99 cummins

I pull a stock trailers full of cattle and horses fairly often with my truck. In an open stock trailer they do tend to pull my single rear wheel around some but never to the point of being a problem. If your in a slant load those horses wont have enough room to move around enough to be a problem. If you think hard enough about it anything you pull behind you for a load can be a hazard. All you can do is honestly evaluate your driving skill and the condition of your equipment and use you common sense. What's completely safe for me might not be for the next guy or vice versa.

Chrisreyn

There are valid arguements on both sides of teh dually/SRW issue.
I have pulled slantload horse trailers to and from shows, ect. for years with a SRW one-ton and never had a problem, and thats going across western KS on I-70, windiest place onearth probably, a 40 mph gust is nothing...
I have never had a horse, even BLM mustangs fresh from the gathers, get so rambunctious in a trailer as to cause a problem with the SRW.
The biggest advantage to the dually is that it will bear the stresses of a heavy trailer load better thatn a SRW.....meaning that both will pull the same weight, but the bearings and such on the dually will pull it for much longer.
A lot of three quarter tons used to be biult on a half ton frame, this bred the bias that you had to have a dually to tow.. this aint true anymore, with most 3/4 tons being built on teh one ton frame, using the same axle, bearings ect.
my 2cents worth......its realy a matter of preference anymore....

all that being said, tho I have a SRW, I realy prefer the looks of a dually and want to convert mine to duals.....

sherman

Roadranger did you buy the horse trailer,if so what kind of milage are you getting with the 19.5 tires pulling the trailer?

roadranger

No, I haven't bought it yet. Truck camper didn't sell this past fall.
Will try again this spring...

With the 11ft 6 in. tall 4100lb truck camper I'm averaging 12 mpg on 19.5's. (paper figured), with a low of 10 mpg highway running against headwinds.
The 19.5's are only 1/2 in. taller than the factory 16 in. tires.- my speedo reads 4 mph slow.

hammerjammer

Yep. I would want a 3500 dually.

induchman

Point well made 5string. I pull a 38ft triple axle liveaboard, 4 horse slant by Jamco. When I don't have the mules back there, there's a Jeep Wrangler parked. Not quite the same as live animals, but the load can still shift, if not properly secured. Dually is the only safe way to travel. An SRW has it's own little niche, in the marketplace, but not in practicality.

XZILR8N

I would go to: http://www.horsetrailerworld.com/for....asp?forumid=2 and ask your question there or do a search. You will probably find someone there that has same horse trailer or nearly identical and find out what their experience is pulling it.

I pull a 24' Hart 3 horse slant load (about 10k loaded) behind my SWD truck and it is very stable and tracks extremely well. I think you will be in good shape expecially with having an E-Brake already. Worst thing is you try it and find out it's marginal and you then have an excuse to buy a 3500. That's what happened to me when we upgraded from a bumper pull 2 horse and bought the Hart 3 horse GN. My '95 2500 12 valve would pull it OK but felt under-braked and the old tranny was questionable. Oh honey...we need a new truck the horses won't be safe! Worked like a charm, we had a new truck that month!