He's got tandem singles under the trailer, so he's limited to 14k gross. If he'd gone for tandem duals and was looking to load up to 20k it'd be whole other ball of wax and I'd have a diffeent opinion.
That and he asked about a SuperC up above, so I'm guessin' he's not into the later big and HEAVY tractors. As far as the round bales, as long as he uses his head and is guided by weight and doesn't feel the need to fill the deck of the trailer up (there's a reason you see big trucks haulin' only one or two coils of steel that don't begin to fill the length of a flatbed), he should be okay.
I don't know what was available for automatics on Chevies, but as long as he has a trailer tow function and stays out of overdrive, that 4.10 rear will help. If he's going to haul heavy and a lot, an upgrade of the truck might be in order, but for occasional hauling, he should be fine if everything is maintained in good working order. As I said earlier, he might find with experience that it would be good to beef up the rear suspension.
I hear ya on the speed. My trailer is similar to what he's looking at. The truck is a one-ton SRW Ram with a stock (no chip) 305/555 Cummins turning a six-speed and 3.73 rear. I've been close to its rated limits for weight and it's served well. Especially with a top-heavy load like tractors, it doesn't bother me in the least to have to sacrifice some speed to drop one gear all the way up through and not even think about using 6th when fully loaded. I can still make a full 65mph turning 2500-2600 in 5th and hold all but the steepest hills doing that, and it works out better for the motor, running cooler at the higher rpms in the lower gear. (I don't know about the Isuzus and Navistars in the other pickups, but the conventional wisdom on a Cummins is "drive it like you stole it," and it doesn't hurt a thing to run it that high, it seems to enjoy it. Certainly better than luggin' and runnin' hot at 1700rpm in the next gear up.)
It sounds as if Gary's trying to go your route and avoid buying another truck. Common-sense, I call it. And he gets points in my book for asking about it, as opposed to all too many of the tourists I see up here who clapped a pair of air bags on a half-ton and hitched up to a 32-foot fiver with three slideouts. I make a point of staying well behind or well ahead of those rigs.
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