Knowing your Center of Gravity

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Most often that is affected by a heavy right foot more than the static center of gravity.... which is the topic of this thread.
Quite right to clue in everyone that static calculations will only give a false sense of security.


The other scary thing is the trend of the industry to just lift, and throw weight on the roof rather than engineer a low roll center.
I love this design
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Or this from 30 years ago.
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The Lower Forty Concept comes to mind.

 

[Metcalf]

That is how I built my flatty...as low as practical.....

It takes more work, but it oh so worth it in the end.

 

[85_Ranger4x4]

There's a grain elevator scale left on 24/7 near me I use the same way.

They might not be the most accurate thing to use to measure axle weight. They are made to have a semi tractor balancing on them so there is a good chance IMO the back end of a Jeep/pickup on one end is going to skew it.

I know when we used to weigh pulling tractors on them you had to get in the middle or you had no chance of ever getting a consistent weight, we had to be +/- 10% of our weight class and how you were sitting on the scale would mess with it.

Measure both ends and then weigh the whole vehicle and compare A+B should be close to C.

No idea what my CGI is or any of that. I just try to avoid the crazy crap. Once well placed bounce and all the calculations and figures are going to go out the window anyway.

 

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They might not be the most accurate thing to use to measure axle weight. They are made to have a semi tractor balancing on them so there is a good chance IMO the back end of a Jeep/pickup on one end is going to skew it.

I know when we used to weigh pulling tractors on them you had to get in the middle or you had no chance of ever getting a consistent weight, we had to be +/- 10% of our weight class and how you were sitting on the scale would mess with it.

Measure both ends and then weigh the whole vehicle and compare A+B should be close to C.

No idea what my CGI is or any of that. I just try to avoid the crazy crap. Once well placed bounce and all the calculations and figures are going to go out the window anyway.

I drive a Tacoma, so basically the same weight at a loaded semi.

Good point, though. The scale I mentioned is accurate enough to get my weight right when I exit the truck, and the maths work out as you suggested.