Tow Vehicle

I’m looking at a 2010-2013 Bighorn or Landmark. Will an f250 6.0 powerstroke pull this? I’ve talked to a few people that said it will pull it but the suspension and brakes are not stout enough. I’ve also seen a lot of fifth wheels going down the road being pulled by 3/4 ton trucks. I really don’t want a dually either. I know they have the two wheel 1 tons but they seem to be harder to find. Thanks I appreciate any advice.

Leebo said:

I’m looking at a 2010-2013 Bighorn or Landmark. Will an f250 6.0 powerstroke pull this? I’ve talked to a few people that said it will pull it but the suspension and brakes are not stout enough. I’ve also seen a lot of fifth wheels going down the road being pulled by 3/4 ton trucks. I really don’t want a dually either. I know they have the two wheel 1 tons but they seem to be harder to find. Thanks I appreciate any advice.

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Towing capacity may depend on what model year truck you have. Older models had lower ratings than some of the newer, similar models. Bighorns and Landmarks are on the larger side of 5th wheels, both in length and weight. And if you can drive a long bed 3/4 ton, you can drive a long bed 1 ton dually. We had a BH3670 and I never regretted getting a 3500 dually, crew cab full sized bed. Pulled and handled the BH like is wasn't there. BH is gone, but I still drive the truck where ever I go.

Is there a specific reason you don't want a dually? If it's about driving, I can say I really didn't notice a difference going from driving a van to driving our F350 DRW. If it's about finding parking, the only vehicle we all fit in is our full-sized passenger van, Nissan NV 3500, which is about the same size as the truck, and the only place we couldn't find parking was downtown Chicago since we couldn't fit in any of the garages due to the height of the van. There was plenty of surface parking we could have utilized but we just got into the area too late in the evening to make the walk with the kids.

If it's the cost, that's a hard one to overcome. It took us a lot of research and luck to find one that was in our price range.

I tow a 2018 Landmark Louisville with a 2016 SRW F 350 SD CCC is 3800 lbs. My Measured pin weight is 3,100 lbs. With passenger, hitch and generator in truck bed we are at limit. For us this best. I live and drive in snow and ice all winter. A dually is a hazard on the road unless you have 3,000 lbs of ballast. For us till we can go south SRW is the answer.

I upgraded from a 2005 Silverado 2500 4 door srw 8 foot bed to a 2015 Silverado dually 4 door 8 foot bed 3500. I have no problems finding a parking spot and will never tow without anything less than what I have. Best upgrade I made.

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Be careful going to look at new fivers, you will eventually find something you cant live without. Three different trucks later, I have a 3500 dually from ram with the cummins diesel. Personally I dont even give the dual rear wheels a second thought. It drives like any other vehicle, that is 22 feet long and weighs 9700 pounds!

I agree with sengli in post #6
I had an 2005 F250 6.0 diesel extended cab and a 3450TS Big Country 11 years ago, took a couple of trips and decided I needed more truck.
I too did not want a dually.
I ordered a 2011 F350 crew cab long box 6.7 diesel FX4 dually and could not be happier.
I now have a Bighorn 3760EL which is 41 feet, truck doesn’t know it’s behind.
Don’t buy a truck that is at the limit of it’s tow capacity, leave yourself plenty of excess capacity, you always manage to haul more than you think.
The stability of the truck is amazing, I would buy nothing but for a big trailer.
I live in Michigan and never found driving in Snow a problem, I use 4 wheel drive.
Another thing to think about, buy a big enough truck once, then you don’t need to do it over, I learned the hard way.
I can parallel park this truck better than most people can park a small car.
I’ve found it’s a mind thing with most people about dually’s.
Mine is also a daily driver, and I love this truck, everything the SRW was not.
Amen to sengli’s post.

Hockster

OP,

If I was a betting man (which I'm not), am willing to bet the GVW on the era of 6.0 PSD is 8800 and truck itself will eat up most of that. So if you added in the weight of the 5er, you'd be over the GVW of the truck. Shoot, even the 350's then only had 9900 GVW. Ford's newest 250's are rated at 10,000 GVW and truck should weigh around 8000-8600 by itself. 350's are at 11,5000 GVW with pretty much same static weight as the 250's. To answer your questions, IMO, no, a 250 is not suited for what your looking at unless you want to be overweight (I know this personally, cuz we were there). Yes many 3/4 tons pulling large and too large of RV's. They can pull them, but stopping and being involved in a accident will w/o a doubt involve some sue happy att'y and see that the owner was overweight. I'd even go as far as saying that some 1 tons SRW fall into same category. Had a '15 350 and it handled RV we had at that time w/ ease. Then upgraded RV and it pretty much was overweight on everything on the '15. Stunk cuz I really liked the'15. Ended up w/ the '17 DRW 350 and agree 100% w/ others as to how it tows/handles. Even the Mrs likes towing w/ it better. Yes the DRW stinks (IMO) in snow, but just have to adjust. Otherwise, overall very content w/ the DRW. If I had the dough, I'd have a SRW for everyday/winter use (mainly to tow snowmobile trailer), or a smaller p/u. But seeing I didn't win the lottery or much on scratch off's, the DRW will have to do.

NY

In my case, the truck was purchased to pull a 25 foot bumper pull trailer.
When I purchased the 5er, I thought I could make do, I couldn’t.
I had no intention of buying a 5er at that time in my life, but things changed.
The old saying, “You can never have too much truck”, applies.

Hockster

I have not seen pin weight mentioned….maybe I missed it. I believe most recent trucks will pull about anything but the mistake I made was not paying attention to the pin weight. Of course I always went with single rear wheels on all trucks. Had some differential problems on two trucks, then bought 3500 SRW Chevy short bed that did the trick all around. It was rated (barley) for my pin weight. Best pull I ever had.