Moving sliding 5th wheel

[8978]

I don't have any tattoos.

Those are stickons ur sister gave you.

 

[8978]

Keep in mind. That scale has to be perfectly level or it will be off. If you stand on 2 bathroom scales and just move the slightest bit to one side the wight will change. It will still add up the same but will be different.

 

[blackw900]

And how far forward did you move it to get 1200 pounds?

Tim...You're blowin' it here!

When you move the fifth wheel forward, it transfers weight to the steers. The exact amount of weight that is removed from the drives will be put on the deters, none of this will have any effect on the weight that's on the trailer tandems.
When you move the fifth wheel back....It reverses the process.

 

[blackw900]

I still beg to differ. The teeter totter effect. If the weight is pushed forward it has to take weight off from the aft.It has to

Wrong...

 

[blackw900]

If you move the 5th wheel to add weight to the steers you have also increased the drive axle weight.

Nonsense!

When you move the weight to the front with the fifth wheel slide, it "REDUCES" the weight on the drives.....
Your brain's going soft.....Did you recently move to New Hampshire?

 

[Rigjockey]

I admit to being wrong. Moving the fifth wheel would only transfer weight between the drives and the steers. All it took was a bit of sleep.

 

[2xR]

This why I like pullin' liquids in a straight bore tanker. The weight ain't static. If I'm going downhill I'm heavy on the drives, uphill I'm heavy on the trailer, and, if I slosh it real hard before pullin' onto the henhouse scales, nobody can figure it out 'til trucks are backed up, out into the highway.

 

[Southern Fried]

Hmmmmm..... nitrogen is heavier than air, so if your tractor has nitrogen in the tires but the trailer is all air.... how much weight could you save by replacing all of it with helium?????

 

[Duck]

Hmmmmm..... nitrogen is heavier than air, so if your tractor has nitrogen in the tires but the trailer is all air.... how much weight could you save by replacing all of it with helium?????

I was at a Petro once & the truck at the next fuel island was a tanker with "HELIUM" written on the side. I pretended to be stupid just to be funny. I asked him how in the hell he keeps that trailer on the ground when it's loaded. He looked at me like I was stupid & said it's compressed to a liquid, blah blah blah. Maybe he was pretending to be stupid too, by not getting the joke.

 

[Southern Fried]

Kind of like the old "trucker's tale" about the guy who gets out of the truck just before running onto the scale platform and bangs on the side of the truck. He's hauling live chickens/bees and figures about half of them will still be airborne when he hits the scale.

 

[Injun]

Hmmmmm..... nitrogen is heavier than air, so if your tractor has nitrogen in the tires but the trailer is all air.... how much weight could you save by replacing all of it with helium?????

Research is a valuable tool:

The two most dominant components in dry air are Oxygen and Nitrogen. Oxygen has a 16 atomic unit mass and Nitrogen has a 14 atomic units mass. Since both of these elements are diatomic in air - O2 and N2, the molecular mass of Oxygen is 32 and the molecular mass of Nitrogen is 28.

http://www.engineeringtoolbox.com/molecular-mass-air-d_679.html

Since oxygen (O2) is a component of air and it's heavier than straight nitrogen (N2), the two elements mixed together are heavier than straight nitrogen.

Therefore, nitrogen is NOT heavier than air.

 

[Southern Fried]

Maaaaaa.... Injun's pickin' on me again!!!!!! Boy, it's a good thing you're cute.

Then tell me this now.... if Nitrogen is no heavier, how's come it sinks to the bottom of a container of air (eg, the empty space in a partly filled tank of liquid)???? Huh??? Huh????

And you didn't answer the question about helium either..... so there ms smartypants.