What is needed to pull 5th wheel with bumper hitch

A 5th wheel frame bolted to the truck frame on the floor of the bed and then the 5th wheel itself. A 7 way wiring plug inside the bed is nice but I imagine you could get away with an extension to down to the bumper. Obviously a truck needs to be rated for a 5th wheel but most, if not all 3/4 and 1 tons are.

 

I don't think it's a simple thing to just "put on". Usually vehicle specific. It's a whole separate style vs bumper pull. I'm not real will versed in them/never owned one and probably only ever installed one. Hopefully someone else will chime in here.

 

It requires permanent changes to the truck, including drilling holes in the floor of the bed, and the hitches and mounts are expensive. It sounds like you may just be moving a trailer once, instead of using it often? It might be more feasible to hire somebody to haul it for you, unless you have a friend that already has a fifth-wheel setup.

Or, if a friend has a gooseneck ball in their truck (more commonly used for big trailers on farms and ranches), they make an adapter to hook a fifth-wheel trailer to a gooseneck ball:

RV2 9" Offset 5th Wheel Gooseneck Adapter, Adjustable Height 12.5"-16.5"

 

They make all different kinds of adapters, for different types of trailers and different situations. Some are made for frequent use on campers and have built in shock absorption, are made for particular models or tongue configurations, etc. I just threw that one out as a generic example, if you had a gooseneck truck available. You’d have to shop around for something that fits your particular trailer. Sorry if I over-generalized.

 

There is a "dolly" that will attach to the ball of a bumper pull so a fifth wheel can be pulled on a bumper.

 

Part of the problem is that 5th wheel trailers are usually big/heavy, too much to safely hang off the back of the truck frame, that's why the 5th wheel hitches are mounted an inch or two forward of the rear axle.

 

Heavy too?
5th wheel hitch distributes weight to all 4(6) wheels of the truck better too, rather than unloading the front axle, as bumper pull can do (unless adding a weight distributing accessory, but I dunno if you can do that with a 5th wheel on the back hitch)

 

Ww what is this trailer?
Can you recognize the difference between a 5th wheel and a gooseneck hitch?
The reason I ask is that with a heavy enough truck you can simply put a gooseneck on a trailer hitch just like any normal bumper pull, it might just sit at a funny angle.
If this is a one time thing, most towing companies can move a trailer for you regardless of the hitch type.

 

Dry weight is the weight of the trailer, just as it comes. Gross would be trailer, plus any cargo weight.
Hitch weight would be the weight that the trailer is transferring onto the truck, as long as the trailer is loaded properly anyways...

 

A heavy 3/4, or 1 ton would be fine

 

I would think it would be pretty easy to find someone to move the trailer when the time comes...a hotshot driver, or even an owner operator semi driver...I've seen guys towing those big RVs with semi tractors before...

 

I hired a service to move a fifth wheel once about six years ago. It cost around $500 for ten miles.