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Downsides to a long trailer tongue?
(Steven Shelikoff) wrote in message
Are you actually trying to say that if I have a boat/trailer that weighs
10,000 lbs and the hitch is 10' from the axle and the hitch weight is
1lb, then I add an extension on the end of the tongue to increase the
hitch to axle distance to 15' and the hitch extension weighs a million
pounds, that I have not changed the location of the cg of the
boat/trailer in relation to the fulcrum, which is the axle?
Yep, if you are not including the hitch in the calculations, then yes.
What YOU seem to have not included, which would make YOUR analysis
fatally flawed, is the fact that the fulcrum point is NOT the CG, and
ADDITIONALLY, you've done NOTHING about the fact that the fulcrum is a
long ways from the CG in the Z direction.
If that's what you're trying to say, then I can only reiterate my
original point, which is that it's amazing to me the lack of
understanding of simple physics from quite a few posters that this
thread has brought to light.
Steve
I agree. You don't have a clue.
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