William Boyd

Rich256 wrote:

> "351CJ" <351CJ@msn.com> wrote in message
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>>"Rich256" <nospam@nospam.net> wrote in message
>>news:T4PAf.284842$qk4.198687@bgtnsc05-news.ops.worldnet.att.net...
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>>>"Nehmo" <nehmo54@hotmail.com> wrote in message
>>>news:1137895163.229965.28440@z14g2000cwz.googlegroups.com...
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>>>>"Pull-behind" trailers are trailers that connect to the tow vehicle by
>>>>a ball (or other attaching arrangement) on the back of tow vehicle and
>>>>a trailer hitch on the tongue attached to the front of the frame of the
>>>>trailer. If the trailer is improperly-loaded into a tail-heavy
>>>>condition (in other words, the center of gravity is to the rear of the
>>>>center of the axles) arrangement, it will sway from side to side. But
>>>>why? Why would tail-heavy conditions cause such behavior? The weight on
>>>>the tongue would be negative, but I still can't understand the swaying
>>>>mechanism.
>>>>--
>>>> (||) Nehmo (||)
>>>
>>>Just having the weight behind the wheels in itself doesn't produce the
>>>sway.
>>>It allows amplification.
>>>
>>>Many things can get the sway started (wind, bumps in the road, passing
>>>vehicles) and once going the weight unbalance makes it more difficult to
>>>control.
>>>
>>>The trailer is like a pendelum hanging out behind the tow vehicle. The
>>>closer the weight is to the vehicle the easier it is to control. Try
>>>holding a board with a weight on it out in the wind. It's a lot easier
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> to
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>>>control if the weight is close in.
>>>
>>>The weight and length of the tow vehicle also comes into play. When a
>>>tail
>>>heavy pendelum starts to swing it will start controlling the tow
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> vehicle.
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>>>The flex of the tires adds more amplificaton.
>>>
>>>
>>>No matter what you do there is always possibility of sway. The amount
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> of
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>>>weight you put on the hitch is a compromise.
>>>Only total solution is to put all the weight on the tow vehicle and
>>>elimiate
>>>the trailer.
>>>
>>>
>>
>>By The Way,
>>
>>Amplification, this was the only reasonable response to your question...
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>>
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>
> Thinking about it a little more one could have a really long trailer that is
> very heavily loaded in the rear and you could pull it at very high speeds,
> with a short wheelbase vehicle, without any trouble. But only as long as
> there is no wind, no bumps or anything else to get it into a sway condition.
> But god help you if it begins to swing!!
>
> Nothing more frightening than having the trailer begin to do the steering.
>
>
I think the only way to correct the swaying is to reload the trailer
properly.

--
Bill P.
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