fickman
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I plan to get the following weights for sure:
1) Loaded TV ready for camping with passengers - nothing hooked up
2) Loaded combined setup ready for camping - each axle on its own scale?
Do you also get the TT by itself without the TV attached? You just unhitch right there at the scale? There is a Pilot truck stop near me, but I think that it's the only place close enough to consider doing this. I just don't want to hold everything up for an hour while I unhitch, weigh, rehitch, etc.
Anything else I'm missing? Looks like they charge $8 for the first weigh then $1-2 for a "check" weigh - do you do the check weigh for every measurement, or do you use it to get a cheap 2nd configuration?
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edenfeld
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First, don't worry about holding anyone up. Thats what the scales are for.
You should at least have the TV on one scale and the trailer on another. Get one weight hooked up. Then just drop the tongue jack to take weight off TV and disconnect weight bars. Then get another weight.
These two weights will tell you all you need.
You'll have your TV and TT weight. By subtracting first TV weight from second you'll get tongue weight.
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Check out Section 3 of the RVing FAQ. You'll find links to lots of great information.
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fickman
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Bearnkat wrote:Check out Section 3 of the RVing FAQ. You'll find links to lots of great information.
Thanks. . . this is the one with what I was looking for.
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skipnchar
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Surely it doesn't take you an hour to unhitch and hitch back up again. I stopped in Tennissee and weighed both hitched and unhitched and it took me fifteen minutes total. Good luck Skip
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fickman
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skipnchar wrote:Surely it doesn't take you an hour to unhitch and hitch back up again. I stopped in Tennissee and weighed both hitched and unhitched and it took me fifteen minutes total. Good luck Skip
It should be under 20 minutes for everything. . . but I know myself too well. . . the trucks will start lining up behind me to go next. . . then I'll start to panic and try to hurry. . . then the sweat will start to bead off of my forehead. . . then what could've been a quick disconnect/reconnect will go horribly wrong - I'll back up crooked and miss the ball or drive forward with the tongue jack down all while imagining the truckers laughing it up or thinking, "Geez - I'm going to be late getting back on the road because this joker with a pickup truck and a TT thinks he belongs on the big kid playground."
They'll probably form a little amphitheater type semi-circle to watch. . . one of them record the entire ordeal with his video phone and post it on YouTube. . . then somebody on Rv.net will start a new thread with the title, "Ridiculous RVer give us a bad name at the truck stop." At this point, I'll refuse to identify myself and respond to the post with snide comments until somebody looks at my profile and recognizes the pictures of the rig. . . at which point I'll lose my "Full Member" status and the mods will relegate me to only posting in the "Beginning RV" section.
I've seen it a million times.
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FordMastertech
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Weight the whole rig with the tow vehicle on 2 different pads and the trailer on the last pad. Then pull it around back drop the trailer then just weigh the tow vehicle. You need to go in to the office to get your first weight slip before you can get a reweigh. With some simple math you can figure out the weights.
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We weighed ours fully loaded with my wife in the cab of the truck on our way headed camping. I stopped again a few weeks later with the truck empty and weighed it by itself.
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fickman wrote:It should be under 20 minutes for everything. . . but I know myself too well. . . the trucks will start lining up behind me to go next. . . then I'll start to panic and try to hurry. . . then the sweat will start to bead off of my forehead. . . then what could've been a quick disconnect/reconnect will go horribly wrong - I'll back up crooked and miss the ball or drive forward with the tongue jack down all while imagining the truckers laughing it up or thinking, "Geez - I'm going to be late getting back on the road because this joker with a pickup truck and a TT thinks he belongs on the big kid playground."
They'll probably form a little amphitheater type semi-circle to watch. . . one of them record the entire ordeal with his video phone and post it on YouTube. . . then somebody on Rv.net will start a new thread with the title, "Ridiculous RVer give us a bad name at the truck stop." At this point, I'll refuse to identify myself and respond to the post with snide comments until somebody looks at my profile and recognizes the pictures of the rig. . . at which point I'll lose my "Full Member" status and the mods will relegate me to only posting in the "Beginning RV" section.
I've seen it a million times.
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fickman
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Rubiranch wrote:We weighed ours fully loaded with my wife in the cab of the truck on our way headed camping. I stopped again a few weeks later with the truck empty and weighed it by itself.
I just thought of something! Weigh it fully loaded with the wife in the cab and ready to camp, then hit the button again when she goes in to the store to get a snack. . . see if she's been lying to you or if she's messed with the calibration of the scale at home!!!
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