9500lb vs 7600 lb trailer
If you have seen our other posts, we are in the process of buying a new old stock travel trailer, a 2014 Forest River Cherokee Grey Wolf 29BH. We haven't confirmed the deal yet, but we are close to ...
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SoundGuy wrote:Keen Family wrote:
Payload capacity for the truck is about 2050 lbs. The tongue weight of the lighter TT is 650 lbs, and the heaver is 950. Again, within our capacity, but once we have passengers and gear, only just.
Not even close ... gross tongue weight of any trailer should ideally be in the 13% to 14% range of it's gross trailer weight loaded and ready to camp. With any trailer this size that means a gross tongue weight way beyond these unloaded hitch weight numbers as the trailer sits at the factory ... WAY higher.
That's the link to the 2016 models. The 2014 Grey wolf has a CCC of 2456 lbs. I couldn't find published data for the 2014 284BH. From similar trailers, its probably between 2500 and 3100 lbs
