I opened the garage Friday morning to take big Jack outside, and there was Tom, our contractor with his trailer up on a jack and one wheel off. His right side spring broke about two miles before he got here, and luckily, the wheel did not quite rub the fender. I volunteered to tear it down so he wouldn't lose a day working on our projects, and went to the farm to grab a few tools. Tom called the trailer place in Mt. Vernon and they had parts in stock, so I got a new spring, shackle bolts, and had it back together for him with no sweat. Take a good look at the breaks; this trailer was running on one leaf for some time. The shackle bolts had significant wear, so Tom is going to rebuild the other side as preventative maintenance.
2 comments:
yep, that one leaf sure carried the load.....
lucky he didn't have far to go, and wasn't on the freeway...
There is a part of the human race that thinks it's silly and a waste of time and money to replace an unbroken component simply because a component of identical service life and construction has failed.
That part of the human race isn't very smart, and I would prefer to have nothing to do with them.
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