Do you like towing?

[Whitehall]

We're picking up our new Snow River 245RKS next week. My only previous TT towing experience is with a rental hybrid trailer, and a rental tent trailer. I have a lot of towing experience with a pilot house fishing boat weighing about 7,500 # total.

Being a rental, the hybrid didn't have a WDH and it wasn't really balanced well with my truck at the time, a 2006 Dodge 1500. Didn't brake well and was kind of a pain to tow, especially down CA SR 20 into Fort Bragg. I like towing my boat most of the time, although the surge brakes can be annoying and vertical changes in the pavement such as bridges can be jarring. The F-350 handles it, though, and I really don't miss towing with the Ram 1500.

I can get in the groove and just cruise along at about 62 mph, except I-5 where the pavement is busted up and I watch the bouncy boat in the mirror give the torsion axles a workout. Curvy roads don't bother me too much, as long as they have enough radius and width. The small fuel tank on the F350 SB is in sync with my coffee drinking habit, so we stop every two hours, at least.

At nearly 12' high and about as long as the TT, the boat has gotten me pretty well accustomed to turning wide and looking up. About the only thing I'm not looking forward to is traffic and SoCal drivers when we head that direction. Oh, and the Stockton area on I-5. The whole thing. People drive even worse there than LA.

How about you? Anything that you dread, towing-wise? Do you get in the zone and rack up the miles?

[ChooChooMan74]

I enjoy it, although it was a bit of a handful with the Libby. Did 3500 miles in 2 weeks with her. Retired her and can't wait to tow with the new EcoDiesel.

[Vintage465]

I very much enjoy towing. And it really doesn't matter what it is we are towing. That is likely because if I'm towing something somewhere, I'm going to enjoy life when I get there! Coming from and RV shop my dad owned and we as a family all worked there and I am a custom to pulling with well set up rigs with W.D. hitches and sway controls and all the lights and brakes working well. I have to say the only stretch I remember taking that I was really done towing and could wait to back on a main straight interstate was when I came down Hwy 1 into Fort Bragg. The next day when we got to San Francisco...gosh Hwy 101 looked great! I was in a 1985 Diesel Suburban pulling a 25' Nomad Bunkhouse, packed pretty heavy. I would hate, hate, hate being caught on a road or highway that was covered in ice or snow. Otherwise.....up for what ever the road brings me!

[Thom02099]

Anything that you dread, towing-wise?

Being here in the Colorado Rockies, we have a diversity of terrains to traverse. Big cities? We got 'em. Boring plains? Yup, got that too. Snow? Wind? Torrential rains? Yup, Yup and Yup. What we have though, that a lot of folks don't, and won't experience is....Shelf roads. Those mountain roads that climb and climb, and are narrow, with harrowing drop offs and no guard rails. Add in altitudes of 10000 feet plus, and you have a winning combination for dread, towing-wise! :E

But...to answer your original question...yes, in general I like towing. Just a matter of using a lot of common sense and appropriate caution.