"MonkeePuzzle" (monkeypuzzle)
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Chris_K_F drives an FR-Slow
> MonkeePuzzle
10/04/2016 at 10:16 |
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But my truck has a ton of power and torque, I can tow anything and I don’t need no damn physics or schoolin’ ta do it!
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MonkeePuzzle
> Chris_K_F drives an FR-Slow
10/04/2016 at 10:19 |
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in your case, I’d recommend attaching a 2nd and 3rd poorly weight balanced trailers! :D
EL_ULY
> MonkeePuzzle
10/04/2016 at 10:19 |
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there is a Mustang joke here somewhere
McMike
> MonkeePuzzle
10/04/2016 at 10:21 |
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So close
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MonkeePuzzle
> EL_ULY
10/04/2016 at 10:22 |
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OBVIOUSLY :D
Smallbear wants a modern Syclone, local Maple Leafs spammer
> McMike
10/04/2016 at 10:26 |
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Does colliding with it’s own trailer count
TysMagic
> MonkeePuzzle
10/04/2016 at 10:37 |
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what a cool way to show this! Now if only people will listen
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McMike
> Smallbear wants a modern Syclone, local Maple Leafs spammer
10/04/2016 at 10:47 |
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That would register somewhere between a 3-4, but since you brought a boat to cars and coffee with your mustang, and managed to hit your own trailer while doing a burnout, I would have to come up with a whole new grading system to rate that one.
5/5 for sure.
Urambo Tauro
> MonkeePuzzle
10/04/2016 at 10:48 |
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I’ve known the basic rules of trailering for a while now, but I never understood the exact physics behind why they’re so important. This helps a lot.
I always thought that a collision with the trailer would just rotate the trailer around the hitch ball. But what I’m seeing here is that the pivot point is actually the trailer axle(s), which moves the rear of the tow vehicle around a lot.
SkyNet
> MonkeePuzzle
10/04/2016 at 11:13 |
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I saw this on FB this morning.
The first thing that popped into my mind was “911"
bhtooefr
> MonkeePuzzle
10/04/2016 at 12:19 |
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This is also why European tow ratings are somewhat irrelevant when trying to tow in the US.
Europeans assume 4-7% tongue weight (that is, the force pushing down on the trailer hitch is 4-7% of the trailer’s total weight), whereas Americans assume 10-15%. Europeans also tow slower - usually 80 km/h maximum - to help compensate for this.
If you’re planning on towing a trailer with a car that has a European tow rating, and no American tow rating... consider the tongue weight limit for the car, and even then, keep your speeds down, especially on an unbraked trailer. For instance, sure, you might see that a Golf has as high as 1600 kg (3527 lb) towing capacity with a braked trailer, but American ones have no towing capacity, and you figure you can tow a 3500 pound trailer safely in reality. However, they have an 80 kg (176 lb) tongue weight limit - that’s 5% tongue weight, MAXIMUM, at the maximum towing capacity. Consider that loaded properly by American standards, that 1600 kg trailer could have as high as 240 kg tongue weight!
At 15% tongue weight, you’re cutting that in 1/3, for a limit of 533 kg/1176 lbs. And now you can see where “1000 lb” tow ratings on US-spec compact cars that have any tow rating at all come from, when the same car in Europe is rated to drag 3500+ lb trailers around.
DarrenMR
> MonkeePuzzle
10/04/2016 at 14:18 |
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Jalop made a post about this video just now.