New Pod owners

On reducing the potential of trailer sway:  There have been some excellent articles written in the past about the importance of having 11% or of the total weight of the trailer on the hitch.  In our case a fully loaded 177 with full FW tank (located behind axle) came in at 2940 lbs.  Multiply that weight by .11 and our magic number came to 323 lbs.  Even though we carry two 12v deep cycle batteries and a pair of 20# propane tanks on the a-frame it was still necessary to add 3 used truck rotors to the front storage area to get the tongue weight up; it this case it came to 325 lbs.

Last fall it became necessary to replace the oldest battery, it was 3 months shy of 11 years old.  Replaced it with a Trojan T-1275 12v golf cart battery.  It gives 150 Ah of power and weighs in at 85 lbs.  Because of the added weight I could remove the three truck rotors, freeing up valuable storage space and making my wife quite happy, a win, win.