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Trailer rigs/ fuel mileage?

I dont have enough truck really to pull a gooseneck.
The gooseneck I just sold had steel floors and was really heavy. It was only 14 feet not including the lenght of the gooseneck but gosh when I was hauling a friends 16 foot BP I could not believe the difference. The bumper pull hauled so easy that I had to keep looking in my mirrors to see if it was still back there.
With the goosenecks your pulling all that big gooseneck area that is really just wasted space unless your going to sleep up there. Plus with a 5th wheel it ties up your bed space. Even when your not pulling a trailer the hitch is in the way. Yes I know you can buy hidden hitches but my truck is 25 YO and I dont really want to pay big bucks for another hitch. It already has a bumper hitch.
So thats my situation.
What are your thoughts?
Im thinking a two horse,slant load with tack area will have the best resale value as far as BPs go because if somebody wants a bigger trailer they will most likely buy a gooseneck. But for me a plain old 16 foot stock trailer with a 7 foot ceiling would be ideal.
My concern is fuel mileage and I could make due with a two horse.
Plus lots of times I could go places with a two horse that I could not go with a bigger trailer, example through more snow over bigger hills on ranch trails.
What are your thoughts?
 
Bumper pulls work just fine. We do usually pull them with one-ton pickups, but you never know they are even back there. They can get through much rougher country, and as you say RoperAB, the pickup box is free for other uses. We have some eight-foot panels that can be carried around in a pickup box, so a small corral can be set up on location.

We have a 24-foot Titan gooseneck stock trailer that gets used pretty hard, but if I was only going to have one trailer for all uses, it would be a 6' x 16' plain jane stock trailer, at least six and a half feet tall. This type trailer isn't really a popular fad anymore, so if a person wants a new one, it almost has to be special ordered. Another thing I would definitely get if ordering a new one, is sliding gates both on the back and in the center divider. They come in handy very often.
 
I know where there is a 1999 Geortzen 16 foot steel BP stock trailer like Soapweed decribed for $5700CND. This trailer looks in the picture like new and could probable be bought for $5000.
Problem is its a Geortzen! I always have heard Geortzen trailers where junk and that the rust out quick.
However I always just heard this from people who dont own geortzen trailers.
Do any of you have oppinions on Geortzen?
 
We ve got a 2004 F-350 Ford and pull a 24 ft Real Industries trailer. Truck is getting darn good miledge now that they did a recall on it. We are getting 20 mpg pulling and about 24 mpg jsut driving. And we load her heavy.
 
Manitoba_Rancher said:
We ve got a 2004 F-350 Ford and pull a 24 ft Real Industries trailer. Truck is getting darn good miledge now that they did a recall on it. We are getting 20 mpg pulling and about 24 mpg jsut driving. And we load her heavy.
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What does it have for a motor and transmission? What gear ratio in the rear end?
 
Its a 6.0 L powerstroke diesel and has the hd auto transmission in it. I believe it has the 4:11 ration rear end in it. Its got loads of power!!
 
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Here is our truck hooked onto our 32ft gooseneck loaded with bales.
 
We have a 2005 F350, 6.0L powerstroke with 5 speed auto. It will pull anything you want to put behind it.

Problem is fuel milage. We only get aroud 14 on highway and 12 pulling 20 ft aluminum GN horse trailer. Was pulling flatbed today with 17 bales hay and computer showed only 8 MPG.

They did recall back this spring to put in new chip and it made it worse.

Johnny
 

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