tonylight999

I am receiving mixed signals as to whether or not my F150 can SAFELY tow a 35' camper. The weight is within my EcoBoost's specs, but I have heard that the dimensions of the camper behind my truck could be dangerous. The ecoBoost can pull 9,500 pounds, my camper weighs 7,200 dry and probably around 9,000 loaded.

My question is whether or not the height and length of the trailer could potentially be too much for my truck?

Feathermerchant

So many threads on this...
What limits you is PAYLOAD. A 10,000 lb RV will put about 1,400 lb on your bumper (including your weight distributing hitch). Your remaining payload will probably be less than 0.
What is the trailer tongue weight and your payload?

Steve Osborne

the eco will pull it...but will the truck hold it....I had close to 1200lbs...tongue/bed..

TooManyVehicles

.... of your PAYLOAD sticker!

tonylight999

brulaz

With only 1161# of payload, you will not be able to tow that trailer without going way, way, way over-weight. Whether that makes you unsafe, is argued about all the time. Personally I wouldn't do it.

11screw50

That just might be the lowest payload I've seen for an F150.

The length is generally considered too much for a half ton (I seem to remember some rule of thumb being wheelbase (in inches) divided by 5 gives you the max length you should tow).

Not that it matters though because with that payload, there is not much you can tow without exceeding payload unless you are the only one in the truck.

TooManyVehicles

Tonylight999 - Can you post your vehicle particulars to the thread in my signature? Year, cab, engine, etc. With a GVWR of 7200# and a payload of 1161#, you truck must have come with a ton of options to account for all that weight...6039# worth!

Tx King Ranch

Haha no kidding 11screw!! I feel better now as mine was 1470 pounds! Yay I have room to eat more lol!

smokeywren

The idiots that say you can safely tow that much trailer probably had trouble passing 3rd grade arithmetic.

My definition of "safely tow" is the rig will not exceed any of Ford's weight ratings when wet and loaded on the road. Your suggested rig fails that test.



No, it's not. You may be barely within the tow rating, but that's not the only spec you must be concerned with. Your limiter is GVWR of the F-150, and the remaining payload capacity you will have after you load the truck and be ready to back up to the trailer.



Yes, but not nearly as dangerous as exceeding the payload capacity of your tow vehicle.



Your tow rating is 9,500 pounds, so you can PULL a wagon-style trailer with no hitch weight that grosses up to 9,500 pounds, with your F-150 that has absolutely no weight in the tow vehicle except a skinny driver. But a tandem-axle RV trailer has hitch weight - lots of hitch weight, 12% to 15% of gross trailer weight is tongue weight, plus another 75 to 100 pounds for the weight of the WD hitch. If your guess of 9,000 pounds gross trailer weight is correct, and assuming the average 13% tongue weight, that's 1,170 pounds of tongue weight. Add another 100 pounds for the weight of the WD hitch and that's 1,270 pounds hitch weight. Oops! You're overloaded before you put even the driver in the tow vehicle, much less passengers, pets, or anything else.



Wrong question. How much trailer can you haul without exceeding the GVWR and payload capacity of your F-150? Certainly not a TT that grosses 9.000 pounds. And certainly not any TT that is 35 feet long, but because of the weight of the trailer, not the length.


But don't feel bad. My F-150 with 1,566 payload is slightly overloaded with my small TT that has only 650 pounds of hitch weight.