Absolutely not. Any steel construction 24ft enclosed will be over 3k lbs. Hell, a steel 24ft trailer is close to 2000. I think my 20ft steel with wood deck is was 1500lbs when I weighed it.

 

I was responding to kyoo’s question about aluminum.

 

I have a Big Tex 18' steel with wood deck, pretty standard open car trailer and that comes in at 2000#. With winch, big battery and toolbox on the front shes probably closer to 2200#. Any enclosed except for some uber fancy Trailerex is going to be starting at 3k but I see that 3 being 4 before you know it.

Lets cut to the chase here. With your Sequoia unless you can borrow someone's trailer that is especially light, hauling an enclosed with the car is going to put you right into the maximum towing capacity.

 

Ahh yeah, those are definitely tiny. I guess we mostly think about the enclosed trailers that can also function as a place to hang out so 7ft ceilings.

 

damn... i think these are like 20g though

 

If they meet your needs and you buy used, I don't think they are a bad deal. I have owned 3 aluminum Trailex trailers in my life. The first one I bought new and sold a couple years later for $1,000 less than I paid. The second one I bought used and sold for $500 more than I paid. The third one, my current trailer, I bought 2 years old for less than 1/2 its new cost. I'm sure I could sell it for what I paid, or more. They don't rust, they hold their value if you buy second hand, and they save you money on your tow vehicle and gas. In my case, I have limited storage space for a trailer, but the Trailex is so light that I can push it around in my driveway and place in a corner where no tow vehicle could place it.

 

Depends on your comfort with buying and selling to continue upgrading. If you do that sorta thing all day and everything is usually short term then ya that may work. I tend to think in all directions and I know the wife, tools, and things I've had to use/do at the track would come nowhere near fitting in that shorter trailer, and by the time I added my things to it to make it work I'd be several years into the investment. You're not going to have less things at any stage. Also I'd look at it this way - without the 7 foot height and 24' length the simple tasks of getting in and out of the car and strapping it down are compounded in such a cramped space. I'd deff want to keep my open trailer until I could afford to do it properly or if such a small trailer had provisions so that I didn't have to turn into a pretzel, cause getting up and down off the ground is getting harder and harder these days lol.

 

so true on getting more and more "stuff"

my first enclosed was 16' and it was SUPER tight.

imo 20' is a good size if your worried about trailer pulling and storage.

 

Welp, traded my first gen raptor in for a brand new second gen. Drove over 1000 miles to trade it in down in Oklahoma, got a plethora of photos on my DSLR too. Totally happy with it. Hoping to get a new trailer in the spring.

 

Swoooooon!

I love it.

 

Nice upgrade.

1000 miles is a long way to drive for a vehicle. I assume you found a deal you couldn't pass up?

 

She puurrtty

 

I need to start scoping these at auction.

 

Thanks guys! Still kinda setting in that I bought my ideal truck. Hope to keep it 20-30 years. It's just one of those situations where you're like "man that'd be cool to get but there's so many obstacles to it being feasible" and then everything works out perfect without having to cut your hand off. Despite being so far away I have yet to have a vehicle purchase go this smoothly.

Dealers stopped taking orders months ago and there's no raptor for 2021. So I had to find something as I would've ordered it. This was exactly what I wanted, only missing one option (rear tail gate step), no other dealer in the country had anything remotely close so it was this truck or not happening.

I did get away with only paying sticker because of my engineering position with Ford, the dealer was excited to sell to a Ford employee 🙂. Ford doesn't allow employee discounts for any limited allocation models and since Ford announced no 21 raptors dealers have been hiking prices 10-20k over sticker on remaining inventory and even used ones are escalating to new prices. It's honestly a really weird market, but I'm not complaining.

Regardless of year, these truck hold their resale like you wouldn't believe, low mileage (50k and below) on a first gen still fetches 40-45k all day.

 

sorry for the noob question - if you have a 2" receiver, is the receiver actually a little larger? I just measured on my sequoia, and the inner dimension is 2 & 1/8th" rather than 2" exactly.

I didn't think much of it with the tow hitch because I figured there'd be some small amount of give, but I just but an OEM receiver cover that basically has no tension on the inside to hold itself in place.