More storage

Because we host a campground all summer, in the Beartooth mountains of Montana, we need different things than someone who camps in a different campground every night. 

We needed more storage. So I added a cargo carrier to the front of the trailer. I had seen that some of the older Aliners had a built in fiberglass storage box on the tongue. I found a cargo carrier I thought would work on the tongue and a heavy-duty pvc carry bag that fit its dimensions. The cargo carrier was designed to be used on the back of a truck and installed on a 2" hitch receiver. I eliminated the support that would connect it with a 2" hitch receiver and, instead, used u-bolts to attach the flat cargo carrier to the tongue of the trailer.

The cargo carrier adds about 50lbs to the front so I removed the battery, that weighs about the same, to keep the weight balanced.

There is a domino effect with the trailer in that every change affects something else. The addition of the cargo carrier affected the turning radius of the trailer. We added a 10" hitch extension onto the hitch to move the cargo carrier back away from the tow vehicle. Doing this de-rates your hitch by 33%. Our hitch is rated at 500lbs tongue weight so the result is a rating of 335lbs. This is too close to the actual tongue weight of the trailer so I changed the hitch to a 750lb-rated hitch to get a margin of error.