Towing a horse trailer with TC

If the camper hangs off the back, you will need to extend the truck hitch, unless you modify the trailer with a longer hitch. E-trailer sells truck extensions. You want to make sure the trailer never comes in contact with the camper.

He has:

http://www.rv.net/forum/index.cfm/fuseaction/thread/tid/29923864/gotomsg/29923892.cfm#29923892

For a horse trailer, because of the weight, I am thinking you are going to want a Torklift Super Hitch and Super Hitch extension.
I don't haul that heavy with my Northern Lite as I just haul an ATV trailer. I do know somebody who also has a Northern Lite and she hauls her two mules all over the place and she has a Super Hitch and Super Hitch extension on her Ford Super Duty dually.

I used to haul a single axle two horse trailer loaded to the hilt with hay on top for two weeks way back in hunting, with an 8ft overhead TC with a standard hitch on a beefed up GMC half ton pickup..this was on one of Idaho's roughest washboard roads,the middle fork of the Boise river to Atlanta Idaho..

If possible,I choose not to use an extension , which means a smaller TC..I do use an 18" solid bar extension with my currant 9.6 for TC but I just haul a 17ft trailer with a Yamaha rhino on it and gear...

Anything larger than say 18" for an extension really gets spendy and puts your actual trailer hitch in question..the whole setup is for rich folk..(Laffin)

I've towed a lot of trailer equal in weight or heavier than a two horse trailer while camper is on truck.

Geewizard wrote:
Did you use any kind of hitch extension to do it?

If the camper extends past the rear of the truck, then yes, you will need a hitch extension, otherwise you run the risk of the trialer contacting the truck when turning.

Thanks all.

In many years of hauling a large trailer behind an 11.5 foot camper with a stretched trailer tongue instead of a hitch extension, I’ve never had any issue with the trailer hitting the camper. I don’t have any heavy junk to attach and remove whenever I load my camper, either.

Years ago I hauled an 10 1/2" camper and a 4 horse dressing room trailer. I had a 40" extension built for the trailer tongue and ran that for about 8 yrs

well one of the above posters referenced me. I have a superhitch, 48" supertruss, Husky weight distributing hitch with 1200 pound bars. If I was going to do it all over I would only make one change. Superhitch Magnum (not made when I got my setup). You are towing a trailer with live animals. Its a completely different consideration from those towing box trailers. I am not risking my horses lives to save a buck. The superhitch, 48" supertruss with a WD hithch is rated to safely deal with a 1200 pound tongue weight. nothing else comes close.