Towing a trailer can be dangerous with the wrong weight distribution
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- At least 60% of the load needs to be at the front of the trailer. If too much weight is at the back, it can swing out and you lose control of your vehicle.
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Well your first problem is using a mustang
A ford more like it
It is just for example!!!!!!!!
Even toy Fords are still unreliable junk. 😂😂😂
@@hollowaang5284 you wish!!!!!
Well said junk
Use a BMW and it will break before you could even hook up the trailer
This was perfect!!
Minion fart
@@RealAntek yea nice
Haha
😂😂😂
Hate when a giant man comes out of nowhere and pushes my trailer sideways.
😂😂
@@samsungphone9932 I don't even know what you just said to me.
It happened to me once.
@@VanquishMediaDE I'm sorry that happened to you.
It's really unbearable isn't it?
That's why good driving means also having the Attack on Titan equipment always at hand.
So you're saying I should distribute my drugs evenly throughout my vehicle?
Not the vehicle, you need them front and center while driving. What you'll want to do when towing the extra product behind you is to keep it even. Keep the merchandise from ending up all over the highway. Waste not want not.
Lol
This is the fbi
Yes
NOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO!!!
I am reporting you now.
With a trailer, a Mustang can hit more of the crowd. Genius.
It’s not the mustangs fault that edgy high schoolers can afford them
Lol
Your Humblest Emperor Sidious i think both
@@yourhumblestemperorsidious4152 The suspension is just trash. Camaros are also affordable but do not have the same kill count mustangs have.
Too soon
Nice demonstration. I get tired of trying to explain this to my friends.
@@monkeystrong42 at least twice a year. One of my friends had a trailer that was bad about walking so we cut the spring perches loose and moved them back 10". Worked great.
Get new friends.
@@wilkersonsmowershop8379 these fu*kers making fun of your friends and you say nothing?!
@@dontbeserious5153 cos it's true 😂
HDnoob lol I love how silence he is when people call his friends stupid. 😂😂
Is anyone else pissed off that he always catches the car
Some people just want to watch things burn
Yes I am very annoyed
Darien Charlton This is one of those times where I am one of them. Not the slightest bit ashamed of it either.
Ya
@@dariencharlton4773 Some people just want to watch the world burn***
I learned when I had 5 tons of stone in a dump truck and a trailer with a 3 ton excavator in tow. Poorly loaded and going to fast caused exactly the results shown in the video. Luckily there was little traffic and I was able to correct it safely. Still one of the scariest moments of my life.
3 years late but use the trailer brake controller, not the vehicle brakes, if this ever happens to anyone reading this. Ease into it and it will straighten you out and slow you down to where you can safely stop with the vehicle brakes. Always test your trailer breaks.
@apersonontheinternet8006 If I had known then what I know now!
As a new trailer owner, I found this very educational. A visual that will definitely stay with me. Thanks.
Interesting! Was following a car and caravan about 20 years ago on the M74 south of Glasgow, Scotland, and they started to waggle like this, they ended up crashing although not too serious. I always thought it was due to the lack of a stabilizer bar, but now I learned something.
When you think about it, it's really just a pendulum effect.
General rule is loading the higher % of the trailer weight slightly forward of the axle. The trailers tongue weight must be 10-15% of the entire loaded trailer weight. 500 lb tongue weight for a 5,000 lb loaded trailer.
Think smart, if your vehicles max towing capacity is 5,000 lbs don’t try more than 3,000. Get a bigger vehicle.
If your trailer is 2,000-3,000 lbs and your small pickups tow rating is 3,500 lbs don’t do it for anything other than dry days, short trips, and low speeds.
On wet days that load will push you through a stoplight.
If you tow regularly get a full sized truck, a 1500 or 150 minimum.
2500 or 250 is a safer choice.
Lastly if your towing don’t drive like your not, keep the speed under 60. Over that your just asking for it.
Or get trailer brakes and tow to the limit
Don't rely on general rules! Solve the actual physics instead and understand what is really going on!
I tow with a 2104 Lada (500kg towing capacity, bar rated for 750kg). Due to being a mad bastard who used to tow two trailers behind a Kenworth truck, maxing out at 64.5t, I have been known to load my little trailer up to 1,5t with bricks or building materials (all without exceeding the towball downforce maximum of 80kg). You don't want to go much faster than 30-40km/h, otherwise, if you hit a bump (and we've got plenty of those around here), you'll suddenly throw a couple of hundred kg onto the towball and it'll hit the ground. Just don't let the cops see you doing it.
Your last sentence implies this is wrong or stupid. Probably both.
Move the axle back to the correct position.
BOOM PROBLEM SOLVED
It isn’t about the axle location, it s about the weight distribution *relative* to the axle.
If the trailer’s center of gravity is behind the axle, this is the result.
