Simnut

Love my outdoor kitchen! We found a design that wasn't a BH model and HAD an outdoor kitchen. Ours has a 4' wide by 5' high door on 'er...lots of room for stuff and the door is a great rain umbrella!

seanb61

Agreed, that double bathroom will be nice when the young kids are sleeping no need to flush the toilet near them and wake them when I come in from the fire and beer. Also, the shower in the full bath is HUGE and better than any campground shower, so no complaining by wife that the shower sucks.

Now, before I do anything I have to sell my 2014 Rockwood Roo 233S Hybrid. Anyone intersted?

seanb61

Update

dealer weighed the tounge weight for me. Came in at 780 pounds with empty plastic tanks and no battery. Better than expected.

clarkbre

Given that number alone is actually helpful. Say you add the 20 lbs propane (they are each 37 pounds when full) tanks and a battery (1 is much lighter than 2) or two and gear, you could keep the tongue weight at or just under 1100.

Even if the tongue was 1100 and the trailer was fully loaded at 9250, that still gives you a tongue weight at 11.8%...well within the 10-15% range.

acdii

More than likely the FWT will be in front of the axles, so keep that in mind as well when filling. Not all the weight will go to the ball, but a percentage will. I distribute the trailer weight to have a full fresh tank and empty or partially filled waste tanks. You never know when you might need water and are miles away from the nearest faucet. I think on my Coleman the weight transfer is somewhere around 10%, so for the 40 gallon tank it adds around 32-36 pounds to the ball.

clarkbre

ACDII makes a good point. Water WILL change the way your truck and trailer handle. I tend to run mine as empty as possible. Maybe 5 gallons in the fresh tank for flushing the toilet and rinsing hands. But, other than that, we run it pretty empty. A full fresh tank on mine is 46 gallons so it can easily add 380 lbs close to the front of the trailer.

seanb61

I run without water, or maybe a few gallons. We have small kids and aren’t dry camping mostly yogi bear campgrounds and such.

acdii

We don't dry camp either, but have traveled across Utah where there are long stretches with no service, 120 miles in one area, and having a full tank vs a 1/4 or half tank is more stable as no room to slosh around and these tanks are not baffled. You can always do a weight test with a full vs empty tank and see just what percentage transfers to the ball like I did. You never know, it might not add as much as you think.

Another consideration, that weight is under the frame, which can help stabilize the trailer in heavy winds, acting as a counterweight.

seanb61

Sold the old Hybrid 233S Saturday and pulled the trigger on a new Jayco 29BHDB custom ordered with our options list today.

Thanks to everyone for commenting on this, it mostly made me feel a bit more confident about my choice for my towing setup.

I can't wait to take delivery in mid march and post some follow up pics of the rig.

Got a KILLER, KILLER deal on the trailer and if anyone wants details on the deal I can provide.

Gladehound

Congrats on the new trailer! I think you'll be able to set it up fine. Like you said, you'll be close but it should work. Once you figure out all the actual weights on a CAT scale, I would then move things forward in the travel trailer to increase tongue weight as much as possible without exceeding any weight limits. Then adjust the WDH accordingly. Doing this will move the center of gravity on the trailer forward and that is the most critical thing you can do to make a trailer stable.