Effects of where the weight is on a trailer

Link would not work. However my view is that heavy weights to the rear are not particularly hazardous so long as the centre of gravity of the unit isfar enough forward to give a good noseweight.

Which rather shows the difficulty some have in understanding the effects of inertia, as opposed to simple mass balance.

Also rather shows the difficulty some of us have trying to put a damn video  on a forum! Shame, it is an interesting video where the madel car and trailer is on a rolling road and the trailer is weighted biased to the front, he pushes the trailer and it self-corrects. Moves the weight further back, pushes it, and the car and trailer go into a severe snake. Any new tow-ers here may have found in informative.

This one, assuming it works?

https://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=player_embedded&v=4jk9H5AB4lM

That works ok

I like the toy Mustang.

Sorry, tried to make the link live but it doesn't want to play ball.

Don't worry TW. Ocsid's link can be cut and pasted into the browser.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=player_embedded&v=4jk9H5AB4lM 

thanks, jeff. Makes interesting watching.

It illustrates the point but is a bit extreme.