Originally Posted by Jim&Joan

Good point on the bed load. When measured and then loaded and had the squatting, I had a pretty good load in the bed with 2 sets of steel double tanks, an aluminum tank, full set of tech dive gear; all on top of clothing, tools, food and drinks. I manage the load as logically as possible, but getting the doubles in and out from too far forward is too difficult. So the doubles stay behind the rear wheels.

I ran into the wheel problem when folding up. I couldn't get the jack wheel off til I loaded the WD bars. I don't try to get all I can out of the WD for two reasons. One is to minimize transferring too much weight to the trailer tires. The other is that with a swing hitch, I notice that in a slow manuevering turn, the swing hitch pin interfers with the WD bar on the street side.

After a couple more shortish trips I hope we feel we have things worked out load/supply wise that I will get some axle weight measurements and get a quantitative idea of what loading the WD is moving.