optimal 5er carrying capacity
Hi. I'm considering a number of 35-40 foot 5ers for full timing. I just read a comparison guide by Randall Eaton that I bought from JR Consumer Resources. In this, the author reports that payloads (GV...
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45Ricochet wrote:
JFYI ours has ~3k worth of CCC and even fully loaded for a 6 week venture I'm only at about 2k lbs of gear. 3k lbs is a lot of shoes for the DW :B
JMHO but the author's article is either old news, or bad news.
...very similar to our situation...Big Horn 3055RL with GVW of 14000 pounds and a dry weight of 10950 pounds...I live in my fiver for extended periods. The next deployment will be for 9 months. My worst case scenario so far has been when loaded for a ten day trip with no services...With 75 gallons of water, empty holding tanks and all our gear with Deb and I in the truck, we weighed 13500 pounds on a CATS scale...so loaded for "boondocking", we only had 2500 pound aboard...
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