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Yeah, balance is often times more important then overall weight.
My buddy has a 16 ft car trailer, 7500GVW, its a nice trailer but it seems kinda light built. I got a smokin deal on an 18ft brimar 10k Equipment trailer. Yes its overkill for most of what i do but i got it for 2500 bucks and have done nothing but grease it.
Most people are ignorant or just don’t care until the trailer is fish tailing wildly and either runs them off the road or darn near does.
I'm kind of leaning more towards an F250 would be plenty for my current needs and would kind of futureproof things. I don't really see anything that would require a 1 ton, but the F150 is kind of in the same towing capacity field as my Explorer....so going from the Explorer to an F150 I don't think would make much sense. The jump from the Explorer to an F250 would make a huge difference...and give me enough capacity for anything in the future as well. If I needed to rent a mini-excavator, there's no way they'd do it with the Explorer, and probably not with an F150 either. Skid steer behind an F250 might be iffy too IDK, but hopefully I don't need anything that heavy for anything I'd ever care to tackle LOL.
I pulled a pretty large skidsteer once with an F150. IIRC it was around 10,000lbs with trailer. It was a 96 with a 300/auto/4wd with 3.55's. It actually pulled pretty damn good. I only went about 10 miles though. I know it was heavy enough to where when we loaded it it lifted the ass end of the truck off the ground when it came up the ramps lol.
I’m not sure what year F150 you’re looking at, but mine is rated to pull 12,700 lbs.
Yup. Pretty much anything above the base engine w/ 3.31 gears can tow 8k plus, all the way up to 14k.
90's. Don't want that new $50K truck nonsense...and no truck payment. Not in any hurry. An F250/F350 might pull that kind of weight I sure would try it behind a 1/2 ton.
Probably $20k+ because it says 7.3 on it. No thanks don't care for diesels. My 460 did just fine for 30+ years. Everything in my area right now that runs is $10k+. Luckily for me I don't do tractor work as a business, so I'm in no hurry to buy anything, but I still look, as you never know when you might find the right deal, but there certainly hasn't been in the past couple years thanks to the shamdemic and the new truck part supply issues.
I think the only difference between the F250/F350 is the springs, at least that was the case in the 80's and early 90's I think....but an F250 would definitely be more than what I'd need. Your F150 was definitely overloaded with that I6 LOL....they were only rated at what like 7-8k back then. I know my 88 F250 was rated for like 12k or 14k with the 460, couple thousand pounds more than the same truck with the 7.3L Diesel.
My 97 with a 460 has drug anything ive ever put behind it. 7.3's are nice if youre towing heavy long distance and/or in serious hills, and yes theyll get a few MPG better then a 460.
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