I had my 12,000 lb capacity trailer built with carriers specifically in mind. The deck is only 14 feet long, and it has dual axles. I never had a problem with towing the trailer with the carrier on front end first. My weight distribution is near perfect when the carrier is almost back as far as I can get it on the deck, to where the foldup ramps just about touch the back of the carrier. Of course, this will vary with whatever trailer you are using, but unless you are working on a 10 or 12 foot deck, I think you will have enough room to get the tongue weight you would need for safe towing.
Here goes another army flashback: We were leaving Shilo to go to the G-8 summit in Alberta a few years back, and I was the convoy MRT. We hadn't even made it to Brandon (12 miles) when I came up to the first "casualty". It was one of those LSVW command posts with its 850kg cargo/generator trailer. The operator had to stop because the trailer was doing the bunny hop, and he felt there was something very wrong with the trailer. On looking in to the trailer, I saw that they had filled the entire back end of the trailer with dozens of filled sandbags, and that these actually had the tongue weight in to the negatives (it was pushing up the hitch). The operator had no understanding about how that could cause a problem.
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17-04-07, 13:24
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