Grit dog wrote:
Gdetrailer wrote:
Usmc68 wrote:
Thanks for all the replies. Yeah, the F250 is only 4x2 but it does have the 8' bed and crew cab, so 4 full size doors and seats. When I go to the dump she comes in around 7200K with a full tank. It does have the camper package so electric brake wired and extra cooler and leafs.
4x2 saved your bacon, 4x4 easily adds 800 lbs..
Might have 1800-2000 lbs of cargo to work with as a rough guess.. Verify that for sure by checking your GVWR and subtracting your known unladen weight.
Should have enough cargo for 1500 lbs worth of tongue weight or up to 10K GVWR with 15% TW..
No bacon to be saved, what are you even talking about?
And your math is, well, off a little.
How much is 10k - 7200? I’ll help you here. It’s NOT 1800-2000.
Why do you bother replying with weird supposition? Especially when it’s actually contradictory to things like, um, math?
I think you are a little weird and reading comprehension is not high on your list. So, I will t y p e t h i s s l ow l y.
OPs truck weighs 7200 per OPs post, got that?
Now. we know that Ford LIMITs F250s to 10,000 lbs GVWR MAX, got that?
Typically F250s will have max GVWR of 9,900 lbs (AKA 10,000 GVWR), got that?
Now we can take 9,900 lbs GVWR of the truck, subtract 7,200 lbs (OP weighed) and the cargo is 2,700, got that?
But that does not include DRIVER, PASSENGERS or anything else they have put into the truck, got that?
Assuming 250 lbs for driver and 150 lbs for another passenger we can subtract that from 2,700 lbs, gives 2,300 lbs, got that?
Now we know the OP isn't going to have a complete truck bed of fluffy pillows so say 500 lbs of misc stuff, gives us 1,800 lbs, got that?
Now for the trailer..
We know that 10,000 lb trailer should have 1,500 lb TW at 15%, got that?
We also know that a 7,000 lb trailer should have 1,050 lb TW at 15%, got that?
Now, if the OPs truck was 4x4, that would have removed 800 lbs of available cargo weight from the truck which would remove the hopes of a 10,000 lb GVWR trailer, got that?
Not unusual to end up with a decked out to the max Diesel F250 4x4, crew cab with long bed with the top tier package and all the bling to have available cargo below 1,500 lbs.. Perhaps not as bad now days but certainly was an issue early 2000's and older.
I DO know F250s very well, been buying them since 1997..