snowranger wrote: My friend has a 3-slide Chalet camper on a Silverado 3500 diesel dually.
Total scale weight is around 16,000 lbs. I think we're talking about 8,000 lbs for the camper.
My 07 DWR 3500 is about 7,500. Round to 8,000 to make it seem better, but if your weight is 16,000, WOW, 8,000 lb camper!
MY AF 1150, when packed to move to my next assignment it checked in about 13,600 total.
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snowranger wrote: My friend has a 3-slide Chalet camper on a Silverado 3500 diesel dually.
Total scale weight is around 16,000 lbs. I think we're talking about 8,000 lbs for the camper.
Now that is a lot of weight for a 3500. Typically the trucks are somewhat underrated for liability reasons. I pull a 48' gooseneck with mine and they will survive with a wee bit over the 11400GVW they have. Getting into the two ton range of being over the GVW is outside of my comfort zone for sure. He would be way over on his tires unless he has 19.5s on it and then he is still over on his axle ratings. I'm not even an RV owner yet but based upon my years of trekking up and down the highways in a few different countries, if you need one that big you need a bigger truck or different style of camper. As I have said, I'm not even an owner of any kind of RV so what do I really know? Just load the wagon and stand on it. That's what we would have done years ago. Probably not so much today. My thoughts anyway.
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JD5150 wrote: I was looking up truck campers today and stumbled upon this.
Scroll Down Chalet Quad Slide
I'd agree with the others and say what is the point of 4 slides Bragging rights?
I love our 1 slideout in our AF 1150, but to just add 3 more slides would just add to the costs, the maintance and to the likelyhood of leaks. I much rather have one or two LARGE slides then a Quad slide out. The one in the bedroom area seems kind of pointless to me, costs verses what you get for it...
Using their posted dry weight 4,1000 lbs + 551.1 lbs water + 124 lbs batteries (assuming (2) T-105) + 300 lbs personal stuff+ 140 lbs lp (estimated 15 lb tank + propane) + 300 lbs ( two people - 175 for him, 125 for her)= 5515.1 lbs (generator weight is probably not in that 4,100 figure so add some more weight)
Now - think about all that weight on those 4 spindly jacks.
I dont want to.
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