Collapsing wheels

[Starbrightsteve]

When we got home from Newfoundland I decided to build a wheeled carrier for my Hallmark Guanella. It would not fit in the garage on the truck and I wanted to store it under cover for winter. I ordered some wheels from Amazon rated at 2800 pounds for the set. This seemed ok because the empty camper was supposed to weigh about 1700 pounds. So I built the cart and bolted on the wheels and when I lowered the camper onto the cart, the two wheels under the front of the camper collapsed. I don’t know how much that end of the camper weighs but it is much, much more than half of the total. Amazon refunded my $45 and the next set I ordered was for 5000 pounds. They cost about 3 times as much but they worked! This weight distribution of my camper I suspect puts more weight on the front end of my truck than I had imagined.

 

[Wandering Sagebrush]

Do you have a link to the 5000 wheels?

 

[JaSAn]

Take the loaded truck/camper to a CAT scale. They will give you weight per axle.

 

[Starbrightsteve]

CWfutureparts 8” x 2” heavy casters 5200 pound capacity per set . Amazon

 

[Starbrightsteve]

Take the loaded truck/camper to a CAT scale. They will give you weight per axle.

So if I knew the weight on the front and rear of the truck, how would that information help me know the weight of the front and rear of the camper?

 

[JaSAn]

Weigh the truck with loaded camper.
Weigh the truck without camper.
Subtract.
CAT scale gives weight on each axle and total weight:

 

[Jon R]

Based on the weight and the 34 inches from the front of the truck bed cg location shown on the Hallmark website, a good ballpark guess is the front pair of casters has about 1200 lbs on it and the rear pair has about 600 lbs on it, assuming your dolly wheelbase is 8 feet.