Will upgrade to 42ft widebody make me cry?
We're looking to retire somewhere around the spring of 2017 and are looking to purchase the Retirement rig in the near future so we can work the bugs out prior to hitting the road. We won't be doing t...
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I'd really like to thank everyone for their thoughts and opinions. In order to see what I would think of towing something that long, I sweet talked a workmate into letting me tow his 40 plus foot toyhauler around behind his shortbed Ford yesterday. Surprisingly, although I burned a quarter tank of diesel or so it only cost me a steak dinner for him and his wife. I found it was much easier to tow than I expected on the freeway and highway, and even felt good on a winding mountain road other than the truck being underpowered. The huge tail behind the truck was also every bit the pain I expected on surface streets. You'd really need to think and plan your trips ahead dragging that around. For background, I've never towed a fiver, but have drug bumper pull trailers for 40 years or so, often towing doubles with either a boat or atv trailer behind the camper.
Personally, I would be comfortable using the 24ft TT we currently have, but the wife finds it claustrophobic. That said, we've towed and used it all over spending well over 120 days in it, and dragging it around for approximately 21 thousand miles in the 4 years we've owned it. Not bad considering we both work. The 18 footer we owned prior to that only got used for actual boondocking type camping since the wife found it too small, resulting in us motel camping when doing travel other than actual camping trip type stuff.
I think the bigger rig when pretty much only be a wise choice if we were going to be spending a great deal of time in each location which isn't really how we envision our future.
Anyway, thanks again for the inputs. We've pretty much talked ourselves out of the giant rig, although it would be sweet when set up. Double glazed windows, dishwasher, big enough for me to have a doghouse so to speak should I maintain form and need one from time to time. In the end, the original plan we've had for the last few months of something in the 30 to 35 foot range that we can actually drag around a lot seems to be the smartest option. That's much closer to 28 foot total length bumper pull that I've found to be very comfortable and easy to drag just about anywhere. It will also mean we can still possibly take the atv trailer with RZR on it behind the 5er if the overall load, and of course handling of the rig make that viable.
Personally, I would be comfortable using the 24ft TT we currently have, but the wife finds it claustrophobic. That said, we've towed and used it all over spending well over 120 days in it, and dragging it around for approximately 21 thousand miles in the 4 years we've owned it. Not bad considering we both work. The 18 footer we owned prior to that only got used for actual boondocking type camping since the wife found it too small, resulting in us motel camping when doing travel other than actual camping trip type stuff.
I think the bigger rig when pretty much only be a wise choice if we were going to be spending a great deal of time in each location which isn't really how we envision our future.
Anyway, thanks again for the inputs. We've pretty much talked ourselves out of the giant rig, although it would be sweet when set up. Double glazed windows, dishwasher, big enough for me to have a doghouse so to speak should I maintain form and need one from time to time. In the end, the original plan we've had for the last few months of something in the 30 to 35 foot range that we can actually drag around a lot seems to be the smartest option. That's much closer to 28 foot total length bumper pull that I've found to be very comfortable and easy to drag just about anywhere. It will also mean we can still possibly take the atv trailer with RZR on it behind the 5er if the overall load, and of course handling of the rig make that viable.
