Looking to purchase a travel trailer
Hello, my name is Rose and I am retiring in one year, I have been looking at the Winnebago Minnie Winnie and Lance both seem to be all weather terrain durable, I just bought my Silverado 1500 LT to pu...
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TomG2 wrote:
The single most physically demanding task with travel trailers can be installing the weight distributing hitch. I would pick a trailer light enough that a weight distributing hitch is not required. Secondly, cranking the trailer tongue jack can be tiring but an electric tongue jack will take care of that. Glad to see that you are looking at travel trailers as they are the simplest RV of all.
Very few trailers are a comfortable safe tow for a half-ton pickup without some type of weight distribution/sway control.
I've investigated this myself, as a woman who will mostly be travelling alone. My boyfriend has an Equalizer hitch that does a great job, but it is very heavy. I can barely pick up the hitch head. I'm planning to investigate Anderson hitches, since the entire assembly weighs under 60 lb.
The second physically hardest is probably cranking down the stab jacks. A power drill for those, plus an electric tongue jack, can make the entire job much easier.
