32 ft class c
So after looking at 27 foot class c’s the family declared the sun seeker 2500ts too small and like the 3010dsf which is a hair over 32ft. What are the disadvantages or concerns with going that long? ...
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Rick Jay wrote:
Mich F,
For full disclosure, while your OCCC number looks good, from a CAT Scale slip you once posted on a different forum, you only have about 1,800 lbs. capacity on your rear axle. Almost 900 lbs. of your OCCC is unusable unless as rjstractor says, you hang a lot of stuff off the front bumper. (To piggyback onto rjs comments, when you put weight behind the rear axle, it not only adds it's weight to the rear axle, but the rear axle acts as a pivot point and it takes weight OFF of the front axle and transfers it to the rear axle too. Think of a see-saw.) A couple could probably live with that if they're careful about weight. But I think a family would be hard-pressed to keep it within the limits. But it really depends upon your intended use of the rig.
That 1,800# you're referring to was actually 1,780# ;)
It was 7,820# on the 9,600# rear axle. That weight was taken about 6 months after I bought the MH. I thought I was fully loaded with everything we needed . Last July about 5 years after the first weigh in I went over a CAT scale. I somehow gained a little over 1,100#. About 300# more on the front axle and about 800# more on the rear axle. Really can't figure out how I could have added so much "stuff". As of the last CAT scale weigh in I'm about 4,400# on the front axle and about 8,600# on the rear axle for a total of a little over 13,000#. I still have over 1,400# before I hit the GVWR and I'm about 500+ # under the front axle rating and about 1,000# under the rear axle rating. That 1,400# left over is more than some MHs have for an OCCC when they leave the factory.