@@Vessekx kinda hard to put the center of gravity behind the axle if it is further back. I never saw any trailers where the axle was halfway.
Chris W, it isn’t hard at all. Just put the heavy stuff at the back of the trailer, and the center of gravity will back. Put enough weight at the back of the trailer, and the center of gravity will be behind the axle.
Seriously, this really *isn’t* a difficult concept to understand.
@@chrisw5742 This is for travel trailers and the like. Semis are different.
Awesome example!! I wish you would've put the weight over the axal.
Axle
This helps nothing in the explanation of weight distribution. But well designed trailers do not have the axel place evenly front to back length of the trailor. And just get a double axel...
I don't used my car to haul on the first place...... That what professional are for.
Axle
Who's axal
Knowing this is very very very VERY important. I saw a terrible accident happen recently due to this exact thing. I was following a trailer and saw that wobble and instantly knew what was wrong. A few miles later and they rolled over. It was terrible to witness, so please be careful everybody.
Yeah same thing happened in front of me about a decade ago. I saw a Trailer fall down on a bike and the guy's leg was crushed beneath the trailer. I really pity that guy and still think about him. He was in his early 20s and it was very unfortunate to lose a leg at that age
I work in construction and when younger fabricated covered trailers for race cars. Every once in awhile I will show this video to somebody. I believe that every man woman and child should be shown in this demonstration at a young age. It would save lives.
Same concept in towing double trailers! 7 years I Drove Doubles and Triples for Fed-Ed Ground! Heavy trailer always is first!
Cool to know. I thought of driving for them. I hauled for prime 2.5 years, got out & back in masonry. I might go back to driving truck though
@@bricklayerguntruckn just keep mixing mortar and let the pros drive 😂
You're right but there is a huge difference between B train and A train set up and quite frankly B train is far superior in every way except for turning radius.
You could probably touch the ass end of the third pup with your hood mirrors if you cranked the wheel over enough.
It isnt safe because it is pulled by a mustang...
Edit: it will crash into curb, crowd, and others. Not because of the trailer
Geffrey Nugroho xd
We have a russian mustang driver who crashed by our church.
@@spartankongcountry6799 who lets a Russian own a mustang? Two wrongs don't make a right.
@@mse2130 You're right 😂
Fake, the Mustang didn’t hit a crowd
Nice copy.
engrtun wym
Real, I'm tired of these fake comments
Great video. I learned this the hard way when I was 20 and the plant I was all hauling slide to the back of the trailer. Whipped and lifted the back of my pickup off the ground. No wreck but scary.
Lesson learned… Secure your load.
I wanted to see the car flip over.
Disappointed 😩
Thank you for this I accidentally Stumble on this channel but I glad I did cause I’m a new owner of a 18 foot trailer and I was going to put the car in the back of the trailer but I’m so glad I saw this thank you
Thank God ... 11 months past ... how was the move ?
Well, this is a year ago now, but where is the axel?
He dead
OP DO YOU COPY OVER!?
How was it big man
Well illustrated how simple overloading a trailer at wrong point makes for a tail happy trailer
I really liked that I could watch the whole video from the thumbnail preplay thing. I really hate when videos take forever and just drone on and on, but this kept the info, short, and to the point. Thanks! Very neat vid.
Thanks! This is one of the more useful videos I've watched on TH-cam in a while!
Wauw. This is good stuff. Should be mandatory video-material when getting your E achter B driver's license (as we say in The Netherlands). Thanks for teaching me.
Now things like THIS is what treadmills were really designed for.
I've witnessed 2 fatalities with this same scenario. One with a small pickup truck and the other with a standard size. The trailers looked to be overloaded and whipped the trucks around on the interstate like a rag doll. It's no joke!
You can have the perfect weight distribution and still get a sway. It happened to me taking car parts to the Canfield swap meet. Turns out the wheel bearings needed repacked and tightened up. When I went through school for diesel tech, the instructor said that if a trailer started swaying to gradually speed up to put pressure on the joint and pull it straight. He failed to say what happens when you run out of loud pedal and it's still swaying. I got lucky and got it stopped before anything bad happened.
Great demonstration thanks
so i don’t even have a drivers liscense or a trailer, why am i watching this.
Same here
Kareem Almond license*
It’s good to know if you ever drive with a trailer, I suppose. I haul boats and shit around and this is important.
I dont even have a car😂
In case you ever do, now you know!
Also, if you get the death wobbles do NOT slam on the breaks. Gently throttle out.
Then why tf are u here
This is a very good demonstration of weight distribution and how wait can affect a towing situation
My Ford Ranger has trailer sway control. I thought it was a gimmick Ford introduced until the car trailer i hired started swaying and within seconds the abs compensated stopping the sway instantly! Good one Ford your Tech in this case is worthy..
additional help is good ... relying on technology to solve a loading problem is not good
This is why I can't get any service at u haul. They're in the back playing with that😂
That's the best performance I've seen from a mustang
Great demo! DROVE home the point!
