Does anybody know how much weight should be on the tougue. The boat, motor and extra gear weights 2780lbs and has 360lbs on the tongue, is this too much. The tires don’t look well after about 5,000 miles.
Thanks for the help,
Schulzee 
You generally want 10-15% for tongue weight. I would check the weight rating on your tires. If the tires aren’t rated high enough they will wear prematurely.
Shoreland’r has an excellent website with much information on boat trailers.
http://www.shorelander.com/pages/forum/f_trstep3.html
Here is an excerpt from the above page:
To determine proper tongue weight, total the package weight (boat with fuel/battery, motor with maximum horsepower, and trailer) and multiply it by 6% on single axles and 5% on tandem axle trailers. ShoreLand’r suggests that tongue weight may be acceptable in a 5-7% range.
I had to move my axel about 15” forward to get the recommended 6% tongue weight — it made a world of difference in ease of towing.
Dave Gulczinski
How would one find out how much their trailer wieghs in the twin cities? I’m going to start towing with my car soon, and I would really like to know the total trailer weight. I guess I can figure out witht the tougue weight it myself.
mn-rst-rider all you have to do is go to any gravel pit i work at the one in lakeville aggregate industies and run across the scale just run in the office and ask if it’s ok i’m sure they will not have a problem with it just do it later in the evening 5pm or so or on saturday morning i still have to run mine accross to figure it out but, i think i need a new trailer cause i have 300 lbs. of tongue weight and it still pulls on the reciever.
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mn-rst-rider all you have to do is go to any gravel pit i work at the one in lakeville aggregate industies and run across the scale just run in the office and ask if it’s ok i’m sure they will not have a problem with it just do it later in the evening 5pm or so or on saturday morning i still have to run mine accross to figure it out but, i think i need a new trailer cause i have 300 lbs. of tongue weight and it still pulls on the reciever.
Cool I believe you work less than a minute away from me 
I’ll have to drop by sometime this week. Thanks for the idea 
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