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01-20-2011, 06:49 PM
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Sherline Trailer Tongue Scale
Does anybody have one of these scales and if so have an opinion?
http://www.sherline.com/lm.htm
baglo
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01-20-2011, 09:32 PM
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Re: Sherline Trailer Tongue Scale
Glenn:
I don't have one of these -- just used a bathroom scale which worked quite well. Our scale is an electronic scale. You need to apply the load fairly quickly but gently. I did this by using some blocks and a bottle jack rather than using the hitch jack. The tongue weight on our little trailer is only 200 pounds which is within the range of a bathroom scale.
Brian
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01-21-2011, 08:10 AM
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Re: Sherline Trailer Tongue Scale
I have one and I think it's great. It is most valuable when you get a new trailer or when you change the way you load your trailer. Once you get a feel for how your trailer reacts to different weights in different locations, it is less useful. I will be using mine quite a bit when I pick up my new Escape 19 this spring but I suspect that I won't use it much after the first year.
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01-21-2011, 08:43 AM
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Re: Sherline Trailer Tongue Scale
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Originally Posted by Harold Kroeker
I have one and I think it's great. It is most valuable when you get a new trailer or when you change the way you load your trailer. Once you get a feel for how your trailer reacts to different weights in different locations, it is less useful. I will be using mine quite a bit when I pick up my new Escape 19 this spring but I suspect that I won't use it much after the first year.
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That was my experience. I used it quite a bit the first summer. After that; not so much.
Dick
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01-29-2011, 03:29 PM
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Re: Sherline Trailer Tongue Scale
Well, I bought the Sherline scale and even read the manual.
Today, I measured the tongue weight and got 300 lbs. Dry weight of the 17B is 2,100 lbs and I'm guessing what it weighs loaded. I figure, I'm probably in the ballpark of 10 - 15 per cent of total weight at 300 lbs.
Of course I'll have to do it all again once we load up for a trip. Have to add generator, BBQ, chairs, food, and beer of course.
Last time I weighed the trailer ( hitched to the RAV ) I got 2,816 lbs. on the trailer axle. According to the Sherline manual, you add the tongue weight from the scale reading to that to get the total weight - 3,116 llbs.
Might have to move a couple cast-iron pans forward.
baglo
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01-29-2011, 05:02 PM
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Re: Sherline Trailer Tongue Scale
Hey Glenn you could always pack some extra beer.....
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01-29-2011, 05:31 PM
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Re: Sherline Trailer Tongue Scale
Remember to weigh that tongue on a level area and make sure the trailer is level. With the torsion axles that Escape uses you can skew your results.
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01-29-2011, 05:33 PM
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Re: Sherline Trailer Tongue Scale
Quote:
Originally Posted by D. Priestley
Hey Glenn you could always pack some extra beer.....
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That weight shifts after loading too much to count on.
I have been seriously considering getting that scale, where did you pick it up Glenn?
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01-29-2011, 06:10 PM
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Re: Sherline Trailer Tongue Scale
I ordered from etrailer.com
Actually, I got two, one for me and one for Keath for his 19'.
I asked if they were available from their Ontario warehouse and they were so were shipped from there. I figured it would be OK to go by UPS since package wasn't crossing the border. Ended up on FedEx ( they must have some arrangement with UPS ).
Cost was $123.50 each and $44.39 shipping for the pair. Ordered Sunday and got them on Friday.
If they were going to ship from U.S. I would have specified USPS.
baglo
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01-29-2011, 06:21 PM
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Re: Sherline Trailer Tongue Scale
BTW: You can get the Sherline Trailer Towing Guide as a PDF at http://www.sherline.com/lm.htm
baglo
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01-29-2011, 06:45 PM
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Re: Sherline Trailer Tongue Scale
I have used etrailer.com a couple times. Great company to deal with. I never realized that they had a Canadian warehouse.
And you are right, UPS nationally is fine, it just sucks big time for international.
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01-29-2011, 06:51 PM
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Re: Sherline Trailer Tongue Scale
Not all products are available from the Ontario warehouse so you have to do a phone order, not online.
baglo
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01-29-2011, 08:00 PM
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Re: Sherline Trailer Tongue Scale
Which model did you get? Just wondering if the lower capacity models give a more accurate reading.
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01-29-2011, 08:22 PM
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Re: Sherline Trailer Tongue Scale
I got the 2,000 lb. model. I didn't and don't see any others offered on etrailer.com, but the manual says that you can use any hydraulic pressure gauge that reads in psi ( which you read as pounds - 200psi is 200lbs. )
I gather that the 1,000 lb. and 3,000 lb. scales are the same except for the gauge. You can order a different gauge from Sherline.
You get the most accurate reading in the middle of the range ( at 1,000 lbs. for the 2,000 lb model ). Sherline says the gauge is accurate to 2 per cent in the middle and 3 per cent at the extreme high or low readings.
I suspect that this tiny difference is why etrailer.com doesn't stock the 1,000 and 3,000 lb models.
baglo
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09-07-2011, 10:30 AM
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Re: 17 eh Trailer Tongue Scale
Not having a scale at hand I modified a very cheap 2 ton bottle jack. Works great, lift anything a mm and you have the weight. It requires multiplying with a constant to suit the piston dia. There was lots of room in the iron base for a 1/4" NPT to suit the gauge.
Tongue weight turned out to be very light so I will shift the load.
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