RV Towing Newbie

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Irishthreeper

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I looked at a “half ton towable” 5W 3 years ago and the hitch weight alone
was listed at 1550 lbs. Fill you propane
tanks and you’re already maxing out most 1/2 tons.
 

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I looked at a “half ton towable” 5W 3 years ago and the hitch weight alone
was listed at 1550 lbs. Fill you propane
tanks and you’re already maxing out most 1/2 tons.

Half Ton Towable 5th wheel means you can pull it with with an F150 with the mythical heavy duty payload package that stickers 2500 pounds of payload on a super crew XLT and is impossible to find unless you special order it.

Same deal with truck campers like the Lance 650. It’s a half ton truck camper if your half ton happens to be the one unicorn that comes with the payload capacity of an F250.
 

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Half Ton Towable 5th wheel means you can pull it with with an F150 with the mythical heavy duty payload package that stickers 2500 pounds of payload on a super crew XLT and is impossible to find unless you special order it.

Same deal with truck campers like the Lance 650. It’s a half ton truck camper if your half ton happens to be the one unicorn that comes with the payload capacity of an F250.

I'm not even sure it's an XLT Super Crew, I think it might be an XL to get rid of a few options, I can't recall.

But there's a LOT of guys over on the Ford forums who are trying to find used ones...and it's like guys, good luck, the people that have them likely ordered them because they had a purpose, they're probably not interested in selling unless they can get another.
 

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I'm not even sure it's an XLT Super Crew, I think it might be an XL to get rid of a few options, I can't recall.

But there's a LOT of guys over on the Ford forums who are trying to find used ones...and it's like guys, good luck, the people that have them likely ordered them because they had a purpose, they're probably not interested in selling unless they can get another.
I have a friend with an XLT SCREW 4x4 6.5 bed and his sticker is 2500 with the heavy duty payload package. I think a 2WD XL is closer to 2700 or 2800. It’s more than a lot of diesel F250s.
 

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Either way, those are outright unicorns nowadays... I don't even want to know what the wait time (or price!) is on a factory order.
 
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