Ravenwood
Well-Known Member
What a total numpty I am and no one to blame but myself 
My mare is booked into an Equine Clinic on Friday due to long term lameness. She is difficult load and a very bad traveller so I have to plan every last detail (read that as worry) before we load up.
So this evening I picked up the trailer and took it to the farm where she is. All I wanted to do was back the trailer through the gateway and up to the barn so its easier to load her... so easy! NOT
Because today, of all days, and never has there been before..... a tractor trailer left beside the very gateway I want to back through. I suss up the situation and decide that, its fine, no problem, I can easily maenouvre around the trailer, avoid the drop off the entrance and still get the trailer up to the barn... or so I thought
I should point out here that I have been towing for 20 years and have no hangups whatsoever about reversing a trailer - its easy! Or at least it used to be..... but this evening I just couldn't do it. I tried for God knows how long to get around the parked trailer, avoiding the drop to get through the gateway and I couldn't do it But I should have been able to!!! Grrrrrr
So with a complete loss of patience and lots of frustration (almost in temper) I pulled the trailer off the track onto the verge to dump it! But when I went to unhitch it I couldn't! I had to get my daughter to jump up and down on the tow bar - cue the trailer, as soon as it became free to drop at the back and the hitch to jump up
I then realised that come Friday there wouldn't be a hope in hell of me hitching back up
and the jockey wheel was sinking into the verge
So I found a piece of wood, told my daughter to shove it under the jockey wheel as soon as I lifted it up.... which she did..... and at that very moment the whole hitch came right down the jockey wheel practically to the floor
How could so much go wrong in such a short space of time?
Luckily one of the builders was there and he has promised to jack the trailer up for me tomorrow so that I can hitch up again - I'll just have to see what position it is in the morning!
My God - what a numpty, as if the stress of taking her there isn't enough, I now have to worry about hitching up
Predictably I have opened a bottle of wine - anyone care to join me?
My mare is booked into an Equine Clinic on Friday due to long term lameness. She is difficult load and a very bad traveller so I have to plan every last detail (read that as worry) before we load up.
So this evening I picked up the trailer and took it to the farm where she is. All I wanted to do was back the trailer through the gateway and up to the barn so its easier to load her... so easy! NOT
Because today, of all days, and never has there been before..... a tractor trailer left beside the very gateway I want to back through. I suss up the situation and decide that, its fine, no problem, I can easily maenouvre around the trailer, avoid the drop off the entrance and still get the trailer up to the barn... or so I thought
I should point out here that I have been towing for 20 years and have no hangups whatsoever about reversing a trailer - its easy! Or at least it used to be..... but this evening I just couldn't do it. I tried for God knows how long to get around the parked trailer, avoiding the drop to get through the gateway and I couldn't do it
But I should have been able to!!! GrrrrrrSo with a complete loss of patience and lots of frustration (almost in temper) I pulled the trailer off the track onto the verge to dump it! But when I went to unhitch it I couldn't! I had to get my daughter to jump up and down on the tow bar - cue the trailer, as soon as it became free to drop at the back and the hitch to jump up
I then realised that come Friday there wouldn't be a hope in hell of me hitching back up
and the jockey wheel was sinking into the verge So I found a piece of wood, told my daughter to shove it under the jockey wheel as soon as I lifted it up.... which she did..... and at that very moment the whole hitch came right down the jockey wheel practically to the floor
How could so much go wrong in such a short space of time?
Luckily one of the builders was there and he has promised to jack the trailer up for me tomorrow so that I can hitch up again - I'll just have to see what position it is in the morning!
My God - what a numpty, as if the stress of taking her there isn't enough, I now have to worry about hitching up
Predictably I have opened a bottle of wine - anyone care to join me?
