Wheel house tongue weight

[eagle_3464]

For those of you who started with a 14ft Miltona frame, what do you have for tongue weight on your finished house? I am building my own frame and would like to keep the tongue weight under 150# so it is not so heavy on the wheeler. With the house modeled and weights included I will need the axle at least 9" farther forward than a miltona frame. Does that sound posible and will it still trail down the highway with the lighter tongue weight and shorter wheel base?

[fsnrod]

It will not pull very good with that light of tongue weight. Pulling it with a wheeler you might load the back heavy. The wheeler will probably handle more then 150 lbs tongue weight.

[Lip_Ripper Guy]

What kind of wheeler?

My house probably has in the neighborhood of 750-1000# of tongue weight, and my Honda 450 pulls it just fine due to the solid axle. If you have IRS you can get bars to lock the suspension. You should easily be able to handle 500# with any ATV on the market.

150# of tongue weight isn't going to go down the road at more than 40mph.

[Greenhornet84]

We have about 220 lbs of tounge weight on our 6.5x12+v axel is 6" back of center on the 12 ft section if that makes sense. Pulls well up to 70 mph.

[JSK76]

You want 10 to 15 percent of the fish house weight as tongue weight. Just a word of caution when pulling a fish house with a wheeler and especially with little tongue weight is when going down the boat access it can actually lift you four wheelers back end off the ground. Me and my boss just had this discussion yesterday. He had a trailer loaded heavy in the back and was going down the hill to his lake and it picked his Sportsman 500 up and he went flying off luckily out of the way but it jackknifed the trailer and it sound like it was a twisted up mess.

[eagle_3464]

Thanks for the input guys. Thought maybe I could cheat the 10% to 15% rule but guess I better stick to it. I have a sportsman 600 that I will be using for early ice and I'm concerned about the suspension squatting down. LRG, what are these bars to lock the IRS you talk about? I am positioned now for 11% on the ball.

[JSK76]

I have the bar made buy Kolpin I think it was advertised under the Dirtworks line. Huge improvement on my Sportsman 500. It actually sits higher the stock with it attached and stays that way with the house on it.

[Gus]

I have the bar made buy Kolpin I think it was advertised under the Dirtworks line. Huge improvement on my Sportsman 500. It actually sits higher the stock with it attached and stays that way with the house on it.

We have the same one for our sportsman. Easy on/ easy off. Works well.