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Company just bought this new Wildcat 5th wheel, I went and picked it up at the factory, first one they bought of this brand.
Freaking thing is HUGE!
Suspension sits way high too, most 5th wheels sit 6-8 inches lower.
42 feet 6 inches long, according to the paperwork, but only has a 14,800 GVWR, supposed dry weight of 12,449.
My F250 pulled it super well, very nice trailer, very nice inside.
Wow! It does sit higher up than normal. I've seen a few TT and 5ers like that, always think they look odd. Looks like the stabilizers and leveling legs need to travel a ton before they hit the ground. Maybe it's just the angle in the pic.
Built to take off pavement???
Maybe enough to get into the RV campground, no way I would be going very far off pavement with that big of a trailer!
I think they do it to keep the wheelhouse intrusion to the interior to a minimum.
I hear ya, but people do it all the time. They not only take these monsters off pavement, they drag them up serious 4x4 roads. Two weeks ago I was at a 4x4 BLM camp near Rabbit Ears Pass with my truck camper, and there were several travel trailers back there that were nearly this big. A couple years ago I was coming back down a boulder-filled 4x4 trail on my ATV, and here comes someone towing a park model trailer up the trail. Couldn't believe it.
Lighter weight 5th wheels lack the under storage that drop frames do because the frames are tucked up underneath. The drop frames are heavier 5th wheels and that 12" or some 10" I-beams eat all that ground clearance. My Solitude was 42ft and a drop frame. I hade several people flag me down before and tell me that my jack legs were down only to realize that is just how they are.
It's hard to tell because of the angle of the view, but that trailer on my truck is nose down, sits higher in the rear, truck sits fairly level with the trailer on, but the trailer is far from level.
Campers that sit up that high are built for taking off pavement, so there is method to their madness.
I sure wouldn't want to take a fifth wheel off road to complement that clearance. Plenty of 5th wheels already suffer from frame cracks just by running on road.
