Lightening tongue weight
It has occurred to us that if we just camp alone, with nothing in the TV but ourselves and a bag of potato chips, we're good with the tongue weight. But after subtracting it from our payload, we don'...
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I am sorry, that is an extremely sad, selfish way of life.
That was awful harsh not knowing his level of experience towing...I can tell you I have had Deer/Elk and Bears run out in front of me towing without harm to me or my rigs..I've had a trailer try to pass me in the mountains on snow and ice and have run chained up on the tow vehicle and trailer and slid down mountain roads dropping the bars to "add" weight to the rear axle...
And I can tell you with certainty that my current F-150 is as capable as any 3/4 ton I owned and towed with and theres a 2500 HD in my driveway for use if I wanted...Towing what we have here up to a 10K wood trailer, there is absolutely "No" difference in towing experience..
My F-150 is as capable as my older GMC and Chevy 3/4 tons....
I know there probably have been,but I have never seen a 1/2 towing wreck but I have seen alot of 3/4 ton wrecks because there popular on forums like this and new people buy them thinking there king kong on the road just like those that think a 4X4 solves snow and ice,they don't..They help if you know what your doing,thats all.
Don't take this post wrong..I am not saying to tow overloaded with anything but I am saying towing at Max with a capable rig with a capable driver is safer than a new guy with his 3/4 ton,some of which don't have more payload than a HD 1/2 ton,but you new that.
There are more important things in towing than payload which is as crazy as towing capacity in my book.There both there from these manufacturing genius's as well as combined truck/trailer weight...
If one is wrong,there all wrong.No or do we pick and choose which is right or wrong:B
When it comes to weighing the wife's purse because I don't want to be a few over,I'm out and overloaded for sure but she won't be hollering all week/month/year long about the bumpy ride of that 3/4 ton every time she goes over a bump or the noisy diesel.Yes,I owned a diesel!
I recommend every new Rver starts small and works up as experiences grow towing in different conditions!!!
