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| Looking for a new truck. I am not much of a Ford person but found a reasonably priced 2013 F150 5.0 V8 4x4 with a cold air intake system. I am hoping to purchase a 3 horse bp trailer (currently have a 2 horse bp) this summer as well. I normally only haul 2 horses plus a few bales of hay and water caddy. Would that be too much for that particular truck? I currently haul about 3 hours away max. I plan on hauling a lot more next summer 4-5 hours every other weekend. Thanks! ETA: It has AirLift 5,000lb suspension Airbags. Do those make any of a difference on the suspension?
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Location: Adopt a homeless pet - www.petfinder.com! | gypsykalgirl - 2016-03-21 11:51 PM
Looking for a new truck. I am not much of a Ford person but found a reasonably priced 2013 F150 5.0 V8 4x4 with a cold air intake system. I am hoping to purchase a 3 horse bp trailer (currently have a 2 horse bp) this summer as well. I normally only haul 2 horses plus a few bales of hay and water caddy. Would that be too much for that particular truck? I currently haul about 3 hours away max. I plan on hauling a lot more next summer 4-5 hours every other weekend. Thanks!
To me it isn't about pulling, it's about stopping. I don't like to haul anything more than that 2-horse with a half-ton, but I'm conservative when it comes to safety so... |
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Location: Michigan | It will certainly be able to pull it, most any truck can pull far above what they are rated to. The real question is if it can safely handle the trailers weight at highway speeds and under emergency conditions.
A lighter 3 horse should not be a problem, a big heavy 3 horse with living quarters would be a different story. If you are going to do quite a bit of hauling I would recommend a 3/4 ton HD truck just for the added durability. |
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 Cute Little Imp
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Location: N Texas | A 3-horse bumper pull with a small tack room up front is fine, especially if you normally only haul 2 horses. I pulled a trailer just like that all the time when I had an F150, usually with 2 or 3 horses. |
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Location: West Texas | That is too much trailer for the truck you are looking at. If you needed to pull it a few times, it would do it ok, but you will be unhappy if that is your routine set up. Too much weight for the engine and transmission to have to routinely pull that much and definitely too much for the suspension and brakes. It will wear everything out much faster. Bumper pulls need a heavier truck than goosenecks as you get more sway and the weight being off the axle more. |
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Location: Kentucky | I would feel comfortable pulling a 2 horse with an F150, but not a 3 horse.
PS - Cold air intakes really don't do much, either. Don't like them sweet talk you with that. |
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Location: Wonderful Wyoming | I pulled a 2 horse bumper pull with my 1990 1/2 ton. It was all it could do with 2 horses. Even the trailer that was an older and not real heavy model was heavy for it. I left early and got home late kind of thing. It stopped it ok, but honestly anything more would have been too much. A gooseneck will pull better IMO. |
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Location: Roping pen | I have a 2013 F150 4 door with 5.5' box. I tried to pull a 14' bp flatbed trailer empty with it ONCE. Never again. Just the tongue weight alone, about raised the front tires off the ground. Is squatted something terrible.
Same pickup with 500 lbs in the box (feed) almost makes it un-drivable.
Ford does make a max tow option on the 8' box F150. We had one on them also, it handled a 18' gooseneck stock trailer with 4 horses in it fine. Was a extended cab ecoboost.
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| Tdove - 2016-03-22 9:22 AM
That is too much trailer for the truck you are looking at. If you needed to pull it a few times, it would do it ok, but you will be unhappy if that is your routine set up. Too much weight for the engine and transmission to have to routinely pull that much and definitely too much for the suspension and brakes. It will wear everything out much faster. Bumper pulls need a heavier truck than goosenecks as you get more sway and the weight being off the axle more.
