Trailers

[BrokenolMarine]

Yes... The new car hauler has 'em.

[HenryFan]

Some years back, the son off a close friend and a couple of the son's buddies pulled a rather large boat from Florida back to South Carolina with a Jeep Wrangler and later, either had the transmission replaced or rebuilt.

I have a Ford F250 which I don't use too often since I can drive my old Toyota Tacoma cheaper but when I pull my current equipment trailer, I sure don't use the Tacoma. The F250 has a brake controller and the equipment trailer has electric brakes, which I consider an absolute requirement for pulling an equipment trailer loaded with a tractor and an implement.

Craig Boddington, the writer and former Marine Corps officer, says "Use enough gun". HenryFan says "Use enough truck."

[Hatchdog]

Towing isn't always the question people should be concerned with, it's "stopping."
We used to see it a lot with both boats and horses.

"No problem at all, she's a Turbo Six Jeep, she can pull 'er."

Then, come the first long downhill with a stop sign, or a deer jumps out, and the load pushes the jeep or light SUV. When we looked at boats, we knew we could pull what we were considering with the Titan, and stop it. With the horse trailer, we added brakes to the trailer requirements.

Yep, I hear that from time to time. She can pull er’. It’s very mountainous here in my neck of the woods and stopping is a huge factor.

[BrokenolMarine]

We'll see people pulling huge boats with a Ford Explorer. (Or similar sized vehicle.) You know they can't stop that boat, even if the trailer has brakes. Surprised they could pull it out of the water, more surprised the boat didn't pull the Explorer into the lake. If you watch some of the boat ramp you tube videos, you'll see exactly that happen. If the ramp has the least bit of slime on it, they either can't pull the boat out, or the backward slide begins and they are lost... truck and trailer goes under.

[BrokenolMarine]

Craig Boddington, the writer and former Marine Corps officer, says "Use enough gun". HenryFan says "Use enough truck."

You betcha!