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Forum: General Chat 06-11-2019, 07:34 AM
Replies: 455
Views: 225,710
Posted By Kai in Seattle
JonRaw: lots of good info about your trailer and...

JonRaw: lots of good info about your trailer and situation. That storage at the very back can be filled, maybe, with very large but light things like folding chairs. Of course you really needed me...
Forum: General Chat 05-29-2017, 06:06 PM
Replies: 455
Views: 225,710
Posted By Kai in Seattle
Min, so your numbers will change before your...

Min, so your numbers will change before your final tongue calculation. so did ours as we gutted and rebuilt our amerigo, one of those wood-paneled inside types. We, too, went for more than 10%...
Forum: General Chat 05-29-2017, 11:26 AM
Replies: 455
Views: 225,710
Posted By Kai in Seattle
Hey, WaltP, there was a video on one of these...

Hey, WaltP, there was a video on one of these FGRV threads that showed what happens when a trailer is tail-heavy AND when it's tongue heavy--too heavy on the tongue is a stress on the tow vehicle and...
Forum: General Chat 05-29-2017, 10:08 AM
Replies: 455
Views: 225,710
Posted By Kai in Seattle
Min, Hoping you do remember that for optimal...

Min, Hoping you do remember that for optimal (non-lethal!) handling, your tongue weight needs to be between 10% and 15% of your total trailer weight. That is, it must be a bit nose-heavy. Otherwise...
Forum: General Chat 08-24-2016, 05:23 PM
Replies: 455
Views: 225,710
Posted By Kai in Seattle
Thanks! :D Knowing it's that sensitive has...

Thanks! :D
Knowing it's that sensitive has helped us load it properly for travel. B)
Forum: General Chat 08-24-2016, 03:22 PM
Replies: 455
Views: 225,710
Posted By Kai in Seattle
update 73 amerigo weight dry & loaded

1973 amerigo FG-16

Gutted weight: estimated 900 lbs, tongue weight 90 pounds (home scale)
almost finished weight, dry: weighed by weighmaster: 1760
finished weight, weighed by weighmater: 1980...
Forum: General Chat 08-24-2016, 03:17 PM
Replies: 455
Views: 225,710
Posted By Kai in Seattle
Welcome! Hope you do, too!

Welcome! Hope you do, too!
Forum: General Chat 05-16-2016, 11:37 AM
Replies: 455
Views: 225,710
Posted By Kai in Seattle
Heck, we even gave it a haircut and clipped its...

Heck, we even gave it a haircut and clipped its nails. We made sure it wasn't even breathing heavy. And it was in dry weather, so it wasn't wet. A lady never weighs herself wet!

:umb:thumb:shg
Forum: General Chat 05-16-2016, 09:36 AM
Replies: 455
Views: 225,710
Posted By Kai in Seattle
Fredeick L: ever weigh an amerigo?

Thank you for doing all this! 112 listed and not one amerigo.
Hope to run into one day when you're doing this again at an Oregon gathering and maybe you can weigh our amerigo FG-16? Or haved...
Forum: General Chat 05-16-2016, 07:56 AM
Replies: 455
Views: 225,710
Posted By Kai in Seattle
Update on 1973 Amerigo tongue weight

Once Paul got the new marine plywood floor installed and both deep cell marine batteries in their travel boxes chained up on the tongue plate, we re-weighed the tongue. Now it is at 210, which ...
Forum: General Chat 04-17-2016, 10:12 AM
Replies: 455
Views: 225,710
Posted By Kai in Seattle
AMERIGO 1973 FG-16 Gutted entirely except...

AMERIGO 1973 FG-16

Gutted entirely except for molded ceiling and wooden upper cabinets (doors off), no batteries, no propane tanks, no plywood floor, our 1973 amerigo FG-16 level tongue weight was...
Forum: General Chat 01-11-2016, 02:57 PM
Replies: 455
Views: 225,710
Posted By Kai in Seattle
Anyone have a weight on an amerigo FG-16? PO...

Anyone have a weight on an amerigo FG-16? PO claimed it was 1300; that cannot e right.
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