Some of you guys might think im off my rockers after reading this, and I may be!
I have a mobile home in my yard that I have to move from one area of my yard, to another. The mobile is 64 feet long, 14 feet wide, and weighs in at about 20,000 lbs.

Now Im thinking 4 low, hook it up to my equalizer hitch and basically move it forward, then back it up while turning to get it where it needs to go for storage. So the total time on the back of my truck would be like 15 minutes, driving at a speed of about 3 mph.
Ive pondered it a little bit back and forth and Im thinking it would just weigh the hell out of my truck so much that I dont want to wreck anything back there, but Im just curious what you fellas think. I also wonder if that wouldnt rip the class 4 hidden hitch deal right off my truck lol.

The ONLY reason i even started thinking about this, is I had a old building mover come out one time,a nd he told me they used to move mobile homes bigger then mine, with the older generation 1 ton trucks haha.

 

When did you learn what a pound was Sheldon?

You're torque converter and fluid won't be fond of you backing up that much weight (things tend to get a little warm), but I've pulled 22k lbs (gooseneck) with my 2wd truck going 65 down the freeway (I don't recommend this, but it was an unpopulated area and I needed a new driveway).

Your truck will sag, but will move the load just fine. Hopefully this is off the pavement since multiple axles in a turn is hard on the trailer tires. If you search you tube or FTE, I've seen videos posted here of a super duty moving a mobile home that was dropped off in the wrong location by a short distance.

 

There was a guy here that posted pics of him moving a larger mobile home than that from one lot to another (a few hundred yards, I think?).

 

Logic tells me that the tongue weight would be way too much for our trucks, but I could be wrong.

 

stuff a concrete block in between each leaf. so it doesnt bottom out. will work just fine

 

I wanna see the video if you try it.

 

What tires are you running? Will they grip in the grass when you try to pull and push that load?

X2.

 

Come on guys. Have none of you moved heavy loads before? I've had 14,000 lbs on a bumper pull with no issues at all. That was in the grass with regular ATR tires, nothing fancy. I've pulled heavier than that with a gooseneck.

Remember there are axles under the trailer supporting a large amount of the weight, and a mobile home is typically designed to have the axles mount without excessive tongue weight. Yes the truck will squat, and a receiver hitch that sticks out past the rear bumper will only worsen that, but a weight distribution hitch would help.

If the trailer is well designed and you're looking at a max of 20% (4k lbs) tongue weight, then that's not too bad. I've had that much weight in my bed. If it leaves a little to be desired, then you're probably still not talking more than 7k lbs due to the restrictions of the coupler being used.

I still think Sheldon ends up doing this, then getting a big head and coming back here telling us how he's got the best tuck in Canada. This isn't the video I was thinking of, but it shows the same type of thing. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FTJLl...eature=related

 

Trailer house moving trucks are usually short wheel base single axle dualies. Probably not a big deal to move one a short distance. As you lower the trailer hitch onto the truck, if it looks like it will be too much weight you can stop and jack the house back up and look for different options.

 

What Chris said. I have had over 2 tons of sand in the bed of my truck. The weight will probably be the least of his problems as traction might be the biggie.

 

Hahaha that was the funniest thing I read all day man, that was good!
Will be getting moved in my yard which is gravel/grass/dirt.

Thats what I concluded too, but I wanted to pick a few of our experts brains here. Ive towed overweight loads before, but always with a fifth wheel. A few times I really loaded down the back of my 97 f150 that I had, and im sure that was at least 10K on the hitch (not on road, just offroad in the yard.

Running toyo mt's ten ply 295 70 17's. They have the grip I need!

At first I was thinking about how some people on here have had really heavy loads on the bumper before, and that got me thinking. Weight distribution hitch would actually decrease that 4k on the back of the truck quite abit I would think.

And I know I have the best truck in Canada, I just need to test it once in awhile haha.

I thought of that too, but I think the real problem might be when I am moving it and something breaks! (IF something breaks)

I might hitch it up and see what it looks like. I mean I have a dump truck that I should hook up to it, but I just have a pintle hitch on there (and hte mobile has a 2 5/16 ball)
I do however dont wanna be busting my truck up, and I know how heavy loads can do that, I was just unsure of how heavy of a load our trucks could be able to do.

 

Aaaannnnnnd he's stuck. LOL.

 

Tell me you're just making a joke? I've got a slow internet connection so I didn't actually watch the video, just posted a link of a superduty pulling a mobile home.

Shoot How far did he get before he got stuck? I did say that wasn't the video I was thinking of, right?

Guess I should watch the stupid video before posting it next time, huh? Is it too late to take it back?

 

It looks like he made it a couple truck lengths and then started slipping.

 

Im just wondering why he didnt lock in the hubs and throw er in 4l!

My mobile is quite abit shorter...