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rgeo4

06/3/2015 at 9:34pm
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Hi,
I've just bought a Brenderup 1150 trailer.
I'm just wondering what the best way to distribute the weight to make the trailer most stable when towing?

The tent is the heaviest item, so is it best positioned at the back of the trailer, over the axle, or at the front. Or doesn't make much difference?

Any advice would be helpful.
Thanks

Jesscar

06/3/2015 at 9:45pm
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Nice trailer 😃

The body will be biased slightly forward of the axle, to ensure a little nose weight. If you put the tent centrally in the load area it should be about spot on, then everything else packs around it like Tetris👍

If it's not practical to put it central, then moving weight to the front is better than moving it to the back.

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quidsin

06/3/2015 at 10:12pm
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I'd say put it over the axle or towards the front as Jesscar has said, we have a trailer to go camping, but put our tent in the boot just in case its raining not to get the gear in the trailer wet.

rgeo4

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Thanks, Jesscar and quidsin, for your advice.

We bought the Brenderup, as most people seem to recommend the larger wheels, also looking on ebay for a cheap second hand trailer, there didn't seem to be too many bargains to be had (probably wrong time of year!) Also nothing decent close by so factoring in travel cost to fetch it or courier it down to west Wales, we felt it was more economical to buy new locally. Also went for abs lid, hoping it will prove to be waterproof (and thief proof!)

LobeyDosser

07/3/2015 at 12:34am
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When we used a trailer for camping, we added a jockey wheel to the A-frame so that the trailer stayed level when unhitched from the car.

We lined the trailer with polythene, loaded everything except the tent into the trailer and then covered it with a waterproof cover.

I had built brackets to the outside of the trailer walls and onto this we clipped a customised roof-rack. The tent was loaded onto this and tied down.

This meant that when we arrived on a site, the tent was erected without disturbing the trailer contents.
Then the trailer was pushed inside the tent and unloaded there. Reverse for packing up.
All this was especially good if it was raining or the tent was not properly dried out when packing up.

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remember the first thing you need out is the tent, and if the weather is bad do you really want to be having to empty the trailer contents out on the wet ground to get at it?

to be honest I don't think it matters that greatly how you load the trailer, everything is low down and hardly subject to the same sort of thing a caravan has to put up with generally a trailer will follow the car no matter what. unlike a caravan in the wind.

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Unless you have a very large trailer or a towcar with a very low noseweight then the your unlikely to exceed the noseweight limit.

I would start the same as loading the caravan. Really heavy items over the axle then move forward. Light stuff behind the axle. But with a short trailer its not so critical.

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