towing with 1/2 ton
I will be going to Colorado and have a 2010 F150, towing a 2014 jayco x23b. Just under 4000 lbs dry prolly figure 4700 loaded. I have hauled all over Missouri and it's your typical hills and it pulls ...
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rexlion wrote:Bobbo wrote:
I have a friend who is a retired RV salesman. That is what he did all his life. He towed a medium/large fiver with his F-250 for years before deciding to go out west. Driving through the Rocky Mountains, he went up a medium grade, crested the top, and went down a steep grade into the valley. When he tried to make it up the steep grade on the other side, the truck couldn't pull the fiver. He turned around to go back to find another route, and the truck couldn't pull the grade the other way either. He ended up having to trade his truck for a bigger truck to get his fiver out of the valley.
Moral of this story, don't use trust a marginal set-up.
What?? Not even in 1st gear? Hard to believe.
A 4wd would have been beneficial in such a case. Shift into low range, first gear... plenty of slow speed power to the wheels.
It is what he told me. He wasn't bragging.
