Just make sure your vehicle and towball setup can handle that amount of hitch weight. If it cant you will need to move the weight closer to the trailer axle
@@sunofpeter2it is, but only if your trailer can handle it. You could break the tongue or your suspension might not be stiff enough, causing it to bottom out. There are different size trailers with different weight capacities, so it's really simple: know your trailer, and don't try to haul anything too big. Then, you can always use this technique.
@@CrawlerMedia I got yah. I have watched the demo with the same set up( models on a treadmill) and the load was placed further back and the trailer stable.
I transport a lot of small equipment for my work ( mini excavator, Bobcat etc) and it all depends on which truck and trailer combo I'm using, but I generally try to keep the majority of the weight over the dual axles on the trailer, but if I can't, then I always put the load towards the front of the trailer to avoid losing control.
Its actually better to put the load above the wheels of the trailer cuze putting it all the way forward could take your front wheels up and your steering could cause problems
Then you have too big a load for the vehicle to handle anyway. If the front end lifts that high, you also lose the effectiveness of your brakes. Get a bigger truck. But people don't.
If you need to haul a skid steer maybe but for something that isn't so heavy you want in the front of the trailer. If it's a razor you actually have then I would put over the trailer tires but a gold cart or something similar you can also put to the front.These toys aren't accurate representations but it gets the just of it.
What all of you are failing to notice here is that UTVs are back heavy! The majority of the weight on 99% of the UTVs on the market are in the rear. By having the Rzr as far forward on the trailer as possible it is putting the majority of the weight over the trailer axles. If you center your UTV you are putting more of the weight to the rear of the trailer and that is bad. UNLESS, you back your UTV on and then in that case your going to want to try and get it more towards the rear of the trailer. Know what your towing is one of the most important aspects of towing.
This is crazy, my grandfather father actually taught me to ALWAYS load the heavier weight in the front of a trailer to keep it from walking now I see exactly what he meant
If you MUST load to the rear, dial up the gain on your trailer brakes. Make sure the trailer brakes apply way before the vehicle brakes apply. This can also save you in a tail-wag situation due to high winds. If the trailer gets wagging back there, grab the manual trailer application lever and get things pulled straight again. When you are out of those situations remember to return your trailer brake gain back to normal driving setting. Always load the trailer hitch level, when in tow and loaded. And, You can still get in a dangerous tail wag situation, even with load leveler bars and slider tension bar on the hitch.
Pro tip. If your trailer starts to sway like that, do not panic and accelerate! I know it seems counter intuitive to hit the gas when the brakes seem like a better idea to slow you down but that makes things worse. If you hit the brakes the trailer's momentum continues, and your vehicle now becomes a pivot point for that kinetic energy to bounce off. Whereas when you accelerate briskly you are pulling the trailer's front end out of the swerve. You are basically yanking the trailer straight again. You'll thank me later.
@@BemTeViOficial Algumas pessoas têm o hábito de comentar em seu próprio idioma, quer os outros entendam ou não. Eles nem se importam em usar um tradutor.
@@prysp we usually have a option to translate to English right below the comment so we can read it. I know I didn’t translate mine but I think it should work for other languages too.
Yes, this is why they have you strap it in place. The weight matters though. Here is what google has to say: "Following the 60/40 rule when loading a trailer is vitally important for safe towing. The best way to load for proper weight distribution is to start with the largest and heaviest items. Place heavy cargo in the center of the trailer, just forward of the axle.
you should more so have it directly over the tires of the trailer so you have full control. more weight in back of trailer means your back of the truck is lighter, more in the front of the trailer, than the trucks back is heavier and the front of the truck won't have much control for steering.
over the axles is right, than control the weight on the trailer hitch...the rear axles of the car is important for stability, but the steering axles needs weight too
I don't know anything about towing but I imagine it's a good ideea to keep the weight between two axles. Not on the axles but between the axles. Anything that is not between the wheels of the car pushes from the exterior and the direction of the force is inverted cos of lever effect, while pushing right it pushes front to the left. And exterior in front pushes the rear in opposite direction so to make it stable ... between axles
It is very correct, the demonstration is not quite good here because with toys you dont have effects that have with heavy weight. If you put the load completely front as demonstrated it will lift the front part of the car and put a lot of weight on the back which will stress the suspension and on top of that you lose traction with your front tires so in some conditions you might not even be able to steer. This is different from car to car, it might not be so tragic on a ford raptor but on smaller cars it’s very dangerous! Keep the weight in the middle.
@@grosucristi6599 lever effect. The engine is far away in the front. You need a lot of weight on towing hook to lift the front. And there can't be a lot cos ... lever effect... The weight is closer to trailer axle then hook. So logically ... not on the trailer axles is best but in front of them. Btw we are talking about center of mass. To have the center of mass in front of the axle you don't need the entire load in front of the axle
The person who made this video is so great, hope people with good knowledge all over the world may make such video which demonstrate very helpful tricks. this will forsure save lives.👏👏👏👏👌👌👌
Doesn’t change the fact that people might not notice the car roll back while they’re driving. Even if it’s some how strapped you cannot predict the future.
