what do you pull with your 2500?

[RDedrick]

I have a 03 2500 and I am looking at getting a rv. I was wondering what everybody else was pulling with their 2500's.

 

[TGibbs]

12k living quarters 4 horse with 4 horses and tack and all our junk grosses trailer at 17k or so. Usually we haul it with the freightliner sport chassis but we didnt have any in stock at that time

 

[larneub]

I pull a 25 ft. travel trailer, weighing 7800 lb. and a 16 ft. stock trailer with 4 horses. Have had no problems yet and decent fuel mileage too.

 

[CLAYTON]

I have a 31. 5 ft Jazz 5th wheel. Weighs about 10k+ depending on how I got it loaded. Sometimes there will be a jeep or trailer with bikes on behind it. Towes great

 

[JMetzger]

I pull a 32ft Holiday Rambler TT, weighs right at 10k with no problem. Pull it all over the US, been in all 48 states.

 

[mjendrejcak]

during the warming months I help my freinds by hauling their equipment. Heaviest haul to date, was 3 yards of topsoil in the bed and a bobact 435 excavator.





For personal use. hauling antique tractors to shows. Now looking for a travel trialer.

 

[ScottLewis]

I've pulled my 31' fifth wheel all over US for nearly 7 years now. It is just over 11K but with the minor mods I've made (see sig. below) it handles fine. One never has enough power to be fully satisfied. I typically get 13+ mpg overall towing at about 60mph loaded, better if I go slower.

 

[DaveHess]

I pull a 29' Jayco Eagle TT weighing in at a little over 9,000 pounds in camping dress. The other trailer is a 20' Felling FT-7E car hauler with a 1973 Plymouth Scamp ProET Drag Car weighing in at 4,850.

 

[RonCar]

33ft. Rampage toy hauler, loaded for a week it's around 13500, we love it and never enought power like someone said before...



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[fritzbo29]

We tow a 38 foot Cedar Creek 362BTS. It is a really nice RV, and the little shortbed pulls it like a tugboat. The picture I am trying to upload is at Togwotee pass in Wyoming going up and over to Jackson Hole. Loaded and weighed this rig is about 500lb below the max capacity. I have a hot juice/attitude and Stage 2 AFE, 4" exhaust with cat removed. Sorry if the picture is screwy, this is my first attempt at a picture!



Fritz

 

[MRosinski]

I tow a:

24' enclosed car hauler 9,500 lbs. 3-4 times a month

20' deckover w/ demolition equiptment 5-12,000 lbs. once a week

20' dump trailer filled w/scrap steel 10-15,000 lbs. 1-2 times a month



truck is in stock form now due to trans problems :{

 

[ohnoitsyu]

Wow! Scary! I'd be willing to bet that at a couple of you guys are legally overloaded - and you have only D-rated tires! For everyone's sake (not just your own), please be careful - the life you save may be your own.



And blah, blah, blah, yeah I'm sure you've never had a problem. Most say that before accidents. I'm sure the guy this thread is about never had a problem before, either: http://www.glamisdunes.com/invision/index.php?showtopic=24262

 

[CUMMINZ]

36' Cedar Creek now

I tow 36' Cedar Creek now but have traded it for a 37' Cedar Creek-Day Dreamer. I have also purchased a 2006 3500 DRW CTD. The Day Dreamer is pushing the limits of the 2004. 5 2500.



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[EricBu12]

This is the 2003 36' Raptor toyhauler By keystone..... Fully Loaded is 15K total



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[cwsoules]

Our 29' single slide 5er weighs 10. 4K.

 

[pcarlson]

I tow our 33' Cardinal with no problems, loaded with no water 12,500.

 

[KLockliear]

Not much.



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[KWheaton]

Wow! Scary! I'd be willing to bet that at a couple of you guys are legally overloaded - and you have only D-rated tires! For everyone's sake (not just your own), please be careful - the life you save may be your own.



And blah, blah, blah, yeah I'm sure you've never had a problem. Most say that before accidents. I'm sure the guy this thread is about never had a problem before, either: http://www.glamisdunes.com/invision/index.php?showtopic=24262

A 15,000 lb. 5'vr is overloading a 2500 series truck, but who sold you the D rated tires you have on your truck? I've got E's on mine, came that way from the factory, have always bought E's for the truck and the trailer I haul. I even went across the scales at 19,600 lbs. (400 lbs. shy of max. ), the truck handled that load like a dream. Well I bought D's once, cause they were cool, took them back after I towed a 24ft. Haulmark trailer loaded to maybe 7500 lbs. , that thing swayed all over the place.



The guy in that thread you mentioned was driving a Ferd, that's the problem. :-laf I've seen so many overloaded vehicles it's not funny, what scares me is the RV dealers that advertise 1/2 ton towable 5'rs. Those dealers are telling the buyers anything to sell a rig. I've had dealers ask me what I'm towing with, they hear Cummins and figure I can pull anything they sell, even 41 ft. toy haulers with a gross of 17,000 lbs. I just shake my head cause I know some guy will think thats not a problem for a 2500 series truck and buy the darn thing!



I am considering a 32 ft. Victory lane with a gross of 13,500 lbs. , it'll put me over by 1500lbs. but I need the extra room. I put so darn much money into the 01' I have, I can't sell it for what I have into it to buy a 3500. Besides, me and that truck go back a ways, it's grown on me, I'm gonna drive the wheels off it!

 

[Hitec.Redneck]

30' Terry @ 10000 pounds.

 

[terrywerm]

Mostly just pull our 30' Dutchmen fifth wheel, comes in just under 10K. Pulls it great.



The real strain is when pulling loaded 450 bushel gravity boxes on the farm. They weigh in around 25k but none of the weight is on the pickup, and I don't exceed 20 MPH with one of those in tow... getting stopped could get ugly if going too fast.