Heaviest 5er without a dually?

Walaby wrote:

Rangerman40 wrote:

azdryheat wrote:
I'd get a late model F350/3500 SRW. Properly equipped, a single rear wheel F350/3500 truck can handle a 5th wheel weighing in the neighborhood of 17,000 pounds.

Eh.... no. You'd be looking at a pin weight north of 4K. You aren't going to do better than about 4400 payload on a stripped down SRW. Add a full tank of fuel, the hitch and a couple passengers and you are over. You do see plenty of idiots out on the road pulling a triple axle toy hauler with a SRW though....

Isn't pin weight typically 20% of total weight. So a 17K 5er would be around 3400lbs pin right? Not north of 4K.

Mike

I've seen them up to 25% which would put him at 4250. All depends where the storage is and how it's loaded, but lets go with your example of 3400lb and a 4400 payload capacity leaving him with 1,000lbs left. I'll use my family and my hitch as example weights. A full tank of diesel ( 30 gal) weighs 207lbs, my hitch weighs 278lbs (Demco Autoslide), I weigh 250, wife is 130, kids are 45 and 35. Their car seats weigh around 10lbs apiece. That's 965 before we add anything else. I usually keep a cooler, a bunch of kid ****, whatever entertainment my wife brings, 10 extra gallons of diesel and 5 gallons of unleaded for the generator and my tonneau cover. Just blew that 1k out of the water. I didn't even add in the weight of the picture frame for the hitch because I'm not sure what it weighs.