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Claudia · RV-Dreams Community Member

tow vehicle

Ckerr · RV-Dreams Family Member

Claudia, just clarifying... Are you wanting to tow the F150 behind the RV? If so it might work best to post in the "Toad" category.

Afraid I can't help answer your question. We're just beginning to research towing our Avalanche. The "Toad" category is where I look for help.

If you are wanting to tow your camper with the F150 you might try posting in the "Tow Vehicle" area. I don't know much about the F150, but I suspect it can only tow a very light trailer. It would be similar to my Avalance and it's not capable of towing much!

-- Edited by Ckerr on Wednesday 6th of October 2010 10:25:26 AM

Terry and Jo · RV-Dreams Family Member

Claudia,

Based on the "almost" identical posing in the campgrounds catetory, it appears that you are wanting to tow WITH the Ford F150.

For your benefit, there is a thread in the "Tow Vehicle" category where I posted a link to an online source for Ford brochures. I think the 2005 model is one of those that are available.

You can check the brochures at that source to see what your F150 will tow, based on how it is equipped.

Here is a link to that thread in the Tow Vehicle category. You can then find the link there to the online source.

http://www.activeboard.com/forum.spark?aBID=91511&p=3&topicID=38436136

Terry

Edit: Fixed the broken link. Apparently the forum doesn't like posting links in Firefox.

-- Edited by Terry and Jo on Wednesday 6th of October 2010 11:51:05 AM

-- Edited by Terry and Jo on Wednesday 6th of October 2010 05:46:09 PM

flyone · RV-Dreams Family Member

Claudia, with out looking closer at the situation--in general you should be able to tow (if that is what you are asking) a newer model (light weight) mid size travel trailer, 25 to 27 foot or so. Just guessing but your tow weight is probably around 8,000 lb. With a newer light weight trailer in the range of 5,000 lb empty weight and with 1,000 to 1,500 lb of stuff in it you should be ok. My friend tows a Jayco Jay Feather light--(I'm not sure of the model number) but it's right at 26 foot and he has no problems. I say newer model only because of newer lighter construction methods--such as aluminum structure instead of the older method of wood. In an older model, because of weight you may have to go to a shorter length. Of course you need to run the numbers to make sure your truck will handle what ever trailer you find. Keep in mind a salesman will tell you "sure your truck can handle this trailer" just to make the sale. Be sure and check it out yourself so you know what your weight limit is prior to looking at trailers. Its all about the weight, but it is easily do-able.

Flyone

rclvnv · RV-Dreams Family Member

Claudia, All of the comments to your post are valid. I simply want to stress the importance of doing the numbers yourself,rather than listening to RV dealers,etc, when it comes to this catagory. Since we needed a new truck, we decided to buy the truck first,and so, bought more than we currently need,a 2010 F-250 DSL,in anticipation of fulltiming later with a much heavier unit. As an example, we currently have a 23'TT, with one slide,which weighs 4800 lbs dry,and can take another 2300 lbs of load. It is a new aluminum framed unit.No problem for the DSL, but would probably be just about right for the F-150. I've seen people tow much larger, heavier units with the truck you have, but remember, it is about stopping and handling ability as well as pulling power. On a cross country trip this summer, we encountered a few situations where I wouldn't have wanted to be under powered,or under braked.

Richard

-- Edited by rclvnv on Wednesday 6th of October 2010 04:09:14 PM