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Old 03-06-2022, 05:54 AM   #1
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Rear rack weight rating

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We have a 2018 keystone cougar 30rkswe, my question is what is the weight rating on the rear fold down rack?



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Old 03-06-2022, 06:13 AM   #2
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Crawl under your camper and look up at the frame. There should be a sticker that looks something like this. Unless it's come off and now missing. It will be stuck on the bottom, facing the ground, so you do have to get under the trailer to see it.

If not there, someone else will need to chime in.

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Old 03-06-2022, 09:55 AM   #3
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Old 03-06-2022, 10:29 AM   #4
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Thanks meaz,


I looked under the bumper and no decal, I was wanting to put my generator on the rack and it weighs about 140#. My concern is the bouncing down the road if it will be safe and I won't lose my generator. Perhaps I will just carry it in the back of my pickup.

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Old 03-06-2022, 10:50 AM   #5
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Old 03-08-2022, 09:00 AM   #6
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Something to think about? If you do put the generator on a carrier at the end of your camper, even if you have stout enough carrier that is no problem, ..... can the generator itself withstand that much up and down g-force attacking every spring and moving part, metal flex and everything else? It's just a question?
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Old 03-08-2022, 11:47 AM   #7
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If you for some reason put it out back I’d get a strong motorcycle chain lock…watched a rv couple video where the people had one of their small brand new generators stolen off the rear rack WHILE they were in stop and go traffic
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Old 03-08-2022, 12:33 PM   #8
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If you for some reason put it out back I’d get a strong motorcycle chain lock…watched a rv couple video where the people had one of their small brand new generators stolen off the rear rack WHILE they were in stop and go traffic
That would certainly make the case for a rear view camera!
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Old 03-08-2022, 12:39 PM   #9
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That would certainly make the case for a rear view camera!
Back in the 70s the guys I used to work with at my first company had a generator stolen right out of the back of a pickup truck while they were at a red light in Baltimore city …it happened so fast and the two guys just slinked off into an alley…my friend said they just both looked out the back window then at each other and were like….Wtf?..
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Old 03-08-2022, 12:47 PM   #10
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Let's draw an "analogy of use" for towing with a generator strapped to a rack on the rear of a travel trailer:

Would you pick your generator 1 foot off the ground and drop it repeatedly for 4 hours? And, once daily, would you drop it off the tail gate of your truck?

That's probably the equivalent of what "shocks and jolts" it would get from being strapped to a rack on the rear of your trailer for a 300-400 mile trip on today's roads....
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Old 03-08-2022, 12:59 PM   #11
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Back in the 70s the guys I used to work with at my first company had a generator stolen right out of the back of a pickup truck while they were at a red light in Baltimore city …it happened so fast and the two guys just slinked off into an alley…my friend said they just both looked out the back window then at each other and were like….Wtf?..
You can appreciate this. Back in the 1990's I had an HVACR contractor working for me that I had also taught in college. He was on the roof of the retailer I worked for at the time and I knew him well. He was in Baltimore a couple of blocks from Union Memorial Hospital and while on the roof someone stole his ladder. He learned to tie the ladder off after that.

While working for the same retailer I was down in the Adams-Morgan area across the river from D.C. I meet with an HVACR contractor to look at a way to install a replacement RTU because the building had exterior ductwoork. Anyway, he set the ladder and tied it off. He yelled down and told me to "fill my pockets with rocks before I came up." When I got on the roof he said the rocks were for throwing at the kids who would try to break into his truck every time he was there. With in 5 min they were trying to break in and he was in a battle throwing rocks. Ttheft isn't a new concept, at least not in the cities.
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Old 03-08-2022, 01:03 PM   #12
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Old 03-08-2022, 01:16 PM   #13
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Great thought!
Even though I have done this on another trailer doesn't mean it was the best thing to do. I think I will do like before many times, put it in the back of my pickup and cable lock it down.
Even though I do all dry camping the places I camp here in Idaho no one comes into your camp without asking. There is a reason for this, use your imagination
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Old 03-08-2022, 01:18 PM   #14
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Thank each and everyone of you for your response, you are all very kind.
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Old 03-13-2022, 07:21 AM   #15
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I would not carry the gen like that without first having a welding shop beef up the carrier. The standard weight limitation rating for most of the racks and carriers is 300lbs. The weight of a 140# generation bouncing up and down would far exceed that.
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Old 03-13-2022, 08:13 AM   #16
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Something to think about? If you do put the generator on a carrier at the end of your camper, even if you have stout enough carrier that is no problem, ..... can the generator itself withstand that much up and down g-force attacking every spring and moving part, metal flex and everything else? It's just a question?
I put my wen 2800 inverter on our rack from Ohio to Panama City beach last summer, used two ratchet straps and a 1/2 in cable and lock, custom cover, and was perfectly fine back there.
it will be fine, but. id get a cover for any rain. I had a friend who makes boat cover make mine out of the same material.
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Thanks, I did the same thing on a Harbor Freight aluminum rack and ratchet strapped the rack to my hitch and strapped down the generator to the rack and I do have a custom cover and it worked fine.
I have decided to just put it in the pickup bed as I have room and pull the pickup closer to the rear of the trailer.
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Yep you will be fine…just use a couple of straps lol
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Yep you will be fine…just use a couple of straps lol


A guy was parked behind me a couple weeks back. His back tray looked a LOT like that. Had 2 totes on 1 side and a small Mastercraft (looked like a Smoke Hollow) grill on the other. It was strapped 9 ways from Sunday and then to the ladder, a couple went under the trailer...I don't know where all. His rack looked about like that...like it would hit the ground at any minute. Had an old 1989 Tioga Class C parked near us a few weeks back and his back tray looked the same - all a step from going to jail or a lawsuit.
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Yep you will be fine…just use a couple of straps lol
After the first 20 miles or so "he didn’t even know it was back there."
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