I saw this happen to a truck pulling a small trailer yesterday (it was probably going 60-70 mph). The trailer smacked the car to its left and then blew a tire and made a bit of a debris mess. Luckily no major damage appeared to happen to either car, and I was able to keep a safe distance... and dodge the blown tire (probably from the trailer) that flung into the middle of the road.
wow.
BTW jrodtopo, have you become a flat earther yet?
I only had this happen once, bicycling downhill at 20mph while towing around 60lbs of groceries home in my BICYCLE TRAILER. It was an unpleasant experience to say the least. I had loaded properly, but hadn't secured the load well enough so it shifted backwards. I was fortunate I wasn't thrown off the bike and was able to get slowed and under control. Always distribute the weight properly AND SECURE IT so it stays put.
also, don't go too fast in curves, could make the difference between geting 25€ in "flaschenpfand" or having to collect glass shards of the street for the next while
I experienced this once, I was towing a short home built holiday trailer that someone had modified the back end of. If I went over 80 km/h the mild bumps on the highway made it whip all over the place.
I never ever thought about this , thanks for posting !
Thank you for this extremely simple yet clear illustration.
Mustang was looking for a crowd that whole time
That's why when the guy would get near it would go bonkers
I run a small rv transport company. I’ve towed 1000s of trailers.
Keep in mind. Having the right tow vehicle to counter balance that weight is as important. I tow with nothing less than a one ton dually. That won’t happen with the right tow vehicle even if the weight distribution is off. I see people towing with small suvs. Bad mistake. Don’t do it. It don’t look cool either
I like random informative videos like this. I’m sure it will save lives.
Awesome! I've heard this, but never seen it in action....very helpful!
I think it's be very important to point out that too much weight on the front of the trailer can be just as dangerous! It can put too much weight on the rear axle of the car impeding the ability to steer properly, and not adressing that issue is dangerous.
I had this happen with my 2014 Ram 1500, my hands put the majority of the weight on the back of a 16' hydraulic lift trailer. As soon as I hit 50 mph I almost lost it going down the highway, but thank goodness for my cat like reflexes and steady foot work that I saved it.
P.S. I also had a full crew in my cab that day, I dont think they'll ever do It again.
YOU should have inspected the load. YOU as driver are responsible.
I kept telling em put the majority of the weight on the axles but those knuckleheads everything goes in 1 ear and out the other because of home issues or what not so when we went on down the road I let their decision play out and my own safety's expense.
Thanks for the help
Awesome !!! I’m taking a road trip tomorrow and I’m pulling a trailer I was wondering about this weight distribution.. thanks
Why is the mustang pulling a trailer 😂😂
HAPPY NEW YEAR 2019 🤝🏻
Absolutely Feckin Awesome. I always tow trailers 1.5 times weighing the tow vehicle. Works awesome never stuck in the snow. Thanks
This video will 100% save someone’s life good job mate
Towing a trailer with a Mustang itself is scary....forget about weight distribution lol 😂😂😂
Wow, Great information...Must highly consider..for towing equipment...Thank You
Thank you.
Great demonstration-thanks.
One thing I see wrong is the supposed axle is to much in the center of the frame .. when in reality they sit back 75% of the total length of the trailer... therefore most of the weight automatically weight is in front..
Depends on the trailer. Homebuilts are not this way and a lot of "car" manufactured trailers are not either. (cheap) Good High quality trailers are, but you know this world. Also, most of the weight is not "automatically" in the front if you load light stuff forward and heavy stuff rear. people do do that, hence the need for this video, sad really
I'll make sure no one uses there finger to push and wobble my trailer.
I'll use my bumper instead
Fantastic Demo!
Thank you
I love the model car and trailer. I would wait for the right time and then steal the models as well as the conveyor belt. Then I’d never leave my house.
Weight needs to go over the axle too. the trailer and the truck need to be working together to pull it. You don't want too much tongue weight. But otherwise accurate
TORQUE NOT TONGUE WHEN. YOU EAT
Pepper Spray no you are wrong. Torque is the grunt of a motor, and the tongue weight of a trailer is the weight over the front/hitch
CENTER OF MASS
Excellent instructional video. Very useful information.
Excellent demo !
So no one wants to talk about the hand of God behind that mustang?
For now there's no useless treadmill in my house again..
this is a good video. People will be more aware about their safety
Cool demonstration. No need to say anything more 👍 Very educational
When I was 10 i watched my step dad load a trailer with a truck and a car. The truck on the back and the car in the front. Well long story short...he totalled 3 vehicles that day
Human: *screws up on weight distribution
Car: aight imma spin out
Perfect demonstration, thank you
Thank You!
