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Message: <blockquote data-quote="mmsllc" data-source="post: 95899" data-attributes="member: 13117"><p>First off, I am very surprised to see that anyone would give axle placement much thought, but that is HUGE of you to consider it. (I am assuming that you have to remove / change an axle anyways.) Nevertheless, the most ideal tongue weight of any trailer is a mere 10% of the trailer weight. The other 90% should be fully supported by the running gear (tires, axles, springs, etc.). I understand that you don't want the majority of the weight odd this 743 to behind the rear of the axles or the center bracket. But, how far back will that require your axles to be set? If they are too far back, it will require you to swing much wider than with a normal trailer with an average placement. Another note worthy question is, how will this trailer handle other loads if you are not moving the 743? When I built my first 6x12 trailer, I was advised by a trailer builder to move the center bracket 12" past the center line of the trailer body; not including the tongue. I went an extra 3" past that just to be safe & increase tongue weight / down force on the rear axle of the towing vehicle. When I was done, it rode just perfect / not too tongue heavy as long as I placed the load at the trailer's center line of the body. I would only caution you not to place the axles too far rearward. What are you towing this trailer with? If you are using a heavier truck (3/4 or ton), then you may not notice too much extra tongue weight. I'm going to try to post a hell of a heavy trailer for a 3/4 truck. I will post it under this thread if it lets me. The reason I want to post it is because is because it was VERY tongue heavy, even with the load being placed over the center line of the trailer. Every single pot hole had the front end of my truck pulling off the road = it was kinda doing a see-saw thing with the rear axle being the fulcrum.</p></blockquote><p></p>

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