for you to play ball lol, congrats for y’all little one, thanks for the lesson, stay safe
we load our t190 foward too, and just a few hundred pds. more on tongue weight.
Congratulations! It makes me wonder how much extra energy (and extra emissions created) we use to make all the electric vehicles and emissions crap to the emissions we actually reduce! 🤔
Dont forget the coal plant which likely supplies electricity to charge, as well as the energy required to recycle the battery end of use, comes again from a coal plant. They need to stop barking up that tree -- whatever is up there, will soon be within reach when it is cut down!
Ground to wheel efficiency is superior on electric cars even with coal powered plants.
I love how dipshits talk as if we have to be done with electric optimization before starting to use it. Absolutely asinine
Congrats on y’all’s son. People don’t realize that the so caller 1/2 ton towable campers still require a 3/4 ton once they loaded down with everything
Ran into kinda the same issue. Was going to pick up my new to me 3rd Gen with a burrowed double axle tilt deck equipment trailer. Long story short couldn’t load the truck nose first cause once front end got far enough it was going to crush my bed when it tilted. So I had to back it on cummins engine way behind axles so long story short towed it at less then 40mph
Your DIY store story brought me to remember I guy doing the same thing to me several years ago.
I had barrowed a friends trailer to pick up some sheetrock. Guy loading it the load on the back half. Had an actual argument with him convincing him that it was seriously unsafe.
Congrats on the baby! ☮️
I don't have time to watch as there are cars the be hauled but preach brother!!!!!!!
Like you said with your machine there's no need to load backwards but it's a good idea with the majority of machines.
One reason some guys load in reverse is to prevent tip over. You don't always have the ideal flat loading/unloading surface for your trailer. If you're loading forward and start tip tip over backwards, nothing is gonna stop you. If you load in reverse, the skid will not tip over the attachment. I know experienced guys will not have this issue, but some might.
Congratulations on your little boy!
congrats on the baby!
I always load mine forward. It fits better that way. You just have to make sure that you are keeping good tongue weight. Like he said, load placement.
Congratulations on the baby boy.
When towing a long flat sided RV be careful passing a semi..the aerodynamics from the semi can and will blow you into a crash.. I've passed thousands of them on my motorcycle.. I can feel the wind being pushed around and the forces can be amazing..
I've always loaded skidsteers forward and never had an issue. Bobcat 850 with just a bucket is over 11,000lbs and the trailer pulls and handles just fine
Congratulations on the new addition.