Cary Winch wrote:I do still need to point out that people need to realize that the load this chart calculates is the weight at the joint of the tongue to the rest of the frame not the total weight of the trailer.
No, the weights in the chart above are the maximum weight of the whole trailer, if the tongue is to pass the Aussie rule - that rule says the tongue must withstand a load on the coupler equal to half the total trailer weight.
I can well understand if you want to say that that is too strict a rule, particularly for trailers with reasonable tongue weights. I think it is too strict - and the fact that Camp-Inns don't have any problems with their tongues is one of the things that makes me believe this!
However, it's a simple rule that is unlikely to get a home builder into trouble, even if they get an excessive tongue weight, so I think it's useful.
Andrew