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<blockquote data-quote="Travlr" data-source="post: 1745413" data-attributes="member: 42463"><p>It's a dilemma, isn't it?</p><p></p><p>I've owned trailers and hauled cattle for people, and paid for hauling. It would be nice if neighbors would go in together on a trailer and all be able to use it, but then there is always that one guy that is irresponsible with it. Someone always damages the trailer and won't repair it because, "it's just a trailer". But sometimes the damage is critical to safety or how it operates. The guy will loan it out to his friends and it disappears or a tire gets popped and replaced (maybe) with some old skin from a junk pile. Or else you borrow a trailer and it turns out the great looking tread on the tires is twenty years old and you pop two of them on the way to the sale barn when it's empty. The lights never work on a borrowed trailer... and probably not on your own. Brakes get used so little that the magnets get weak or they lock up on a hill and fry the shoes, drum, and put a flat spot on a tire. Why is it that you can drive a two wheel drive '68 Chevy for a hundred thousand miles on original grease and bearings... but that d**n stock trailer will burn a hub every five thousand miles with regular care? </p><p></p><p>Everyone is proud of their trailer... but I've always bought used and abused and then go through it to make everything work as it should. New floors, a little welding, regreasing, and getting the lights functional... and then I take care to back up without running into things.</p><p></p><p>I'd say sell the nice trailer and buy an old dog, either still functional or something you can repair. Cows aren't proud. The most expensive purebred will step into a POS and be just fine doing it. All they care about is how tall the grass is where they are going.</p><p></p><p>But that's just me. Your mileage may vary.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="Travlr, post: 1745413, member: 42463"] It's a dilemma, isn't it? I've owned trailers and hauled cattle for people, and paid for hauling. It would be nice if neighbors would go in together on a trailer and all be able to use it, but then there is always that one guy that is irresponsible with it. Someone always damages the trailer and won't repair it because, "it's just a trailer". But sometimes the damage is critical to safety or how it operates. The guy will loan it out to his friends and it disappears or a tire gets popped and replaced (maybe) with some old skin from a junk pile. Or else you borrow a trailer and it turns out the great looking tread on the tires is twenty years old and you pop two of them on the way to the sale barn when it's empty. The lights never work on a borrowed trailer... and probably not on your own. Brakes get used so little that the magnets get weak or they lock up on a hill and fry the shoes, drum, and put a flat spot on a tire. Why is it that you can drive a two wheel drive '68 Chevy for a hundred thousand miles on original grease and bearings... but that d**n stock trailer will burn a hub every five thousand miles with regular care? Everyone is proud of their trailer... but I've always bought used and abused and then go through it to make everything work as it should. New floors, a little welding, regreasing, and getting the lights functional... and then I take care to back up without running into things. I'd say sell the nice trailer and buy an old dog, either still functional or something you can repair. Cows aren't proud. The most expensive purebred will step into a POS and be just fine doing it. All they care about is how tall the grass is where they are going. But that's just me. Your mileage may vary. [/QUOTE]
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