Re: Please help me get the axel on my trailer road worthy.
I am just moving stuff like clothes, stereo equpment and the like. No big furniture. Light weight stuff. The furniture stays here in Saginaw.
The 600 miles is going back and fourth three times over a probably 2 day period.
still, even so, your useing a limited capacity boat & trailer to haul stuff. it was not designed for that. its like useing a wrench to drive in a nail. it might work a time or two, but at some point, something is going to go wrong.
understand, you load the boat/trailer,. it has @ hypotheticly, a 1000 pound recomended max limit. now, you toss in an additional 500 pounds of stuff, be it clothes, tools, whatever. now your at 1500 pounds on a 1000 pound rated trailer. so at 60 mph, your tires heat up, your sway increases, and stopping distance doubles cause your lightweight trailer hs no brakes. [ assuming] add in there is no roof to keep your stuff dry should it rain.
its more then just clothing and gear, its weight, weight that potentialy, your trailer was NOT designed to carry. Depending on tire size, they may also be at or near their load limit with just the boat & trailer. add 500 pounds of stuff and your 50% over the load limit.
Remember, trailers normaly have a certain amount of sway, that side to side motion caused by wind, car movement, and road surface changes. THat sway is in large part, absorbed by the side walls on your tires, which, is the weakest link in that chain. Sway, is in a sence, like dragging the tire sideways. accepted at load limit, diesaster when over loaded.
Botom line, its your boat, your trailer, your stuff, so you can do as you please, my fears are for the other folks on the road around you, cause an over loaded trailer , when you talk about something going wrong, its not an IF, its a WHEN....
