[Rhodes22-list] Trailer Extension Replacement

[Tom Van Heule]

Great input and food for thought.

Keep it clean folks!

On Thu, May 27, 2021, 5:03 PM Chris on LBI <cknell at vt.edu> wrote:

> I replaced my extension and learned a couple of things.
> 1) In another thread there has been a discussion about tongue weight. I had
> assumed that since I was successful at positioning the boat fully forward
> on
> the bunks for the first time (on the previous three retrievals, the bow was
> about 3" back from the bow-stop), that my tongue weight must have been too
> great, causing the extension to buckle. However, with the bow in contact
> with the bow-stop, my tongue weight is only 215 lbs. (so less than the
> ballpark 350 lbs. target weight). Excessive tongue weight did not cause the
> failure.
> 2) When I stood the old tongue extension on end and banged the rust out of
> the inside of the tube, I collected about 10 pounds of rust. Of course this
> was all rust that used to be part of the tube structure. Most of it seemed
> to come from the aft side of the tube; that is, the part that bears the
> tongue weight when extended. I conclude that I need to be sure to rinse the
> inside of the extension thoroughly each time I use it (twice a year) since
> we launch and retrieve in salt water.
>
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