T J,

The 10 minutes it takes to get the plane out of the trailer, down the road to the airport, inside the airport gate, unfold the wings and be ready to fly is a very short time because of several little tricks.

1. The two rods that go from tabs on the vertical stabilizer to tabs at the wing strut attach points are held in position by small bolts (actually SS clevis pins from West Marine) with spring clips thru holes drilled in the ends of the small bolts. No small nuts to screw on and off and drop in the grass, and no need for pliers or wrenches. Very quick.
2. The same spring clip idea works for the T bolts that connect the control rods from the mixer under the seat to the flaperon horns. Again no nuts to screw on small bolts., no need for pliers or wrenches
3. There is a mark on the top rear of the cabin "glass" that matches a mark on the turtle deck so the turtle deck goes right in exactly the best spot and the turtle deck connectors line up quickly and easily each time it is installed.
4. The hanger/trailer is 9 feet wide. This is a huge advantage. Moving the plane in and out requires very little attention to avoid wing scratching, there is lots of room to spare between the folded wings and the walls of the trailer. I love the 9 foot wide trailer.
5. If the wings look like they might touch the trailer walls while loading it , rather than pull the plane out and realigning it, try using four cheap plastic cutting boards. As the plane is coming in to the trailer, run each main gear tire up on two of the cutting boards. The plane can be slid a bit sideways as the cutting boards slide over one another to get better alignment of the plane with the trailer walls
6. This is a personal favorite. When I land and get out of the plane, I lift the tail onto a small flat Harbor Freight Tools ($170) trailer which has a socket for the tail wheel. Pieces of two by 3 are screwed to the trailer deck leaving a socket or "hole" to drop the tail wheel in. I strap it in position.
&. The small flat bed trailer makes folding the wings easier because there is little downward force as the wings fold. The wings are at a perfect slope to drop a siphon in the wing tanks to empty the wing tanks for long distance towing. The small flat bed trailer has moderately large tires that roll easily on sand, gravel and soft earth or grass when compared to my plane's tail wheel tire.
9. With the planes tail on the small flatbed trailer it is easy to tow out of the airport, down the road and to our house (no interstate obviously)
10. A sixteen inch or so piece of all thread replaces one of the trailer tongue hitch bolts. The all thread makes a good two ended grab handle to pull the trailer around. I am a scrawny old guy but I rarely use the winch in the enclosed trailer to pull the plane inside, I just grab the long all thread bolt thru the small trailer's tongue and pull the plane into the enclosed trailer. The enclosed trailer has a low floor because it has torsion axles rather than springs which means a shallow ramp door angle for easy loading.
BJ