5th wheels tow amazing compared to regular trailers. Pulled a 33.5ft with my 00 F150(5.4L auto) 60 miles going 60mph.. pulled alot easier than our 18ft stock trailer.

 

Not a big tow for the V10, but a big one for the family. This is my stepson's first car. Bought with his own money after working with me this summer. I'm proud that he did it, but wish he wasn't a GM guy. About 11 mpg on a 160 mile round trip.

 

My 5th wheel... Bought both the truck and 5th wheel for less then what we were going to spent on a '09 F150!



The joys of being the ONLY one in the family with a truck. Hauling tile for my brother.

 

I hear that, I went and built a trailer out of an F-250 so my family could use that instead of my truck. The thing dwarfs the 97 taurus and 98 blazer they use to tow it.

 

Still got it in him. "Yeller" pulled many loads like this (often two gooseneck trailers), in fact the majority of the first 80k miles was spent on the road pulling loads like this.

 

holy crap, ur allowed to tandem like that?

 

"Yeller" is a sharp looking truck

 

And the trailers, too.
The whole rig is clean as a whistle.

 

Packing up to leave the race track...



The on-track part... B)

 

Just got my new to me 06 F-250 PSD about a month ago and have not towed with it yet but we have a Fifth wheel. Spray in bed liner going in next weekend and then getting the hitch put in. Since we used to tow the fiver with a F-150 I can't wait to hook it up to this truck. No longer a **** ant pulling an elephant.

 

In some states you are allowed to pull "doubles" like that. You need to have a Class A license with Double/Triple endorsements. You also have length restrictions. These trailers are empty though. I could tow them loaded, but the hitch would have to be beefed up a little on the front trailer to handle the extra weight from the second trailer.

Thanks, Dad bought it new in 79 and then we restored it in 2002-2003. 20+ years of driving up and down the highway and on the farm took it's toll on the truck.

Thanks again. The trailers are new. We (my parent's trailer sales business) we some major sponsors of a high school rodeo finals and we had some trailers down there for display.


Here's a couple more "double shots" for you guys. No Fords, but I think they turned out pretty cool.

 

This is NOT mine, but we saw it last week in a campground. First time I've seen a Scamp set up as a gooseneck kind of affair. I didn't get to see the tow vehicle but would have liked to see the hitch setup.

Cute as a button anyway. And, you could probably tow something like this with a Chevy or even a Dodge. Maybe.

 

Sure its not yours Bill.....and cute as a button? please tell me your wife said that not you...

 

THEN .... circa 1979


The truck is a 1978 F250HD 400-4V 4spd 4.10 ... from this truck on the seed company
I worked for had me buying 460's and 454's. The combine is an EIII AC Gleaner
we'd just purchased and were dropping off at our dealer. Later we did all the repairs
and mods ourselves. Later machines were K's that we modified the hell out of, added
three row corn heads, special cabs and lots of electronics. IIRC they weighed
in ~13,700#. As an earlier poster observed ... a MAJOR league wind anchor load.

NOW ..... from one of our last trips up to Lake Superior.

Just LOVE those old Ford trucks.

 

That's one hell of a thing to tow. What 4-speed did it have? A T-18/19?