Has to be the scales. I had somewhat calibrated them with my doctor's office weight. so I swapped the tail-wheel scale with the port gear scale and once again the port gear showed 120# and the tail-whee reading was now 34#. Still this puts the CG 5+" aft of the desired range I'm convinced that the scales are wildly inaccurate and had sent an email to the local EAA chapter about loaned scales.
While waiting to hear from the local members, I've returned to working on "stay mounts" for the folded wing using the 3/16" bushing welded to the frame at the base of the vertical stabilizer and the 5/16" tie-down locations on the aft spar lift strut fittings. I have threaded both ends of two 3/16" steel rods and added clevis forks fo make the rigid connections.
That's a 7/16" od by 5/16" id aluminum bushing spacer on the bolt to provide clearance to access the clevis fork pin. (These fittings are also "not essential for flight" weight items.)
The plan is to load the bird on my converted boat trailer and fabricate a fitting that will attach to the tail-wheel rod/spring and to use my Harbor Freight D-rings attached to the flat plywood bed allowing the use of cargo straps to secure the main gear fore-aft and port-starboard.
More to come.