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mountainkowboy's avatar
Sep 19, 2018

Real World Weight

So I was interested in what my "real" weights were with Red and the S&S. I know loaded and ready to camp we came in at 10,460...3,640 front and 6,820 rear...when we went on our 5 week Pacific NW run a few years back. Yesterday I weighed the rig without water, clothes, food, and people/dog and got 9,160...3,120 front and 6,040 rear. So today I dropped the TC off and weighed Red with 1 tank full and the other at 1/4, same as yesterday and got 5,740...3,000 front and 2,760 rear. That puts the S&S at 3,420, add 30 gallons of water, food, and clothes and we get 4,350. WOW, I knew the S&S was heavy, but I thought Red was around 6,300-6,500, I'm as heavy as the TC's with a slide out.

The S&S has a sticker that states wet weight at 3,050...that must be before ANYTHING was put on this thing....TC with water and propane only, no jacks, brackets, A/C, mattress, window treatments, nothin, completely stripped.

Hope this helps someone down the road who is contemplating getting a TC. The manufacture weights are a bit low for reality...LOL
  • That's the way it is if your interested in the numbers..Mine is like 2582 empty and I am within a couple hundred pounds of meeting my max GVWR on said DRW.

    Out of curiosity I counted the cupboards/drawers, anything that slid out and had a latch for storage of some sort..28 drawers/pull outs in my non-slide 9.6 Lance and there all full.One reason I am over the usual 1000 pounds over the sticker weight and close to max GVWR on a F-350 DRW...

    More storage and my wife will fill it..(laughing)