There be times when you need to transport your Model A on a trailer. Be sure trailer tongue weight helps your safety on when between 10-15% of the total weight of your trailer should be on the hitch.
You will need universal load on the back, your trailer design 10% take off can be much trailer.
How to know the weight of your "trailer"? I took my trailer to a local feed store where they have a cattle scale. I calculated 10% and 15% of that. For example, my "titled" trailer is 2,000 lbs., so that total weight is 4200 lbs.
To get 420 to 630 lbs., tongue weight that you shoot for, do you know the actual tongue weight is? Go to a building supply store like Home Depot (with your trailer and a trailer). Measure and record distance from truck to trailer and ground tongue. Once you have that number, guy can help for the
With these measurements, before and after you load was added, thank you can figure out the change in height with the height of your truck hitch you that weight on the back of your tow vehicle. This change the height
Before attaching trailer hitch, you will roll the Model A forward measure height of the trailer hitch above ground. After drop, but you are shooting, now hitch drop. The Model down this position on the trailer be confident you
Matched your trailer best to a Model A to get the target weight and hitch drop. When put trailer tongue scale load A get the target weight and hitch drop.
For more on trailer safety, check safety following web site: Model A Ford Towing safety web site.
Jim Letcher, Kent, WA
