Drawbar weight of Camper Trailer

Same principles apply about the towball weight V's the ball weight. But this can be really upset, as you know, by bad loading or design. The Nissan should cope OK with normal towing and I'm sure that there are plenty with towball weights of over 250Kg driving around.

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Thats a common solution to a common problem.

have a look at the basic design of a lot of CT's and the axle is rear of the middle of the trailer, and things likes storage boxes etc , go on the A frame of the CT.

This is often counteracted by having the Water tank rear of the axle.

I think my 650kg CT is about 70-80kg Ball weight.

Caravans/Horse Floats tend to be a bit more balanced with their axle placement , and their Ball Weights is often a lot closer to the 10% then CT's.

There has been enough written on this subject to fill a book.
First off, what is "ball weight" - ans. "the download on the vehicle tow hitch from the trailer ball".
Thats ok, but what about the distance of the trailer hitch from the centre of the trailer wheels?
If you think about this, it is very obvious (and dead easy to verify) that the further the hitch is away (like, the longer the drawbar) then the less "apparent" ballweight there will be.
If you load your trailer up (or van or whatever) with 10-15% at the front edge of the unit ie. say 1000kg. on the wheels, zero (negative) at the rear and 150kg. at the front edge (gvm 1150kg.) you have the balance required for stable towing. If the distance from the wheel centre to the front edge is 2m. and the distance to the tow hitch 3m. (from wheel c/l) then the ballweight is 2/3 x 150= 100kg. If the distance is 3.5m then ballweight becomes 2/3.5 x 150 =85kg. The longer the drawbar, the less the ballweight but the rig retains its stability due to the weight at the front edge. Using the same principle you can measure any ballweight using a set of bathroom scales.
Its all about levers, which is simply what a WDH is. Its sole function is to turn the trailer/ vehicle combination into a long flexible beam with its fulcrums at the C/L's of the trailer wheels and the front ones of the towing vehicle. (with a fair bit of structural stress thrown in)
kesh

We used to have a 1997 UBS2 Jackaroo. I have an official email answer on file from GMH that says the towball weight was upgraded for that (& I assume other similar) models to 250kg PROVIDED THAT A WEIGHT DISTRIBUTION HITCH IS USED. Must of course also have the higher specification 2500kg towbar fitted. Some time later the handbook for the new model, I think it came out when the 3.5 litre petrol motor was released, specified that 250kg was O.K. If I knew how to attach a copy of that email to this post I would. Unfortunately I don't.