F-150 Crew Max Tow vs. Hideout 30ft TT

Terryallan wrote:


You must also realize that many folk can't leave ANYTHING at home and load their trailers up to 2000lb over dry. While many of us just take what we need to camp. Ususally less than 1000lbs.

Water alone eats up 487lbs of your 1,000 on my TT and better batteries is another 140lbs... so all the power to you if you can take food, clothes, pots/pans, bedding, kids stuff, leveling blocks, tools, chairs, table, etc and be under 1000lbs over dry. Maybe you camp where water and power are available (which around here isn't camping), but adding 1000lbs over try is very easy to do and not take too much stuff.

We are heavy, about 2500lbs over dry with food/clothes/etc for a 10 day boon-docking trip but nothing we take is really unreasonable and if it's not used for a few trips it comes out. But when you go 55 miles back on a dirt road you tend to pack a little heavy, it's a long ways to a store. On a 2-3 night trip we are only 1800-2000lbs over dry, and as mentioned some of that is now part of the trailer (hitch, batteries, 2nd spare, etc).

Heck we drive enough dirt that I bet there is a few lbs of dirt built up in my enclosed underbelly :-)

I'm also a big fan of dutch oven and cast iron cooking when camping and bet I have 100lbs of that stuff in the TT.