Finding Towing Vehicle for Horse Trailer
Hi All, Been attempting to crunch numbers based on our existing 2-horse trailer to find an appropriate towing vehicle, but I keep getting lost in all the numbers (GTW, GVWR, GCWR, hitch weight, pay...
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Son in law had a pair of draft horses he sold. To my surprise the guy who came to pick them up towed them with a 14 Ram 1500 Hemi. All I know is it was a 2 horse bumper pull. I tow TT with 14 1500 (1/2 ton) Ram Ecodiesel so I'm acclimated to towing with the same truck except for the motor. He had a crew cab 6.5' bed with 3.92s E load tires & air bags. His only complaint was fuel economy. I didn't think ask about TW or look what hitch he used or to look if he had a factory trailer brake controller.
The Ram 1500 has a max TW of 1,290 with WDH per Rams body builder site. A proper sized & set up WDH adjusted per Cat scale results should take 1,500 pounds of static TW (At least with TTs) and distribute about 1,300 between the TV axles (actual seen TW) and the other 200 back to the trailer axles. Boarderline indeed. I have no doubt this would work well but I suspect it would not hold up well long term and a little rough terrain. The hitch or receiver might break and would likely happen at the worst time. Not necessary that it would result in an accident more likely to be just an embarrassing inconvenient pain in the butt.
The Ram 1500 has a max TW of 1,290 with WDH per Rams body builder site. A proper sized & set up WDH adjusted per Cat scale results should take 1,500 pounds of static TW (At least with TTs) and distribute about 1,300 between the TV axles (actual seen TW) and the other 200 back to the trailer axles. Boarderline indeed. I have no doubt this would work well but I suspect it would not hold up well long term and a little rough terrain. The hitch or receiver might break and would likely happen at the worst time. Not necessary that it would result in an accident more likely to be just an embarrassing inconvenient pain in the butt.
