Posted 2012-04-30 8:47 AM (#143535) Subject: Is this enough hitch and connector?
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Location: Los Angeles,ca
Hi all. We just had a class 3 6500lb (10,000 with WD) Draw Tite hitch installed on our truck. The mount & ball are Reese rated to 6,000 lbs. We will be pulling a 16 foot Circle J Cruiser stock trailer with 4 horses... is this safe? I am thinking we will be at or maybe slightly over the 6k lbs. The sticker with the weight specs is faded on the trailer... so I cannot read how much the trailer weighs. It is just an empty stock trailer. The owner told me it's 1200 lbs... which doesn't sound right to me.
Posted 2012-04-30 10:34 AM (#143539 - in reply to #143535) Subject: RE: Is this enough hitch and connector?
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Posts: 385 Location: high desert, CA.
I would think you are at or above the rating. You can take the trailer to any truck scale and they can tell you what it weighs. I wonder if 4 horses, and the trailer is really going to be able to traverse the bumps of the off road.
Posted 2012-04-30 7:57 PM (#143560 - in reply to #143535) Subject: RE: Is this enough hitch and connector?
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Posts: 316 Location: Illinois
I have an old steel 16' Bison bumper pull. It weighs around 2500lbs empty, with a gross rating of 7000lbs on two 3500lb axles. Which means technically I could put 4500 lbs in it. Depending on the weight of your horses you are either OK, or a bit over your hitches rated capabilities without the weight distribution, but not the trailer's. If I were to put more then two horses in mine I would use a weight distributing hitch, but since I rarely put more then one in mine, I just use a regular bar and ball. Checked out the Circle J site and it seems their new stock trailers do have 5200lb axles, but that would bring your trailer to a gross (including the trailer weight) of 10,400lbs.
Your best bet is to contact Circle J with the year and model that you are looking at and I'm sure they will tell you all you need to know about that model. http://circlejtrailers.com/index.html
Posted 2012-04-30 11:30 PM (#143572 - in reply to #143535) Subject: RE: Is this enough hitch and connector?
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Originally written by beena on 2012-04-30 8:47 AM
Hi all. We just had a class 3 6500lb (10,000 with WD) Draw Tite hitch installed on our truck. The mount & ball are Reese rated to 6,000 lbs. We will be pulling a 16 foot Circle J Cruiser stock trailer with 4 horses... is this safe? I am thinking we will be at or maybe slightly over the 6k lbs. The sticker with the weight specs is faded on the trailer... so I cannot read how much the trailer weighs. It is just an empty stock trailer. The owner told me it's 1200 lbs... which doesn't sound right to me.
Is this enough hitch and connector?
