Your towing rigs and trailers

[94BULLITT]

Finally found me a truck to haul my tractor around with. Now I just need to score a trailer. Pic below was day two of ownership. I've had it about a month now.

I'm looking at a 14k 18' Sure-Trac to latch on the rear. Overkill for the truck, but I'd prefer something that will last.

Nice truck. I would go with a 20' trailer.

 

[LA Confederate]

You'll love pulling with the Boost. Did you get the 2.7 or 3.5? 20' is a good length trailer and is what I'm shooting for when I upgrade if I don't trade up to a 3/4 ton. Right now I have a '14 Supercrew F150 with the EcoBoost and love it even more now that I put a tuner on it. I haul my tractor on a dinky 14' utility trailer and hate it but the truck pulls and stops it like its not even there.

 

[Sysop]

I got the 3.5EB. I've already towed a couple cars with it and it pulls great. I'd like a 20' trailer, but 20' is a little to big for my storage scenario. I currently borrow my brother in law's 18' trailer when I need to do something now, and it is less than a foot from being too long to fit it where I'll store mine. 20' simply wouldn't work for me without additional changes.

 

[vsteel]

Does the 12 stand for 12,000 lbs?

Just curious. I see it has 8 lug wheels generalizing it would be 7,000 lb axles or 14,000 lb gross weight. Unless of course they put lower rated tires on it making it 12k or they do it for your state for commercial weight purposes.
For or all I know the 12 stands for the twelfth addition and nothing to do with weight. Oh well. Just what I noticed and curiosity got the best of me.

The 12 does stand for 12,000 lbs gross weight, though I believe it does have 7K axles under it. The pickup has a GCWR of just over 20K and the most it can tow is a little over 12K. I did a lot of looking to see what was legal to tow and it depended a lot on where you where on how strict they are. If I would have got a 14K trailer it could have been seen as overweight, which gets me they can ticket based on what is possible to tow not what you are loaded to. I figured to just play it safe so the vehicle rating, trailer rating and plates are all at the 20K. Heaviest thing I have had on it was 6000lbs.

Just for the record the 12ET is 12K lbs Equipment Trailer.

 

[RDrancher]

2015 RAM 2500 4x4 Big Horn. 6" lift, 22" rims wrapped in 37x13.5 rubber, Hellwig rear assist airbags. JP 30' gooseneck.

Looks like you have a matching lift on your trailer as well.

 

[bryanduke]

Looks like you have a matching lift on your trailer as well.

I have lifted the trailer by about 5 inches. I just added a new set of spring seats and moved the axles to the bottom of the springs. Sets pretty level that way. 99% of what I haul is loaded and unloaded by a tractor or fork lift. I just have to pay more attention since the center of gravity had been raised.

 

[dodge man]

2010 2500 Mega cab, manual trans with 3.73 gearing. Big Tex 12ET trailer. 1969 Roadrunner, unrestored survivor. Pretty much stock all the way around.


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I'm in love with both vehicles in the pics, very nice. The Road Runner a 383? How about more details? I owned a restored 70 Road Runner, 440+6 for several years.

 

[vsteel]

I'm in love with both vehicles in the pics, very nice. The Road Runner a 383? How about more details? I owned a restored 70 Road Runner, 440+6 for several years.

Yes 383, it was owned by my father, when he got it there was only the 383 and 426 option, the 440 was a mid year choice. He special ordered it with metallic gold, 383, light kit, air grabber hood, manual trans and hemi suspension. about 60K original miles. I even have the window sticker for it, original bill of sale and the magazines he used in 68 to decide to buy the Road Runner.

 

[terryknight]

Yes 383, it was owned by my father, when he got it there was only the 383 and 426 option, the 440 was a mid year choice. He special ordered it with metallic gold, 383, light kit, air grabber hood, manual trans and hemi suspension. about 60K original miles. I even have the window sticker for it, original bill of sale and the magazines he used in 68 to decide to buy the Road Runner.

that's really cool

 

[dodge man]

As a long time Mopar fan, thats a pretty awesome story. It looks like its a post car and not a hard top. I always thought the post cars with the flip open rear windows were pretty cool. Being a stick is just a bonus. Its not really in tune with this thread but if you posted a couple more pics of the Road Runner, I'd like to see them.