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Location: North of where I want to be | My other half has decided we need a LQ trailer. I want a weekender with a few added accessories...... I drive an F150 He drives a 3/4 Chevy 2500.
Does anyone haul one of these with an F150? I just want a 2/3 horse......what are your experiences and thoughts? |
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  Witty Enough
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Location: CTX | I am going to assume you are wanting a gooseneck.
I would never pull one with a F150. It might be ok with a F250 but be very careful about the weight of the combination.
Personally, I will not use less than a F350 for a gooseneck. Heck even for a bumper pull. But I am always over cautious.... especially where it concerns my horses. JMO |
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Expert
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Location: North of where I want to be | Goose neck or 5th wheel. I live in PA ...lots of hills.
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 Bulls Eye
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Location: Oklahoma | Minimum truck I would pull a gooseneck with is a 3/4 ton. You need the stopping power. |
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Elite Veteran
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| If it's a 2H with a pretty small LQ, (like 4ft short wall) maybe, depends on what it weighs fully loaded with all your gear, horses, water tanks, camping stuff, etc. |
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Location: mi | I live in Michigan and haul a 2H GN with a 5' SW dressing room. Pull with a half ton. It hauls it just fine. BUTTTTTT when I haul my horse down to my trainers in PA and I am going to be hitting some hills, I borrow my niece's F350. I would not haul anything with a LQ or even a weekender with an F150. The trailer dealership told me they sell small packages in my size trailer to people all the time pulling with half tons. But after hauling mine around with a couple horses and all the tack and stuff I am going with nope 3/4 ton minimum for any type of LQ. And when it is time to replace my half ton I will bump up to a 3/4 ton.
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| Shadow trailers advertises a LQ that can be pulled by a half ton truck. The only reason I know is because we parked next to a lady at the world show a few years back that had one and loved it. She pulled it with a 1/2 ton, single cab chevy with a short bed. She said it pulled great but honestly I'm not sure where she was from and if she was running up and down hills....
Here is a link to their webpage:
http://www.shadowtrailer.com/living-quarters-stablemate.aspx
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Expert
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Location: North Central Iowa Land of white frozen grass | Its all about what you can stop safely. I don't think that many 1/2 ton pickups have enough brakes to stop a living quarter trailer safely when it is loaded down with all the gear. They all have enough horse power to pull one down the road its just how fast you want to go. |
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Elite Veteran
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Location: NC | Had a 1500 pulling a 2 horse and had issues on hills. My friend took her friends F150 with 2 horse bp loaded with 2 horses to pa and literally had her foot to ground to pull up hills. The 3/4 chevy I had was alot better but i was only pulling a 2 horse, not sure how would be with lq trailer. |
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Location: Stuck in a cubicle having tropical thoughts | I weighed the trailer in my signature a couple weeks ago. It weighed just under 6500 lbs with about 100 lbs of saddles and tack in the back. Then fill the water tank up and put clothes and food, etc in the LQ and load it up with 3 horses, you're pushing 10,000 lbs. I usually only have 1 or 2 horses in it. I pull it with a F350 Powerstroke. I have also pulled it with my mom's Dodge 2500 Gas V8 a few times and it handles it but her fuel mileage drops down to 7-9 mpg. We are looking at trading in my truck and we will probably get a 3/4 ton, or maybe another 1 ton if it's the right truck and right deal. There is no way I'd hook a 1/2 ton truck up to this trailer. Yeah, I'm sure I could get the rig moving with a 1/2 ton, but I'd have to rev the heck out of the engine and run the rpm's up to move it and get it up a hill and the fuel mileage would be terrible, but I'd be terrified that I'd never get it stopped, especially in an emergency, and I'd be worried about the trailer fish tailing behind a truck that light. The brakes, tires, frame, etc are all bigger on a 3/4 and 1 ton. I also know that most 3/4 ton gas trucks are only rated to pull 9,000 - 13,000 lbs. My F350 Powerstroke is rated to pull 24,000 lbs. I've never looked up the towing capacity on a half ton truck, but my guess is that it's not enough to pull what you are looking for. |
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Expert
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Location: North of where I want to be | Thank you all so much
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Location: Where the pavement ends and the West begins Utah | The 1500 can pull...But it has to work twice as hard ...takes more to pull and longer distance to stop. plus not enough leafs in the suppension to keep your a$$ end off the ground so you can steer with the front tires...that is all a big crash waiting to happen. No less that 3/4 and one ton is ideal. |
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Location: Oklahoma & Texas | I have an F250 2012 it's the 6.7 diesel engine...i pull a 3h with an 8 ft sw...weight empty is around 6400 without tack etc.. i usually have 2 horses in it with hay feed n tack plus lq stuff like clothes towels and water tank full it's easily 10k lbs...no issues plenty of truck left if I wanted to load that 3rd horse or pack more stuff... |
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Location: 100 miles from Nowhere, AR | I just want to say that truck prices are shocking. New and used. OMG |
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