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Gooseneck livestock trailer weights

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I'm trying to get an idea what a 4 horse Gooseneck trailer pin weight and total weight would be.

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Depends on lots of factors, but here's an educated guess:

http://www.cmtrailers.com/Categories.aspx?Category=9de2903d-3f5f-482a-b9de-d00e643d58d0

That's a 4-horse gooseneck trailer. GAWR is 10,400 pounds, so GVWR should be at least 12,000 pounds. Gooseneck hitch weight is 20 to 24 percent of trailer gross weight, so at 22 percent, hitch weight would be 2,640 pounds.

For a horse trailer, you want a Dooley. You need the stability of the dual rear tires when horses are moving around in the trailer. So forget the SRW. The real question is do you need an F-450 or an F-350 TowBoss instead of an ordinary F-350 DRW?

'05-up F-350 DRW CrewCab 4x4 PSD wet and loaded with full fuel, toolbox, and normal "stuff" will weigh almost 9,000 pounds without the trailer. 9,000 plus 2,640 hitch weight is 11,640 pounds GVW on the truck tires. GVWR is 13,000 pounds, so the '05-up F-350 DRW has enough GVWR for that load.

9,000 plus 12,000 is 21,000 pounds GCW, so well below the 23,500 GCWR of the '05-up F350 DRW. You don't even need the optional TowBoss pkg with 26k GCWR.

So for that load, get the '05-up F-350 DRW. Don't even think about a '99-'04 - they don't have enough GVWR or GCWR for that load.

And that's a different question than your farrier's work truck question. But as I suspected, your farrier work truck will also be used to haul horses, so forget about the lowly pickups with single rear wheels. You need a real truck with dual rear wheels. /ubbthreads/images/graemlins/warmsmile.gif

Note that steel horse trailers are a lot heavier than that aluminum CM I linked to. A 4-horse steel trailer probably has two 6,000 pound axles and a GVWR of 14,000 pounds and a wet and loaded hitch weight weight of 3,100 pounds.

9,000 plus 3,100 = 12,100 GVW = still within the GVWR of an '05-up Dooley. 9,000 plus 14,000 = 23,000 GCW = still within the GCWR of an '05-up Dooley. So even with a steel 4-horse slant, the '05-up Dooley should be "enuff truck".

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Mature Clydesdales weigh between 1600 and 2400 pounds...

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Hmmmm. My Grandpa had Clydesdales and Percherons for farm work horses when I was a tyke. Big suckers! Will 4 of them fit into a 4-horse slant? If they will, and assuming they average 2,100 pounds, that's 8,400 pounds of payload not counting the feed and tack. So be careful you don't overload your trailer. /ubbthreads/images/graemlins/shocked.gif I would definitely weigh the rig at a CAT scale the first time I had it loaded for the road. NEVER overload the trailer axles, or you'll be very, very sorry. /ubbthreads/images/graemlins/crazy.gif
 
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