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Anonymous
Yesterday morn we hooked up the stock trailer at 6:30 am for a 3 hr drive southwest to pick up some bred cows. The trip down went smooth. Turned out too smooth.
We got there looked over the group and picked out 9 heavy bred ladies. Loaded them and we were on our way home. The girls settle down for the ride and we didn't even make it a mile before a lady is honkin at me. She says a tire is coming apart. Spin get out and look...all the tires are good, must be dried cow manure falling through the floorboards. We get on the highway and about half hour later I see a tire wobbling in the mirror. I ease off the exit and there's a tire place right there. What fortune! We find a lug sheared off and the other nuts are backin off. They pu a new lug in and hammer down the rest of the nuts. Bak onto the highway and not 2 miles later, I see lugs flying through the air in the mirror. Got off on the shoulder, barely, and the hub only has one lug left. It's Sunday afternoon, a holiday weekend, and no tow shop will haul a loaded trailer on a flat bed. I call the man I bought the cows from, and e brings his trailer down and we transfer the cows into his trailer......right there on the side of i75. Total down time with a load in 90 degree weather, 2hrs
So I take the wheel off my trailer, he limps it back to his house, and I drive 2.5 hrs back north to drop the cows off, hauling tail the whole way, and my truck decides it wants spring a coolant leak. 4 gallons later we get the cows deployed, and I'm headed 3 hrs back south to return his trailer and limp a 3 wheeled trailer some 200 miles home down an interstate.
Get his trailer dropped off, mine hooked back up, and head home at 50 mph. Stopping 2 more times for water for the radiator. And there's only 1/2 inch of clearance on the tireless hub side and the pavement. And no lights in the trailer now from dragging it off the road with no clearance. In the dark. On a holiday weekend.
Finally get home 5 hrs later ( remember it should have been 3)
At 1am. Total time for the day from start to finish..18 hrs.
Ill get a picture up after I get out of bed.
We got there looked over the group and picked out 9 heavy bred ladies. Loaded them and we were on our way home. The girls settle down for the ride and we didn't even make it a mile before a lady is honkin at me. She says a tire is coming apart. Spin get out and look...all the tires are good, must be dried cow manure falling through the floorboards. We get on the highway and about half hour later I see a tire wobbling in the mirror. I ease off the exit and there's a tire place right there. What fortune! We find a lug sheared off and the other nuts are backin off. They pu a new lug in and hammer down the rest of the nuts. Bak onto the highway and not 2 miles later, I see lugs flying through the air in the mirror. Got off on the shoulder, barely, and the hub only has one lug left. It's Sunday afternoon, a holiday weekend, and no tow shop will haul a loaded trailer on a flat bed. I call the man I bought the cows from, and e brings his trailer down and we transfer the cows into his trailer......right there on the side of i75. Total down time with a load in 90 degree weather, 2hrs
So I take the wheel off my trailer, he limps it back to his house, and I drive 2.5 hrs back north to drop the cows off, hauling tail the whole way, and my truck decides it wants spring a coolant leak. 4 gallons later we get the cows deployed, and I'm headed 3 hrs back south to return his trailer and limp a 3 wheeled trailer some 200 miles home down an interstate.
Get his trailer dropped off, mine hooked back up, and head home at 50 mph. Stopping 2 more times for water for the radiator. And there's only 1/2 inch of clearance on the tireless hub side and the pavement. And no lights in the trailer now from dragging it off the road with no clearance. In the dark. On a holiday weekend.
Finally get home 5 hrs later ( remember it should have been 3)
At 1am. Total time for the day from start to finish..18 hrs.
Ill get a picture up after I get out of bed.