First of all why would I tow with a mustang?
It’s just a demonstration
@@MiniNinja258 its just a joke
Sky Cloud Gaming look at the other comments does hostility from them look like a joke? People are fighting over a toy car. So many it doesn’t seem like a joke anymore. There are jokes and serious comments mixed in everywhere. How is someone going to know if it was a joke or not. You just want to r/wooosh someone. Well......
Sky Cloud Gaming r/wooooooshh
Sky Cloud Gaming means someone doesn’t understand a joke but I r/wooosh you because you don’t see that it can also not be a joke. You think everything is a joke right away lol
60/40 is safe rule of thumb, but be careful of overloading the front on bigger loads - too much in the front can cause jackknifing, like around corners
Very helpful information. Thanks!
Thanks for this. I am about to tow my car on my new trailer and had this very question. Many thanks.
This model is incorrect. If you loaded your trailer the way this model is showing, you wouldn’t have anything in the middle of the trailer.
They should show more positions ahead of the axles. The majority of the weight should be slightly ahead of the axle.
PVDSWE - Then they should give a more accurate example. This is not teaching anyone on how to load their trailer correctly.
There is another video out there that is much more accurate.
It doesn't matter where the weights are, the purpose is to demonstrate where the center of mass must be in order to make the thing stable. It makes no difference where the weights are, as long as the center os mass is ahead of the axis.
Its just showing that there should be more weight on the trailer tongue. Weight-forward, not rear-ward.
@@renanfrancisco7642 not really, you need both the center of mass AND the moment of inertia to be equal. Bodies with the same center of mass have different behaviours in these kind of situations if their moments of inertia are different.
This example is still good because you can obtain any moment of inertia/center of mass by correctly choosing the weights.
Wheel placement on the trailer plays a factor as well
Most trailers have wheel placement in the back third of the trailer. Not right in the middle of the trailer.
And if you have most of the weight from the wheels of the trailer dispersed to the front of the trailer, I think that also provides better control.
Great visual for teaching.
Very informative, thanks alot
I see camper haulers all the time all over the road. They need to watch this before they kill someone
Well if a huge hand pushes my trailer
*OF COURSE I'M GONNA CRASH*
That’s what you get for driving on a treadmill.
Thank you for the Input.
Thank you!
I don't see no crowds!!
Btw why did it recommend me after 3 whole years....
Ok. Thank you!
Something I knew but didn't think it would be that dramatic. Thanks for the upload.
I love the University of Kentucky. Go Wildcats!
Gas Mask Go Bucks
@@Skeletor-hl9jd Is that some kind of a British Thing
Gas Mask Ohio state buckeyes
All weight is supposed to be in middle of axel not the front
Might want to tell travel trailer manufacturers that. Friend's got a 'rear kitchen model', fishtails badly because of so much weight in the rear.
Center of mass, this is the only thing that matters, not the position of the weights
It's not always easy to perfectly center the weight. So putting weight forward is the safer way.
breathe and squeeze It’s not hard to put it right above the axel? It doesn’t have to be perfect neither I drive with a trailer all the time an the middle is the best option sorry
@@joshuareyna9505 Don't be sorry. Just watch the damn video again. It doesn't say everything has to be in the middle. It says no more than 40% of the weight in the back.
Thanks!!
Great video. Thank you for sharing
Wait so your saying that if I have a 10,000 trailer I should have 6,000 in the front of it ? What hitch can handle that much tongue weight ?
No, it just means the weight (or more correctly, the centre of gravity of the weight) should be in front of the axle(s). It should also be close to the axle, not towards the hitch
In other words, don't pile all of the weight up against the back of the trailer. The amount of weight in the trailer doesn't matter, what matters is how you distribute the weight of whatever you're towing. For example, don't strap a stack of doors up against one wall of the trailer without putting anything on the other side.
Put it in the middle
It dapins on the hitch and tongue rating capacity 4 towing capacity of the car and truck
@@emmajacobs5575
HAPPY NEW YEAR 🤝🏻
Ditch the mustang, it’s a bad example because it automatically gets a 50% higher chance of crashing
It comes to the driver's experience
If that idiot floors the gas unto the corner( because the mustang has a lot of HP )it will lose traction, resulting into a crash.
But since you are not dumb enough to do that( hopefully ),you can buy a mustang for yourself.
Thank You, that was very simple to understand
much better than words alone
Great demo, vey helpful!
That mustang can barely go in a straight line as it is , Now you want a mustang with a loaded trailers crashing into a crowd full of people
Moral of the video, don’t use a mustang for towing
Demo is bout distributing weight on tha trailer properly tha car is not tha point of tha video.
N. Pippen ...
Thanks
Very informative video.