long tag along???

quickracer

quickracer

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i know a goose is the way to go,but i haul with a 2500 suburban.(no weight tag).
does anyone here pull a long bumper pull trailer?how well does it do?? im thinking 30 plus ft.just worried about sway,even with sway bar set up..hate to fab the rear of my suburban to except a goose(but i will for stability if needed)..
 
Do you really need a 30 foot plus trailer? Longest tag trailer I had was 20 ft and it was plenty stable but always made sure to load it up good.
 
I've pulled a 35' tag with 3 rigs on it and it was good. However, it was with an F350 so I had a rig that would handle it. Not sure about the suburban...
 
you will spend a mint keeping frame flex from damaging the body
 
I'm glad you asked this question. I've been wondering about this myself. I've been thinking of building a toyhauler with a hybrid camper on the font. With the hybrid I can't have a goose neck because of the front slideout. I've been thinking of building a rig like this:

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I just wonderd how it would pull with a 4k or 5k jeep on back if it. More than likley I would put the camper on a trailor like this:

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I would never pull it unloaded, even if we were not wheeling it would have my wife's WJ on the back. I'll be pulling it with a 97 2500 cummins.
 
Here's a friend of mines trailer. The deck is 30ft. I've pulled it a few times with only one rig on it over the axles with my '03 2500 cummins. It is very heavy even with only one rig. With two my single wheel truck would not want anything to do with the tongue weight. He pulls it with a Dually cummins and it does fine.
The only way I'd tow anything that long with a suburban would be if the trailer axles were more centered on the trailer to lighten the tongue weight.
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I've pulled a 24 ft enclosed trailer across the country with a F250. Trailer had a single seat buggy and lots of tools.
 
I think the the gross weight of trailer and load would be more important than length. A properly equiped burb can tow 10k lbs. Tires matter, need load range e with proper inflation. I need some "good" weight on tongue if my trailer is heavy 9k or more.
 
I think a half cab 'Burb would be sweet. Fab up a gooseneck plate and have at it! Kinda like an early Avalanche, but less homosexual.
 
38' deck.. W/D hitch and airbags. Towed like a dream, no sway control. She'd pull straight as an arrow up until 90mph.

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After recently (almost) breaking a tow hitch from the frame of my truck, my next major investment WILL be a gooseneck trailer. I'm tired of having to borrow a trailer and the good thing is, nobody around me has a gooseneck hitch :D
 
Croatan_Kid said:
After recently (almost) breaking a tow hitch from the frame of my truck, my next major investment WILL be a gooseneck trailer. I'm tired of having to borrow a trailer and the good thing is, nobody around me has a gooseneck hitch :D
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If you are referring to the OEM soda can tubing hitch on your Silverado, they weren't built to take much to start with. A good quality aftermarket V5, or the V5 that came on 2007+ Silverado 2500HD+ are way better built. It's not uncommon to see stock 99-07 tube hitches bent, elongated hitch pin holes, or tearing at the mounts.
 
This was a Hidden Hitch brand. It was probably my fault though, I might have had a little too much tongue weight on it.
 
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