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 Duct Tape Can't Fix Stupid
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Location: Warsaw,NY | I have a 07 chevy duramax 2500 HD. short box. I just bought a Lakots 15'sw 3h w/slide 8' wide.. my truck pulls it great and stops great. Lakota is all aluminum so empty weight is 9900lbs. i only haul 1-2horses and do not do long distances very often, mostly 1-2hrs. When i do need a new truck i will be going 3500, not sure if i will do dually or single axle. |
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Sock Snob
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| you might want to go to a heavier ply tir. on your truck. |
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  Never miss a good chance to shut up.
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| Dually one ton. With that 15 ft. shortwall and slide you will have a lot of weight. I have a simple 4 horse with tack room and my gross vehicle weight is 12,500 just on the trailer. The dually will give you much more stability and the longer bed will too. |
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 Accident Prone
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Location: 100 miles from Nowhere, AR | Your pin weight is likely at the max or higher than your tires are rated for with a SRW. Horse trailers are weighted differently from RVs, so trailer weight doesn't tell the whole story. |
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Married to a Louie Lover
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| hezasmashnsixcess - 2016-06-04 5:34 AM
I have a 07 chevy duramax 2500 HD. short box. I just bought a Lakots 15'sw 3h w/slide 8' wide.. my truck pulls it great and stops great. Lakota is all aluminum so empty weight is 9900lbs. i only haul 1-2horses and do not do long distances very often, mostly 1-2hrs. When i do need a new truck i will be going 3500, not sure if i will do dually or single axle.
You have bigger kahones than I do. My fiancé has hauled heavy goosenecks his whole life and agree my Lakota 3H 8'W 9'SW would be better suited to the tonner dually vs the '08 Duramax I had.
I had him drive one day when there was a pretty stiff wind and he agreed, tail wagging dog. The difference is night and day - I just hauled almost 4hrs to the race I'm at and it was a breeze. I know in the 2500 I would have been white knuckled the whole way.
I'll reiterate the lack of turning radius with a short bed and a 8' wide trailer. We can almost jackknife our 6'9 and 7' wide trailers on our short beds, can't get remotely close to it with the 8' - the same driveway we whip the other trailers around in got the window the first time, it would have been impossible to turn around. If you stay with the short bed you MUST think ahead before you get a trainer hat big into a situation you can't get out of.
I'll add that depending on the truck you have and whether or not your currently have a payment you might be surprised how you come out truck shopping. I traded the 2500 on the 3500 and the difference was $9/mo in payments. Dealers can move a 2500 to a guy who wants a big toy. A 3500 dually takes a specific client. |
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 A Somebody to Everybody
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Location: Under The Big Sky Of Texas | With a trailer that big you really should be pulling with a one ton dully no less for safety reasons for your's and who ever is hauling with you and the other drivers.  |
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The Advice Guru
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| The tires won't handle the weight when you are loaded. What are you willing to loose when your driving 60mph and a rear tire blows out, do you have life insurance, equine mortality insurance? As the blowout could be life threatening |
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Location: home for the winter...what a dumb idea | Wow this is a bit of a scary post....I hope none of you guys pushing your trucks to the limit ever have to see what can happen when a tire goes... |
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Industrial Srength Barrel Racer
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| Rodeo_cowgirl - 2016-06-05 6:15 PM
Wow this is a bit of a scary post....I hope none of you guys pushing your trucks to the limit ever have to see what can happen when a tire goes...
NO kidding! It simply AMAZES me the huge rigs people pull with less than enough truck! |
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 Good Grief!
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Location: Cap'n Joan Rotgut.....alberta | I agree..very scarey.....just the other day at a jackpot i saw a big 4 horse with lq or a big ass tack room...hooked on to a 1/2 ton gas job...i kid you not.....M |
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Industrial Srength Barrel Racer
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| mruggles - 2016-06-06 9:30 AM
I agree..very scarey.....just the other day at a jackpot i saw a big 4 horse with lq or a big ass tack room...hooked on to a 1/2 ton gas job...i kid you not.....M
I too have seen this and about freaked!
When I bought my 3 horse, 8' short wall, I pulled it home with my 3/4 Dodge Diesel and went and traded the truck in on a 1 ton. I'm sure the 3/4 ton was plenty but it had to WORK to get through the Flint Hills and it about wore me out driving it.
I'd just rather have too much than not enough when it comes to trucks. |
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