Talk about the weight police! You guys are suggesting that the OP needs a $1,000-$3,000 hitch to pull a 5,000 pound trailer with a F-250. What would he need to pull 6,000 pounds? A medium duty diesel? Some are talking about A-frame adapters and such. Lighten up. The OP will be happy with any of the reputable WD hitches on the market. In fact, I had a similar combination with no WD back in 2005-2006.
Good observation and good point. Some of us, me included, perhaps spent more time discussing the salient points of the two hitches instead of looking at what the OP really needed. Maybe a better discussion could have been towing on the ball with the 250 or using any hitch.
It is also interesting that I made a passing comment about one of the two hitches considered by the OP as being
entry level, my opinion based on owning one for several years, and others try to infer from what I said that I spent 100 times on this forum hating the hitch (not true) and how wrong I was to think it was an entry level hitch thrown in by dealers to make a sale. I don't hate or love a hitch, it either does the job or it does not and my comments number a handful, not nearly around the century mark. And in our area some dealers throw it in to make a sale. So where am I wrong with my opinion and observations?