towing a sailplane trailer / vehicle

John,

As someone said, "Power corrupts. Absolute power is a pretty neat
thing." Or something like that. So a bigger engine would be alright
by me! :-)

Not sure how I could shift enough of the contents in the trailer to
get the tongue weight down to the featherweights you mention. It
would be a job of shifting the axle. Yea, with money, anything is
possible. I have seen a trailer, maybe it was an Anshau Komet, that
had several available mounting points for the axle, which in theory
should make shifting the axle around a bit less complicated. My Swan
has no such arrangement and any axle shifting would be all of my
problem.

While the V-6 Honda Accord was a great car, but a poor tow car for my
particular trailer, it was probably time to trade it in anyway. It
had almost 210,000 miles on it. Not nearly as many as my old '88
Accord with 396,000 miles on it when an errant driver going the
opposite direction decided to turn in front of me. That idiot's move
totalled out the old blue Honda. And I'm still ****ed seven years
after the wreck!

Oh, and not only is the Subaru rated to tow the trailer, it has all
wheel drive, in case I need help getting out of a cow pasture, and a
bit more ground clearance than the Accord, again better suited for
driving over rather than through the cow pies.


Ray Lovinggood
Carrboro, North Carolina, USA


On Oct 30, 11:06*am, John Smith wrote:
rlovinggood wrote:
lbs with a 100 lb max tongue weight. *Turns out that 180 lb tongue
weight of the new trailer came very close to ripping the hitch off of

This is ridiculous. There's no reason to have a tongue weight of more
than about 30 to 40 pounds. That you bought a new car rather than
rebalancing the trailer is even more ridiculous.

If Europeans want a faster plane, they refine the aerodynamics. If
Americans want a faster plane, they mount a bigger engine.