I am glad you brought up the sway factor. My friend just bought a Ford F150 with a 5.7. It is a 4 door short bed. We had to take her horse to the vet last week. She pulls a 2 horse with a small dressing room. I was surprised at the sway I felt. She had previously pulled with a dually. BIG difference in the feel. I am not knowledgeable about trucks and I am sure there are several factors at play, but I did not like the feel at all. |
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Location: Kentucky | GLP - 2016-03-22 12:27 PM Tdove - 2016-03-22 9:22 AM That is too much trailer for the truck you are looking at. If you needed to pull it a few times, it would do it ok, but you will be unhappy if that is your routine set up. Too much weight for the engine and transmission to have to routinely pull that much and definitely too much for the suspension and brakes. It will wear everything out much faster. Bumper pulls need a heavier truck than goosenecks as you get more sway and the weight being off the axle more. I am glad you brought up the sway factor. My friend just bought a Ford F150 with a 5.7. It is a 4 door short bed. We had to take her horse to the vet last week. She pulls a 2 horse with a small dressing room. I was surprised at the sway I felt. She had previously pulled with a dually. BIG difference in the feel. I am not knowledgeable about trucks and I am sure there are several factors at play, but I did not like the feel at all.
I don't think Ford makes a 5.7? |
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Location: N Texas | Murphy - 2016-03-22 11:31 AM
GLP - 2016-03-22 12:27 PM Tdove - 2016-03-22 9:22 AM That is too much trailer for the truck you are looking at. If you needed to pull it a few times, it would do it ok, but you will be unhappy if that is your routine set up. Too much weight for the engine and transmission to have to routinely pull that much and definitely too much for the suspension and brakes. It will wear everything out much faster. Bumper pulls need a heavier truck than goosenecks as you get more sway and the weight being off the axle more. I am glad you brought up the sway factor. My friend just bought a Ford F150 with a 5.7. It is a 4 door short bed. We had to take her horse to the vet last week. She pulls a 2 horse with a small dressing room. I was surprised at the sway I felt. She had previously pulled with a dually. BIG difference in the feel. I am not knowledgeable about trucks and I am sure there are several factors at play, but I did not like the feel at all.
Mine was a 5.4, but it was a 2003 model. I have no idea if they've changed. |
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| Murphy - 2016-03-22 11:31 AM
GLP - 2016-03-22 12:27 PM Tdove - 2016-03-22 9:22 AM That is too much trailer for the truck you are looking at. If you needed to pull it a few times, it would do it ok, but you will be unhappy if that is your routine set up. Too much weight for the engine and transmission to have to routinely pull that much and definitely too much for the suspension and brakes. It will wear everything out much faster. Bumper pulls need a heavier truck than goosenecks as you get more sway and the weight being off the axle more. I am glad you brought up the sway factor. My friend just bought a Ford F150 with a 5.7. It is a 4 door short bed. We had to take her horse to the vet last week. She pulls a 2 horse with a small dressing room. I was surprised at the sway I felt. She had previously pulled with a dually. BIG difference in the feel. I am not knowledgeable about trucks and I am sure there are several factors at play, but I did not like the feel at all.
They may not- that is just what she told me it was. We don't drive Fords. |
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| Had a 2004 F150 with a 5.4 V8 and pulled a Titan 2H BP, weighed like 3600 empty.
In good conditions at under highway speeds it pulled great. At highway speeds you were good until you needs to go up a hill, if I only lost 10mph with it to the floor at the top of the hill I was doing good. If it was windy I got pushed around pretty good.
Pulled a heavier steel 3H with a dressing room with it once. ONCE. Just going across town it was unreal how unstable the trailer felt. |
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| for what it's worth: I was using a 2014 f150 to haul 2 horses in 3H gn w/wkender. Prob weighed 9000 loaded. Then due to gn clearance to bed I had trailer lifted 2". Leveled the trailer nicely BUT: it transferred more weight to hitch and I could tell it. Actually added about more 500 lbs onto my pickup! Within one week I traded this extremely nice f150 for a 3/4ton diesel and feel much, much better about it! Btw I'd added airbags but that doesn't change load capacities. |
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Location: Tulsa, Ok | It will pull way more than the body, suspension, transmission, etc can hold up to. Way more then it can keep stable or stop. When in doubt it is way better to be over-trucked!! |
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