Sunday, Sep 30, 2007 at 15:20
G'day JD,
Many local government councils in WA operate
camp areas, but will not allow you to use them if you don't have a porta potty. I'm told that this is the case in many other states too. So hence the porta potty.
The
water is for two reasons: First we often
camp out for several weeks where there are no facilities and secondly we have the full complement of batteries in the camper, all of which are forward of the axle, so we carry the extra 90 litres of
water right at the rear of the camper to counter-balance the down-weight a bit.
The trouble with the KK is that the outboard motor mounting bracket is at the front, as is the gas bottle, two jerry cans and the front storage box. The only things aft of the axle are the
water tank and the spare tyre, which is marginally rear of the axle.
The result is over 300Kg of drawbar weight on the hitch. To solve this we have ditched the boat and all that goes with it, including the motor. We won't fill the two jerry cans unless we are doing long hauls like we did recently down the Tanami Rd and from Alice to
Adelaide.
Also we have taken weighty items from the rear of the car and put them at the rear of the camper trailer. We've also packed everything we haven't used in the last five months and it's going back to WA. And we had around 90Kg of canned and packet foods under the bed of the camper, also forward of the axle, so that has come out and will be redistributed and/or eaten and not replaced. The washing machine is going back to WA as
well. We'll use it when we get a caravan in a few year's time.
I can't be sure but going on the weight of what we've taken off or shifted, I think we should be OK now.
Cheers
Russ.
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