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Originally Posted by jmpratt
I have an '06 F250 with the 6.0 diesel and stock 12k receiver hitch. I'm looking at buying an 18k equipment trailer with a lunette ring.
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You'll be severely overloaded. Not just the receiver, but the overall truck.
Your GCWR is 23,000. Your GVWR is probably 10,000. Ignore the towing guide numbers as others have mentioned, and weigh your wet and loaded truck. Subtract the weight of your wet and loaded truck from the GCWR and that will tell you the max trailer weight you can safely tow. Subtract the weight of the wet and loaded truck from the GVWR and that will tell you the max hitch weight you can have without overloading the suspension and frame of your tow vehicle.
"Wet and loaded" means full of diesel, and including all the tools and passengers and other stuff you will normally have in the truck when you have that trailer tied on. Your rig will probably weigh aat least 8,000 pounds wet and loaded. So that leaves 15,000 pounds max trailer weight and 2,000 pounds max hitch weight.
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Any suggestions on where to find a pintle mount that is rated for 18k or more? Any suggestions on a new receiver hitch for my truck that can handle 18k?
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Here's a pintle hook mounting plate for 18k max trailer weight:
Pintle Hooks & Lunette Rings
Scroll down past the lightweight jobbie and look at the one rated 18k. Notice it requires a a 2.5" receiver.
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(I assume it will have to be a 2.5"x2.5" receiver hitch).
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And yes, you have to have a heavier-duty 2.5" receiver rated for 18k weight carrying. Those are rare too, with a weight-carrying (instead of weight-distributing) capacity of 18k, but I found one. Hidden Hitch Titan has 18k weight carrying max trailer weight and 2000 pounds weight carrying max hitch weight. Click on this, then scroll way down until you see it:
Hitches, Receiver Hitches; Hitches Online
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Will my truck have any issues towing around 18k? The MCGWR is 23,400 (I think) and the truck weight around 6,300.
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If your wet and loaded truck weighs 8,000 pounds and your trailer weighs 18,000 pounds, that's 26,000 pounds GCW. Your GCWR is 23,000, so yes, you'll be overloaded by 3,000 pounds. No big deal on the flats, but when you get into hills and mountains, you'll be in trouble.
For that load you need a truck with at least 27,000 or 28,000 pounds GCWR. That eliminates the F-350 DRW and calls for an F-450 pickup which has 33,000 GCWR, or an F-450 chassis cab with the high-capacity towing pkg which has 30,000 GCWR.
