kc81c wrote:
Finally got around to posting this. Combo is a 2011 F250 Crew Cab Short Box 4x4 6.7L with a B&W companion hitch. GVWR of 10k, front axle 5600 GAWR, rear 6100 GAWR. The fifth wheel is a 2011 Heartland Sundance XLT 285BH listed as 31ft with a empty weight of 7200 pounds and a GVWR of 10000#s. It was the wife 2 kids and I in the pickup 2 dogs in the camper all our clothes, food, full propane, few tools ect basically ready to camp. The only odd thing when weighing was we had been camping at the inlaws yard that had no place to dump and we were heading to the lake lot were we have no easy water but a place to dump. So we had the black, grey 1, and fresh tank full and the grey 2 tank half full roughly a total of 150 gallons so around 1200 pounds and I usually try to travel with the fresh half full and the waste tanks empty. My weights are as follows.
Front Axle 4800#
Rear Axle 5360#
Front Trailer 3640#
Rear Trailer 3560#
Tow Vehicle Total 10160
Trailer Total 7200
As you can see I'm over my GVWR on the pickup by 160# but could easily be fixed by not filling all the tanks full or moving some of the tools from the front of the trailer to the back. Otherwise I have a lot of room to spare on trailer GVWR, GAWR, and GCWR. Pulling the trailer at 70mph I get around 11.5mpg with 3:55 gear ratio.
I got a PM about the way I weighed. I think they were refering to the lack of an unhitched pickup weight. So I ran over a scale again my unhitched but loaded with the family, fuel, hitch ect was 8360 so that puts me at a pin weight of 1800 pounds. Right at the trailer gvwr but like I said it was a worst possible situation and would be easy to drop 600-900 pounds. Also with some searchin I found my campers frame tag and pin box tag both are rated at 15500# gvwr. The factory load range D tires would have limited the axles to 5k each. I intend to do some more looking I'm curious if the are actually 5k or 7k axles now. I hope this clarifies the missing info. Its pretty easy for me to run over a scale as the local elevator we mostly use is only a few miles away.
