Life With a 37' TT

mtofell1 wrote:
Apparently, the soap boxes, assumptions and advice are all getting bigger too these days. I was really just asking for experiences about towing something.

"soap boxes" aside, anytime you post something you should always expect answers or comments that do not support your ideas or notions..

"Supersizing" was mentioned by me.. Not sorry for that comment at all, all in all it is the truth.

Keep in mind a 37ft tongue to bumper trailer plus hitch shank of 1 ft and your tow vehicle length of 22ft-24ft depending on size of cab and bed you are as long as 62ft.. Pretty much in the tractor-trailer length of a semi (aka "18 wheeler"). At 62ft you are now greatly limiting places you can go and some places completely and even the "easy" places can now become a challenge..

62ft doesn't bend much gives you a much wider turning radius, takes much more planning for fuel stops, parking and so on. If you insist on the extra length you might want to consider an extra fuel tank so you can skip the real small cramped gas stations (which is most of them)..

You have to really eye up the entrance/exits of every place you go, too steep and you risk high centering it.. Even the ones you think are fine you WILL be dragging and scraping..

I found a big difference from my 20ft to 26ft for dragging, never dragged the 20ft but have done it lots of times with the 26ft.. The tongue jack has been scraped pretty hard and even my spare tire holder which is behind the jack has needed some repairs (had to make a new one from scratch the last time I dragged badly)..

You, yourself even mentioned something about it wasn't YOUR "idea" and YOU are the one having to "deal" with it. Why make things harder towing for yourself just to be a "bit more comfy" INSIDE the trailer?

If what you have now works for you then why bother, kids WILL be gone in a few years then you will have a huge trailer..

I don't buy into the upsizing thing, I grew up in a three bedroom house.. FOUR of us boys in ONE BEDROOM, TWO sisters on another bedroom and Mom and Dad in the third bedroom.. We had a bath and a half and we survived the ordeal. Now days that would be considered cruel and unusual punishment.. If I used todays way of thinking we would have to had 9 bedrooms (two bedrooms for His and hers "offices") and at least 8 bathrooms..

If you "want" a 37ft TT and you don't mind the extra hassles then go for it..