Toy Hauler Camper with front load ?

[Basscyn]

For anyone with Camper experience I am a total noob.

Got my eye on this 28' Toy Hauler / Camper, but rather than having the "toy" area in the back, this one loads up toward the front.
Will have 2 Softail Harleys maybe 1600lbs. I dunno, I have not run any numbers, just afraid it too much weight on the tongue. The floor plan seems pretty balanced. Looks like the real weight of this camper is pretty centered. Kitchen , refrigerator bathroom all located pretty muck on top of the axle.
Any thoughts or suggestions appreciated





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[rzr6-4]

Campers are notoriously tongue heavy, and normally tow haulers actually aren't as bad because the "toy" in the back actually balances them out. Flipping that around is.......a bold choice.

Putting a KTM 450 in there and going to a race weekend seems like what this is made for. 1600lbs of Harleys seems like a lot. Looking at the pic, I would guestimate that your 1600lbs will be located about 60/40 tongue to axle. So that's about 650lb tongue weight just from the bikes, plus the dry weight and all of the other stuff you put in there or in the bed of the truck. Not to say that it won't work but I'd be very skeptical.

Your profile says 6.4, so I'm assuming a 2500? You have a 2500, you will definitely need to look at your RAWR and listed tongue weight, with a generous SF for the extra "stuff".

 

[crash68]

I have not run any numbers, just afraid it too much weight on the tongue.

I was curious about the cargo capacity of this arrangement as typical toy haulers are tongue heavy when empty. It's probably not the tongue weight you need to be concerned with but the cargo capacity of the trailer itself which looks to be about 2100 lbs. That doesn't leave you much with 1600 lbs of bike in there. Overloading trailer tires and axles is not a good thing, definitely don't want to go cheap on any toy hauler tires.

 

[nlambert182]

I definitely wouldn't try and haul two Harley's of any flavor in this thing. If you want to do that, you absolutely need one that loads from the rear. Preferably one that will allow you to pull the bikes up through the center of the rig as close to the axles as possible. There are a lot that you can drive right up to the kitchen sink.

I actually know a guy who has an Outback that looks pretty much identical to this one. He's hauled either one ATV, or 2 dirtbikes in it. He said it is pretty tongue heavy the minute you load something in the front.

 

[Basscyn]

Thanks for the input guys... You have confirmed my concerns. lol
Ill keep digging into it. Really like this set up, but ultimately may not work for me.

 

[joesstripclub]

I agree with the others, the axles seem set back pretty far so you are going to get all of that extra load right on the tongue. I have a 26' toy hauler thats listed as 7700 dry weight and has about 1100 lbs tongue weight (per the mnfr) dry, so really tongue heavy without something in the back to offset it.