Here's mine. It is a 99 starcraft 30 st. 5500 dry about 6500 loaded. Pulls great around here and to the beach. Going to the moutains over easter so we will how it does in the mountains.

 

Boy, you guys have some massive Kahones. I have a 4,200# pop-up, and I am sweating my first trip this sping (mind you I have always driven Superduty diesels). The way I look at it, I'm already in trouble. Towing weight is one thing, but payload is another. I have seen somebody's pics on here with a Stone over Arizona Beige Supercrew dragging a Coleman/Fleetwood pop-up almost identical to mine, and his rear end was sagging. I calculate that after I deduct the weight of the items I take with from the lousy 1,550# payload - food, clothing, camping gear, firewood, vehicle fuel, four passengers, AND deduct the tongue weight of my camper, I am overweight by at least 320#. Yeah, I know she'll haul 10,000, but what about payload, which includes the tongue weight? I'm already thinking that a Superduty truck (even with a 5.4L) may be in order next time because of this. Am I missing something here? I remember hauling bags of cement with my 2005 Supercrew a few years ago, and you could see the rear end go down with every bag. I didn't get half of what I was used to hauling in my F-250, and I had to return the rest and go home and get may trailer. When camping, my pop-p doesn't offer the luxury of adding the take-alongs to the trailer (instead of the truck bed) as their is not any room inside the unit when folded down. Can someone offer some insight here? Thanks.

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You think thats big check out what I use to pull, 6250 lbs empty, and I made it to the beach and back then right to the dealer to trade for something lighter. BTW that was 35 feet long.
I did it with little trouble I just didn't want to tear the truck up by pulling that much weight around for the next five years.

 

Get yourself a weight-distribution system. That will distribute part of the tongue weight to the front axle of your truck as well as back to the trailer's axle(s). You'll be more than fine with that setup.

 

One good one that is reasonably priced is the Equalizer brand. One of the best places to get it is Rvwholesalers.com and they usually run around $399 delivered. The Prodigy brake controller is also one of the best and they have them for around $100.

 

I have a Springdale 260TBL which is about 5200 dry and conservative (meaning on the heavy side) estimate of 6500 loaded. Check out this link for some rules of thumb (GCWR is really what you want to base it on, etc.) on what you might look for as well as there are some spreadsheets for doing some calculations on weights. Also, be aware that the dry weight that MFG's list on their website may or may not be accurate and to look inside the cabinet door of the trailer itself for the actual weighed weight.

Not sure what sort of terrain you are talking about but we go over the Cascades with ours and I am very comfortable with it. Get a tranny temp gauge...

 

Thanks Crowe10 for the Link, it has alot of valuable information.

 

Well I am currently stationed up here in North Dakota and the terrain is flat as can be but I do plan on taking the trailer on trips to Pennsylvania, Florida, and Oklahoma. thanks for the link it does have some good info, it also looks like I'll be buying an equalizer hitch and I already have the Edge Evo to gauge my tranny temps.

 

We could park our truck and trailer inside some of these Big trailers. Someday we hope to move up too. Maybe not to 30'+ though. Aint gonna fit in the garage!