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NAME 5 NEED TO KNOW PEARLS OF WISDOM- beginner help
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<blockquote data-quote="Kismet" data-source="post: 329926" data-attributes="member: 8516"><p><span style="font-size: 26px"><strong>Maintain that trailer. Grease the hubs. Take the wheels off at least once a year weather it needs it or not. A broken down trailer with a boat on it is almost worse than the tow vehicle breaking down.</strong></span></p><p></p><p></p><p>Just had this truth VIVIDLY reinforced this afternoon. A corollary to it is Trust what you've been told, then check everything ANYWAY!</p><p></p><p>Today was a seized bearing in trailer wheel as I took the (thank you gawd) 65lb canoe over to the lake. So little weight on back that I had no wobble, no shimmy, no nothing...as the wheel froze and locked the tire in place to act as a skid, rather than a wheel for over a mile.</p><p></p><p>Will see if axel is shot.</p><p></p><p>The seller this summer vowed he had just replaced bearings and repacked them. DUMB me did not do what I know I should do.</p><p></p><p>I'm very lucky it was a light load and didn't flip the whole rig.</p><p></p><p>As Rosanne Rosannadanna once said: "It's always something." Or, as the lyric in House of the Rising Sun goes: "Mothers, tell your children, not to do as I have done." #-o </p><p></p><p>Have fun, be safe.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="Kismet, post: 329926, member: 8516"] [size=7][b]Maintain that trailer. Grease the hubs. Take the wheels off at least once a year weather it needs it or not. A broken down trailer with a boat on it is almost worse than the tow vehicle breaking down.[/b][/size] Just had this truth VIVIDLY reinforced this afternoon. A corollary to it is Trust what you've been told, then check everything ANYWAY! Today was a seized bearing in trailer wheel as I took the (thank you gawd) 65lb canoe over to the lake. So little weight on back that I had no wobble, no shimmy, no nothing...as the wheel froze and locked the tire in place to act as a skid, rather than a wheel for over a mile. Will see if axel is shot. The seller this summer vowed he had just replaced bearings and repacked them. DUMB me did not do what I know I should do. I'm very lucky it was a light load and didn't flip the whole rig. As Rosanne Rosannadanna once said: "It's always something." Or, as the lyric in House of the Rising Sun goes: "Mothers, tell your children, not to do as I have done." #-o Have fun, be safe. [/QUOTE]
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