So, I went to a gathering at Auburn the weekend before last.
One of the more interesting 'drops was a home built Benroy style like mine, built on a bolt together kit trailer and loaded with every camping accessory/luxury know to man.
14 x 14 foot coleman shelter to park the thing inside, storage box on the drawbar, high mounted pull out awnings both sides, kitchen cabinetry (as opposed to open storage like mine), full height inner spring queen mattress, (mine is lightweight 6 inch foam), etc
Anyway, the lady owners have posted on Facebook about how they just put it over the bridge and were very concrened at how close it came to the legal limit for un-braked trailers, and how much of that weight was on the tow hitch.
Got me thinking - since I weighed mine, and got 420kg on the wheels and 45kg on the tow hitch for a total weight of 465kg, it has evolved.
Changes since first weighing:
* added a fan, a couple books, a few DVDs, two pillows and two heavy blankets to the cabin area.
* added a drawbar box, with two folding camping chairs, a backup butane stove, and a collapsible table in it.
* added plates, cups, coffee pot, cooking pot and frypan, utensils and cutlery, primus stove, 3 gas cylinders, towels, box of condiments, noodles, baked beans, 1.5 kg fire extinguisher, etc, to the galley.
*replaced the fridge with a steel icebox - about a net zero change there I reckon.
The above is what I towed to Auburn
So off to the weighbridge at the city dump today I went
440kg on the wheels, 65 kg on the tow hitch.
Ready to camp weight was 505 kg. That'd be about 1113 pounds. I'm pretty happy with that weight for a 9 x 5 trailer.