How I Spent My Tuesday.

[DannyG]

Well a friend asked me if would help them move. I said yes like I always do, well they rented a trailer and paid for my gas and lunch. So moving was fun. I got to tow a trailer for the first time ever.

On the trip home the trailer was all drunk on me. Was expecting it but still freaked me out. (By drunk I mean swaying back and forth).

She did real well both down and back. Gonna give her a lot of attention tomorrow, she worked hard!

 

[r1hatman]

Dual trailer wheels tend to get wanky on you. Go packing though!

 

[DannyG]

Didn't help much that one tire, upon arriving in Fargo sprung a dry rot leak! The tire began to deflate and the ride was much smoother. lol

 

[bobbywalter]

i have had problems with bias and radial tire mix on those too

 

[Will]

All that crap in those tubs was heavier than the stuff you loaded in the front.

During the week of my wedding my brothers and brother's in-law loaded the enclosed U-Haul trailer my wife and I towed from Iowa to Southern California--by way of Glacier National Park and Seattle and down the west coast. The morning after our wedding we jumped in my old '64 Galaxie and headed off--only to be nearly killed. We stopped early the first day of driving because the trailer was trying to kill us. We unloaded the whole trailer--they had put the largest things in first--couch, empty bookcase etc, and the last things to go in were my wife's 10,000 school books and my tools. After we reloaded with the heavy stuff in the front, it was great.

Unfortunately, that car had the old type of 9" with ball bearings, not rollers. We pulled into Glacier with the rear end rumbling so badly that I couldn't see anything in the mirrors. At the time that car was 31 years old it it was damned hard to find bearings in the middle of nowhere. I was at a tiny garage that looked like it was long out of business but had a faded NAPA sign nailed over the door. I had to wait for 2 hours for the parts and used the tire and a rope as a slide hammer to pull the axle shafts--cut the bearing off with a chisel and pounded the new ones on with an old pipe. I was gone all day--not making a good impression with my new wife. I was so happy to have that thing back together and at the slightest road noise my ass would take a bite out of the seat cushion after that.

 

[DannyG]

Actually all the heavy stuff was to the front of the trailer, should have clarified that, on the way back it was squirrely, but that was with an empty trailer and a 25 mph cross wind.