MoreTrout
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I'll start off by saying I'm a complete novice when it comes to towing anything. I think I have done it 4 times. Once with a U-Haul truck towing my SUV several years ago during a DIY move. Three times with my former Ford Escape, yes, a towing beast. Two of those I'm quite certain I had weights that exceeded both the trailer capacity and the vehicle capacity.
So my wife and I have plans to put in a 12x16 paver patio in the back. She found a contractor selling his leftovers on FB marketplace, and we scored 3 partial pallets at about 1/5 the cost of retail. The first one came back in the bed of the truck - fairly certain exceeding 1700 lbs, but did fine. Today we went back with a rented trailer to pick up the other 2 pallets. He said one full pallet was around 4k lbs, and the two partials we towed probably were close to or a little more than 1 full one. In other words, probably at or just over the 3800 lb limit on the trailer label, so my track record lives on.
While I won't say I didn't feel like anything was back there, it was pretty close. And most of it was just my own anxiety knowing something was back there. Total weight was probably in the 6k lbs ballpark. But since aerodynamics are much more important, the fact that I was close to literally towing a brick told me not to expect much, although it was a low profile. About 1/2 was highway and 1/2 was winding, hilly farm roads. The screenshot is the 30 miles towing the full load, and I thought 1.27 mi/kWh was pretty reasonable. All told the day was about 100 miles, and roughly 1/3 each between nothing, empty trailer, and loaded trailer, and used around 45% of the battery.
So my wife and I have plans to put in a 12x16 paver patio in the back. She found a contractor selling his leftovers on FB marketplace, and we scored 3 partial pallets at about 1/5 the cost of retail. The first one came back in the bed of the truck - fairly certain exceeding 1700 lbs, but did fine. Today we went back with a rented trailer to pick up the other 2 pallets. He said one full pallet was around 4k lbs, and the two partials we towed probably were close to or a little more than 1 full one. In other words, probably at or just over the 3800 lb limit on the trailer label, so my track record lives on.
While I won't say I didn't feel like anything was back there, it was pretty close. And most of it was just my own anxiety knowing something was back there. Total weight was probably in the 6k lbs ballpark. But since aerodynamics are much more important, the fact that I was close to literally towing a brick told me not to expect much, although it was a low profile. About 1/2 was highway and 1/2 was winding, hilly farm roads. The screenshot is the 30 miles towing the full load, and I thought 1.27 mi/kWh was pretty reasonable. All told the day was about 100 miles, and roughly 1/3 each between nothing, empty trailer, and loaded trailer, and used around 45% of the battery.
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