Tongue math help

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Tongue math help

Postby Aaron Coffee » Thu Apr 29, 2010 8:49 pm

Am going to rebuild the tongue on #2(Menards bolt together trailer), and everytime I do the tongue design math I end up confused, can someone help me out, it will be a composite tongue, the overall length of the tongue will be 60" from the front of the frame, with braces meeting the tongue at 36". I am thinking of using 2x3 14ga rectangle tubing for the main tongue with 2x2 1/8 angle for the braces, I am doing the math at 1,000 lbs, but am actually figuring the finished weight will be around 800 lbs. Does the above sound right?
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Postby aggie79 » Fri Apr 30, 2010 11:59 am

By my check of Andrew's tongue weight chart, you're okay. I think you could even change your 2" x 2" to 14 gauge also.
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