Chapzter wrote:
Click on link below to see trailer info:
My Trailer Specs
I couldn't find a place to post pics, so I put them on this link. It's pretty heavy.
So now we're much closer to understanding what your real weights are likely to be, loaded and ready to camp ...
With a dry weight of 6780 lbs as the trailer sat at the factory it will land right around 6900 lbs with propane in the tanks and a battery on the tongue. Add at least 1000 lbs for everything else you're going to add to the trailer yourself, including allowance for some water in the fresh water holding tank and water heater tank, and you'll likely find this trailer's GVW, loaded and ready to go camping, will sit close to 8000 lbs. 13% of that is just over 1000 lbs so if you're considering a Blue Ox Sway Pro 1000 lb bars would do the trick as long as you're confident you can keep this trailer's gross weight within 8000 lbs. The caveat here is that with an
unloaded hitch weight of 880 lbs
where you load cargo will also have a significant impact on the trailer's gross tongue weight and if much of it is in a front pass through storage compartment it could force that gross tongue weight well beyond 1000 lbs and therefore into 1500 lb spring bars. As far as towing is concerned, this trailer is WAY too much for your 1/2 ton Sierra ... aside from anything else it just doesn't have sufficient payload capacity to carry passengers, any cargo you may want to throw it, and still have enough left over to accommodate this much gross tongue weight ... use your F250 instead.
