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Gordo


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Hello everyone my name is Gordon, and will be soon Fulltime RVing once the house is sold, plan to put it on the market next month.  I attended the RV Dreams Rally in Hershey a number years ago and had beed planning this for the past couple of years.  I'm now retired (Twice) and will be solo rving with my dog.  I purchased a Ford F350 turbo diesel short bed.  I plan on getting a 5th wheel.  Questions:  what kind of hitch would be best for a short bed, also planning on getting a used 2011 Wildcat 343FLR made by Forest River.  Has anyone know any thing about this 5th wheel?  Does a $2000 a month budget seem possible? I'm retired military and plan to stay at RV parks on military bases, has anyone had any issues with using miitary rv parks?  I'm sure I will have lots more questions once my home is sold.  Thanks in advance for any advice. 



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Welcome to the Forum Gordon, someone will be along shortly to answer your question, I just wanted to say.....Good to have you!!!

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Welcome Gordon.....Single RVing is a good thing,your gonna love it out here and there is a great bunch of people and helpful info here!!!!!!


Im a Class A type so I cant help you on the hitch

2000 a month is doable , there are several of us that run on less!!!...(of course the price of fuel is not helping again)

there are alot here that use the military parks and I have not seen any complaints

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Gordon,

Welcome to the RV Dreams forums.  You will find a lot of help here.

With regards to a hitch for a short bed truck, you will want a sliding fifth wheel hitch, but you'll have to decide whether you want to work with a manual one or an automatic one.  If you go to Google's "YouTube" link and type in the words "sliding fifth wheel hitch," you'll get a lot of answers.  From what I've heard from one person, they said that the Pull-rite hitch did as it was advertised, but they really didn't like the way the hitches worked.  That "automatic" action on short turns always kind of "got to him."

Good luck with your research and planning.

Terry



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