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    Posted: 21 Feb 2017 at 4:54pm
is the listed tongue weight on the pods dry or wet?
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Direct Link To This Post Posted: 21 Feb 2017 at 5:18pm
Osage, my opinion dry, they have no idea what you will place on the tongue or in the Pod.
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Direct Link To This Post Posted: 21 Feb 2017 at 6:38pm
Ditto
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Direct Link To This Post Posted: 21 Feb 2017 at 7:06pm
that's what I though. so if you a a full propane tank 35# battery 20# 5 gal water 40# and the empty tongue weight is 275 # that all equals  370 #'s which is more than the avg. of the 350 # hitch on most hitches on tv
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Direct Link To This Post Posted: 21 Feb 2017 at 7:29pm
Subtract the 40# water weight.  On our 177 the FW tank is located behind the axle so in essence you will be subtracting all your water weight off the tongue. 
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Direct Link To This Post Posted: 21 Feb 2017 at 7:32pm
I don't know what kind of battery you have, but mine are 70# each.
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Direct Link To This Post Posted: 21 Feb 2017 at 7:35pm
The full weight of what you put on the tongue does NOT show up as tongue weight. It's a lever, the farther from the ball, the smaller the percentage actually transferred.

Our Pod had dual 6v batteries, dual propane tanks, and an electric jack. WEIGHED, not guessed, tongue weight was 360 ready to camp.
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Direct Link To This Post Posted: 22 Feb 2017 at 11:22am
I believe that if you put counter weight behind the axle, that will lessen the tongue weight also. So putting things like your tool box, r dome, anything with weight behind the axle, and only clothing and light items in front of the axle helps as well. You can actually put a weight scale under your jack and see what it weighs if your scale goes high enough. Then see what it weighs when you rearrange weight. Its a thought.

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Direct Link To This Post Posted: 22 Feb 2017 at 11:39am
Here is a process to get tongue weight with a standard bath scale: To do this, you'll need a two-by-four cut to a five- or six-foot (1.5- or 1.8-meter) length, two pipes, your bathroom scale, and a brick. Lay one of the pipes across the scale and the other across the brick. Position the scale and the brick so the pipes are exactly three feet apart. Now, lay the two-by-four across the pipes, and find a suitable way to support the tongue of the trailer at the same height as the tow vehicle's hitch ball. Place the tongue (and hitch-height support) on the two-by-four exactly 2 feet (0.6 meters) away from the pipe lying across the scale and 1 foot (0.3 meters) away from the pipe lying across the brick. Read the weight displayed on the scale, and then multiply the weight by three. This is your tongue weight. As posted, you can adjust the weight of the cargo forward or rearward of the trailer axle to reach your target tongue weight. Just watch the scale -- and don't forget to multiply the displayed weight by three.
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Direct Link To This Post Posted: 22 Feb 2017 at 4:52pm
holy cow!!   lol. if you could put that in book form, with photos, and let me know when its available on amazon id appreciate it   lol.  thanks 
honestly, i had no idea it was that involved


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