1/2 Ton Towable 5th Wheel
Hello: Does anyone have a 5th wheel that they say can be towed by a 1/2 ton truck? Are you actually towing it with a 1/2 ton truck and what kind of truck do you have? I had originally thought t...
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2012Coleman wrote:
Weights listed in the brochure or on a web site are grossly inaccurate. Dry weight is usually nothing loaded, including battery and propane tanks. Since your calculating capacities, most people will say to take the gross weight of a TT and multiply it by 13% to calculate tongue weight. This gives you some wiggle room because your most likely not going to load it to it's full capacity. So if you took a TT with a 6000 lb gross weight * 13%, it gives you 780 tongue weight. Subtract that from your TV's payload - you mentioned 1772, and you have 992 lbs left over for everything else.
I was under the impression that you already bought the truck.
Some mfrs, Jayco in particular (because I was shopping them), has a yellow sticker on all their rigs, that shows the net CCC for =that= specific rig as it left the factory. That includes one 12v battery and 2 =full= 30 lb propane bottles. It also shows the fresh water tank size and weight, when full. I need to re-check the sticker on my KZ 'cause, for the life of me, I can't remember.
Lyle
