You may (or may not) recall or care, but the trailer was last left detatched from the flatdeck. It needed to be pulled to work on it, and pull the septic tanks to get them repaired. The tanks were leaking because the trailer base wasn’t high enough off the flatdeck, and the tanks sat on the deck and they cracked.
The tanks are supposed to be suspended, so the plan was to just build the base up 4″ higher and put the camper back in the same spot. Easy peasy. Well, I did that. And thanks to the help of neighbours, got the camper back on.
But once I tried loading the quads up. There were troubles…
Forgot to take pictures of it (damn) but here’s an old one to refresh the memory (Just picture the camper sitting 4″ higher off the flatdeck.) it was really hard to load up and duck under the overhang while driving the quad up on an angle. The ramp had to be angled because the jack was in the way. I tried 3 or 4 different ways of loading and nothing was going to be easy.
So, decided that we needed to load from the back… nice and straight, real easy like. That means the camper either had to be spun around backwards and set to the front of the flatdeck, but that would mean still load up while ducking under the campers overhang… and now that I think of it, it wouldn’t work: The fenders are kinda in the way and I’m going to have to build something up in the middle of the deck regardless, but that will raise the front end of the quads and I never would have made it underneath the overhang.
The other option (really the only option now) was to just pull the camper forward, flush with the front of the trailer so it looks kinda like a 5th wheel trailer. This will make loading easy, and give us a cool patio once the quads are unloaded.
I did have to make some …modifications but you can hardly tell what I had to cut out of the camper. Trouble now is the septic tanks will need to be rejigged to fit, but I got a lot of room to play with and a plumber for a neighbour 
Still have to weld extensions to hold the quads: deck is only 7′ wide and 2 quads is 8′. Also have to weld in supports to secure and stabilize the camper on the flatdeck. And weld in a patch to fill in the hole where the tank used to drain.
It’s tongue heavy now. Once the quads are loaded it’ll prolly even out the weight a bit but may still need stabilizers or air bags. We shall see what happens