The safe position is to have the load mass displaced evenly over trailer axles slightly forward. 60/40 ish. Don’t want too much tongue weight lifting front of the tow rig, but too far back on trailer lifts the rear of the tow rig and will cause trailer to sway badly at best.
Had an employee at my old job that loaded the back of trailers with heavy equipment because he swore it "saved time". We warned him but he said "BS". He lost his job after he jackknifed on the highway in high winds and destroyed our skid steer.
An anti-sway hitch is a must. Also, if you ever get in this situation, accelerate to get the trailer under control. Trailer brakes are also very helpful. And yes, I want one of these to play with too.
Having grown up in OZ it's really common sense. Plus read the car manual, it'll tell you all about how to load a trailer. The number of times you can tell someone didn't read the manual and spec the car for the trailer when on a country drive is scary.
Also accelerate, instead of braking if you want to correct the swinging by a manouver you regretted instantly. E.g. steering too harshly to make room for an ambulance..
Its no joke folks, lost a cousin to trailer sway that ended in a rollover. They loaded a truck onto a trailer backwards(with the box to the front of the trailer engine to the rear). Going around a mountain curve there was someone coming down the middle of the road and my other cousin had to make an evasive manuve that he was unable to recover from.
It doesn’t take much either. We had my 26 foot enclosed full of 5 snowmobiles and supplies and fuel. Trailer was very squirrelly and unstable. We simply moved 5 full fuel cans to the truck box, and was night and day different.
i agree... for sure it will behave difrent when the truck is actuall the 1 pulling the trailer .. but wht he is showing here is both the truck and the trailer is towed
Problem that is also wrong, you want the weight in the center if possible. Cause if the weight is to much, it will remove weight from the front wheels.
Add in the scenarios of: 1. Going up hill, and the centre of gravity on the trailer shifts back, reducing the towbar weight even more. 2. going downhill where the excess towbar weight impacts sterring and breaking on the fron wheels. 3. a bumpy undulating road, you are all over the place.
the weight in the back of the trailer takes traction from the back of the truck making it harder to correct, Thats very useful information especially for truckers
It’s better to have the weight over the axels because if you have it on the tongue/front of the trailer your putting all that weight on the trucks rear end.
my ignorant brother once had guys load shingles on a dump trailer and they loaded em all on one end and my brother blamed them when he fishtailed and went in someone's yard. but in my eyes it's the drives job to inspect the load and know better... great safety demo video guys!
Hey! Mechatronics Engineer here. For your curiosity, that happens because of two concept in General Mechanics called Movement of Barycenter Theorem and the Angular Movement Quantity Theorem (Idk if that's the correct way to name it in english because it's the literal translation from what we say in my country). So basically what happen is that he is changing the center of gravity of the system and, depending on the position of this center, steering can cause more momentum on the attachment behind the truck, causing more angular acceleration and making it harder to correct with the steering wheel. Of course there is more to explain here but I hope I could help a bit. Have a good day!
I was taught weight in front of the last most wheels in this case the trailer and the most weight over the drive wheels or close as you can get and I love this visual demonstration it's amazing
People need to learn this with camping trailers and toy haulers. Needs to be loading instructions explaining this in every owners manual of every sold trailer.
@@Commander_ZiN I had no idea a Saturn L200 came with towing instructions, or a hatch back geo metro. I didn't even know every used car came with these instructions, how could I have missed it in every car ever sold. How ignorant of me...
@@2pink1stink If it has towing capability it'll be in the manual. If you don't have the manual with a second hand car get it online. It's up to the owner to know the operation capabilities or their vehicle and trailer. I don't know why you're being sarcastic, you wanted loading instructions, they exist, just look for them.
@@Commander_ZiN because what you said was obviously not correct, that's the obvious sarcasm. Most vehicles for towing come with tow capacity limits in the manual, but they don't come with trailer loading instructions per axel type, or hitch type, so that's not true. Freightliners don't even come with trailer loading instructions in the owners manual, I'm looking at it right now. The company doesn't even provide that because it's different per shipment and product, the shippers provides that per pallet type and weight. It's one thing to understand the responsibility of the vehicle you drive, and even go out of your way to find and print the 400 pages of an owners manual, (😆) but it's simply not true that vehicle owners manuals have trailer loading instructions. People use old pickup beds for trailers, those don't come with loading instructions. U-Hauls don't even have loading instructions, they do however have liability forms. 99% of people don't have this information, camping world trailer lease and rental doesn't even provide this information.
@@Commander_ZiN "it's in the owners manual of every car sold" is completely different than "everyone should know the operation capabilities of their vehicle and trailer," because clearly the first comment is just blatantly false. I also highly doubt you sat down with the owners manual of every car you have ever purchased and read every page front to back before driving it. This test in the video, is a great visualization to show the effect of loading, reading the mundane technical wrighting approved by a legal team of a manufacturer won't explain it as easily or as accurately as this simple video shows anyway, so this is more effective regardless. Saying "people should just know, because they should just know," sounds like something a spoiled out of touch boomer would say.
One time I was hauling two four wheelers, front to back. On the rear rack of the rearward wheeler I had a big tote full of a couple hundred pounds of moose meat. When I got on the highway I was starting to fish-tail. I stopped and moved the tote of meat to the center of the trailer. That was all it took to fix my fish-tailing issue.
