mogator53

I have a three horse goosneck with living quarters that weighs around 10k lbs. with horses and all on board. One of my friends told me that the 2015 F150 would tow 12k lbs. (equipped properly). I live in Florida so it would all be on flat land, we tow only 2-3 times a month and never further than 250 miles. Would the F150 be a possibility? Thanks in advance. Sorry I posted this in the wrong forum originally.

5.0GN tow

Depends on pin weight. I pull a 3 horse GN with airconditioned tack room, not full LQ. We keep a lot of tack in there plus all our camping gear for sleeping in the room too. Still probably less than your trailer through.

My truck is a 13 Supercab 4x4 5.0 STX package, so pretty stripped as far as options go. We have power doors, windows, CC, basic sync, decent stereo, but no power seats etc. My payload is 1800 appx, so at 1060 on the pin I do ok. The weight won't get you overall but pin weight might. Mine is close but within the limits. If you do a light truck like mine you should be able to make it work. Your payload should be around 1800 to 2000 on a 15 like mine. Your pin loaded will probably be around 1200 to 1500 I would guess depending on how you load out and axle position.

5.0GN tow

Forgot to mention you can do a 3.5 eco or 5.0 either one and still probably be ok. I have on occasion exceeded 9k with my rig and been ok on payload but a bit over the tow rating and gcwr for my axle ratio of 3.55, but the truck handled it fine in 95 plus degree heat with high humidity.

mogator53

Sorry I should clarify that the trailer is 10,000 loaded with horses and tack.

5.0GN tow

I think you will be fine, as long as you don't load up the truck with options too heavy which will lower the available payload . I really like how mine handles. I have done nothing to the truck other than add the hitch, no air bags, springs etc.

5.0GN tow

Do you know your loaded pin weight?

mogator53

I don't. I am shopping around for a trailer too. Looking at the light weight aluminum trailers. The average empty weight of the ones we are looking at is between 5500 and 6500 lbs.

Velosprout

I used to pull a Hillsboro grain dump gooseneck trailer behind a 3/4 ton 4x4 pickup truck in the mid 1970's. It had a gross combined weight of around 18,900 pounds loaded and 7200 empty, so it could carry around 210 bushels of corn or livestock feed.


Although the 3/4 ton truck did a great job and eliminated the need for another large grain truck, running through soft fields, pastures, and up grain elevators ramps put a lot of wear on the truck. I had to replace a front differential, all u-joints, and New Process transfer case. I wouldn't think of subjecting a 1/2 ton to this abuse.


If your pin weight is 1300 pounds and bought a truck with 1680 rated payload on the door sticker, that leaves only 380 pounds for driver, passengers, and all personal luggage in the truck.


If this is only occasional weekend use and you are sticking to highways, a Heavy Duty Payload F150 with the 3.5 EcoBoost may work for you. The 3.5 gives you better torque and higher towing capacity. Only the Heavy Duty Payload Package gets you the payload and towing you need. For regular use almost every weekend throughout the year, additional longer trips, hilly terrain, or regular use on pastures and grass/mud/snow open horse campgrounds, a Super-Duty is called for.


Check out the specs at http://www.ford.com/trucks/f150/spec...ions/view-all/

5.0GN tow

If you can get the HD payload it would be better but you won't find a 15 that way, they stopped building them until 2016. That is why I recommended a lightly optioned truck, some of the 15s with light option packages like the stx have close to or slightly over 2k of payload.

Since you are looking at trailers too, that helps. You can plan the truck trailer package together. My trailer is a 2004 Sooner, empty weight is about 4550. So if your 3 horse gooseneck with LQ empty is about 6500, you will be at 9500 to 10000 loaded. We end up at 5800 to 6000 with tack, hay and gear aboard and 7800 to 8000 with two average size quarter horses loaded up. You will see some additional weight from water if you tow wet and propane etc. So I would plan on 9500 to 10k for your loaded weight with 5500lb empty weight with gear, water and 3 horses.

smurfs_of_war

If I might add?

I have no experience pulling a live load like 3 horses, but to me that is some pretty precious cargo back there- don't know if I would be comfortable on the bleeding edge with that. A 250 would do it better and be a hell of a lot more comfortable doing it. 3 times per month (x) 250 miles= 750 miles per month (x) 12= 9000 miles per year- just for a rough figure. I don't even put that many miles on in total per year, so it's more than you think. Sure a half ton will do it, but...

That's just my .02