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.
yep, that one leaf sure carried the load.....
ReplyDeletelucky 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.
ReplyDeleteThat part of the human race isn't very smart, and I would prefer to have nothing to do with them.