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webejpn
Explorer
Jul 26, 2017

Did I just buy a 5th wheel?!?!?! What did I get into?

Some background. Been camping all my life. We recently sold our travel trailer that was sitting on some land we owned. We sold it with the land because I had no way to tow it hence why it sat at tha...
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fj12ryder
Explorer III
Jul 26, 2017
With a fifth wheel it's not so much what you can tow, as much as it is how much you can carry. By the time you add a hitch, and various sundries you'll probably be over 2000 lbs. in the bed of your truck rather than 1300 lbs. Hitch weight alone will very likely be in the neighborhood of 2000 lbs.

Figure 20 percent of the GVWR of the 5th wheel for hitch weight, since no one hauls an empty trailer.

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