camper help

Nate,

What your drive-train / suspension "sees" is a combination load, camper and all your supplies for the duration plus the the tongue load. That's all your food, water, clothes, bedding, and any other "necessities" and then add the weight of the slide-in plus the tongue weight of the trailer.

Combined, it's very easy to overload the truck and not realize it. Think back when I moved from CO to UT. I ended up with a load that was 1K lbs over the axle gross rating after I dumped all the stuff I could and some I couldn't. I should have rented a U-haul truck, not a trailer, and towed the D-150

My suggestion: get a good, used motorhome. You would have more room and still be able tow your trailers . . just not to the off-road campsites.

Around here, a lot of off-road vehicles are towed in with ordinary motorhomes ( if you call 50 footers "ordinary"), which get parked near the area of activity, then the ATV, jeeps, whatever, are unloaded.

-- Budd Cochran

a motorhome would be incapable of accessing the places we go. if i didnt have a winch on the front of my truck i wouldnt even try getting there that way.

Then you have a problem, my friend, and it beyond my experience.

That size slide-in will definitely raise the center of gravity of your truck making a bad situation much worse. Not too many years back, according to some locals, a tourist tried to winch his slide-in rig to a spot in the slickrock area and the resulting accident left him in his family in the hospital for a month.

Will that happen to you? I don't know, I'm just asking you to be careful, please

-- Budd Cochran

I have a extended cab, long box, 1 ton, ctd with a slide in camper. When the fuel tank, h2o tank are full, groceries, clothes, golf clubs, the case of beer etc and the 2 of us in the cab, we are 200 pounds under the gvw

if you're going into country that rough, you will be tipping the whole thing over (can you say center of gravity) and losing the trailer down the hill when the hitch breaks off. Other than that, you'll probably have a good day.

bill

Nate... have you looked into "toy hauler" trailers??

Just made for family trips with off road stuff along...

mac

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I agree with using the toy hauler trailers. They also make an ATV rack that goes above the truck bed that will hold 2 ATV's and you can still use the bed for other stuff.

You could take up marbles as a hobby. They take up very little space and the money you save on all this other stuff would pay for hotel rooms until the second coming.

Precisely what I was meaning.

According to DC, you shouldn't tow anything with more than 200 pounds tongue weight, or 2000 lbs total.

-- Budd Cochran

How about a toy hauler trailer with a camper in the front. I see them all the time. A 4 foot touge with a 500lb tongue with a 500 lbs weight on it will not play well.

I also recommend the toy hauler option. I don't have one, but the ones that I've seen at the RV shows were impressive. Once you move the ATV's or bikes out of the trailer, the beds either fold down from the walls, or crank down from the ceiling. The crank down ones can be lowered partway, leaving the ATV's inside if you prefer (Although your ATV is pretty high with the roll bar, so that option probably wouldn't work and you'd have to park them outside if you wanted to use the extra bed). Any overflow (extra bikes) could be carried in the truck bed.

John

Darrell Bamsch wrote:

?? with a one ton dually?

people go through that area all the time with setups like im describing. we arent talking about rock crawling trails, just trails too rough to get a motorhome through. 4 wheel drive is mandatory.

sure have, not big enough for all our toys and gear.

So, where you go you need a winch to get in and out, but you can haul a 24 foot trailer in and out?? Something is not making sense here.

Al

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Well everyone...here's my take on this sitation. Nathan really doesn't want anyones recomendation, he has already made his mind up and no common sense from the peanut gallery is going to change his mind.

Nathan, quit wasting bandwith and simply buy what ever rig you have decided on. Good luck.

single axle.

Sorry, Nate. I forgot what you were driving.

But the point is the same, watch the center of gravity and the total load, friend.

-- Budd Cochran