mogator53

I found a trailer I am going to look at but the pin weight is 2220. Smurf we only camp from Oct-May its too damn hot the rest of the year. LOL. The main places we go are within 120 miles of us the farthest is 250. But I do see what your saying.

5.0GN tow

If you are going that heavy on the pin get a 250. You could squeak by maybe with a HD payload 150, but it would be dicy. I am at the upper limit of my truck and don't feel at all unsafe and I tow almost every weekend a couple hundred miles. The live load is different but not too bad. My trailer has brakes on all four wheels set up to stop its max gvw of 16800. I never get over half that most weeks so it stops and hauls very nice. Towing with a 150 takes putting a lot of thought into trailer selection.

mogator53

I found one with a pin wt. of 1200. It's a shadow trailer and is 6200 pounds dry wt.

5.0GN tow

That one should be good to go. Do you haul 3 or 2 and use third stall for storage? That is how we do it, I keep the front stall open and put the horses on the axles in stall 2 and 3.

mogator53

Most of the time we will have 2, but we do have three horses and when I go with everyone we will take 3. My wife and daughters horses are 13 and 14 hands each. Both weigh under a thousand. My boy is a quarter/belgian mix. He is only 14.2 hands but as thick as any horse I have been around he is about 1200 lbs.

5.0GN tow

I think with the lighter trailer you will be good to go. Do you have to load out water, or do you camp where they have hookups? If you can avoid hauling lots of water, you will save a lot of weight. Shadows are pretty solid trailers, and usually pretty light

mogator53

No, we don't load up. Most of the places we stay have hookups.

5.0GN tow

I just wondered, most places we go are the same way. We don't have water in ours but even of we did I am not sure I would fill up since hook ups are there. It does give you more pin weight room for sure without water aboard.

Boulevard

10,000lbs, 2-3 times per month, max 250 miles per trip.....not a chance with an F150. That's not to say that the F150 won't give you several months of good running but after that you are going to be looking at a constant stream of drive line repairs followed by some serious pre-mature wear issues.

A good 2-wheel drive F250 will tow the crap out of any F150 and will easily do it year after year without giving you any sort of maintenance headaches. You may also find that a so called properly equipped 4x4 F150 is actually more expensive than a vastly superior 4x2 F250.

mogator53

I should say that we probably tow no more than 2 times a month and only travel that far 1 or 2 times a year. Don't know that that will make a difference.