Anyone pulling 37 Foot "Travel Trailer" TH?
After all my research and looking at toy haulers, I'm leaning towards a Cherokee Wolk Pack 2512. It's a 37 foot long "bumper pull". I'm wondering what kind of hitch set up I'll need to safely and smoo...
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Not a Toy Hauler, but my Outback bumper pull is 35 and 1/2 feet long. Pretty close to your length. I use an Equal-i-zer 4 point WD hitch system. It's easy to hitch and unhitch after it's set up. Never had any problems.
About the length, I went from an 18 foot, to a 31 foot, to 35 1/2 foot bumper pull trailer. Except for watching turns a little closer, and making slightly wider swings, and being a bit more patient in town stop-and-go traffic, the towing experience is really no different from the 18 footer to the 35 1/2 footer. Baking is MUCH easier with the longer trailer than the short one.
If your truck is capable of handling the weight of the trailer and all contents, after about the 2nd trip with the new trailer, you'll be very comfortable with it and wonder why you ever had concerns at all.
If memory serves me, the wheel base of a Toy Hauler is usually longer than a TT of the same length. The axles are set back a little farther to accommodate the weight which can be added in the garage. If a TT and a TH of the same length were side by side, the axles would be in a different spot. The distance of the axle will cause the trailer to track different than a conventional trailer. BUT, there again, after the second trip, it will be "old hat" to you. You'll have the feel for it down pat!
Your choice of WD hitch may be more challenging for you than for me however. If you tow your TH empty (no toys), you've now removed a considerable amount of weight off the back and just make the front heavier, and the opposite is true. You may have to use a WD system that will allow you to change the tension when the trailer is loaded and empty. This is the only thing you'll need to figure out. Having never owned a TH with toys, I'm not sure of the impact toys in the garage has on the hitch, especially a bumper pull. But it is something you need to figure out. Better now than later.
Good luck! We've been considering TH's for years, but just can't seem to get away from the tradition trailer.
About the length, I went from an 18 foot, to a 31 foot, to 35 1/2 foot bumper pull trailer. Except for watching turns a little closer, and making slightly wider swings, and being a bit more patient in town stop-and-go traffic, the towing experience is really no different from the 18 footer to the 35 1/2 footer. Baking is MUCH easier with the longer trailer than the short one.
If your truck is capable of handling the weight of the trailer and all contents, after about the 2nd trip with the new trailer, you'll be very comfortable with it and wonder why you ever had concerns at all.
If memory serves me, the wheel base of a Toy Hauler is usually longer than a TT of the same length. The axles are set back a little farther to accommodate the weight which can be added in the garage. If a TT and a TH of the same length were side by side, the axles would be in a different spot. The distance of the axle will cause the trailer to track different than a conventional trailer. BUT, there again, after the second trip, it will be "old hat" to you. You'll have the feel for it down pat!
Your choice of WD hitch may be more challenging for you than for me however. If you tow your TH empty (no toys), you've now removed a considerable amount of weight off the back and just make the front heavier, and the opposite is true. You may have to use a WD system that will allow you to change the tension when the trailer is loaded and empty. This is the only thing you'll need to figure out. Having never owned a TH with toys, I'm not sure of the impact toys in the garage has on the hitch, especially a bumper pull. But it is something you need to figure out. Better now than later.
Good luck! We've been considering TH's for years, but just can't seem to get away from the tradition trailer.
