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Topic: Max hitch weight, is stabilizer included?

romany girl

03/8/2009 at 6:21pm
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We have a Honda Civic with a max hitch nose weight of 70kg, having just weighed our caravan after a motamova being fitted behind the axle, its 64kg with the van fully loaded and ready to hitch up.

We use a Bulldog 200 leaf type stabilizer, does the weight of this have to be added to the hitch weight before the maximum can be considered? It is suported mainly by its own bracket attached to the sides of the towbar via the main bolts, but not the hitchball.

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Mozann

03/8/2009 at 6:38pm
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I'd not thought of it before. I can't think how you could do it, even if you could balance the blade in the 'resting' bracket, I doubt the reading would be acurate because the car end would be unsuported?

I use a Bulldog 200 too but check nose without it on, interested to know what others do.

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Paul B

03/8/2009 at 7:57pm
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If it's connected to the tow bar then technically I believe it should be included in the nose weight, which is a measure of the vertical load that the tow bar can carry. As to the logistics of doing this - weighing the blade, and adding this weight to the measured nose weight should be fairly accurate (the weight of the stabiliser being imposed very close to the point of support ie the tow ball).

romany girl

03/8/2009 at 8:15pm
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Thanks guys, I have got a spare 6kg to play with up to the 70kg limit, and thats with the stabilizer still stored in in the front locker, so I should just about scrape through safely upto the limit

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Hi

Nothing's simple, is it.

Yes, in my opinion the weight of the stabiliser should be included as part of the noseweight.

But the Bulldog leaf stabiliser is very similar to the Scott (the original leaf stabliser - I beleive). Now if I remember correctly Scott claimed that a portion of the caravan noseweight was transferred back onto the caravan wheels but I can't remember the figures.

Hopefully somebody might come along with the Scott literature to refer to.

Thwack

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