Dry weight vs. ready to go weight.
For the newbies who are TT hunting this may be of some use. The dry weight on my 25 ft. Dutchman is listed at 5004 lbs. Tongue weight is said to be 462 lbs. (about 9%) Twice I weighed my rig wi...
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SoundGuy wrote:Campfire Time wrote:
While I agree that people can load different amounts of weight, by using the GVWR as a guide you will never be wrong on sizing your tow vehicle.
Of course you can! :( Rigs spec'd with so much CCC that very few would actually use could convince one it's necessary to go up a category in tow vehicle, say 3/4 ton instead of 1/2 ton, when in fact it wouldn't be required at all with a reasonable cargo load. If a trailer's GVW, loaded and ready to camp, is comfortably within it's GVWR then fine, use the GVWR as a worse case scenario, but if GVW with a practical load is several thousand pounds below GVWR then it would be a horrendous mistake to use GVWR as a guide in determining which tow vehicle category would be necessary to safely tow that particular trailer. Good grief, no wonder so many newbies find the subject safe towing so confusing! :S
I have one of hose trailers, and it's not a toy hauler! My trailer has a 4100lb CCC. Of which I only use 1800-2000lbs of. So if I went by the 11,200lb GVWR, I wouldn't have bought it. My dry weight is 7100 lbs.
