Feel free to laugh at me

[doodle]

Robin is in with vet just now. I’m not allowed to stay. Said I would just wait then decided I would unhitch and go for a coffee. Head not screwed on so unhitched and trailer rolled back, tipped up at the front. I grabbed handbreak but too late. Couldn’t pull it forward due to the jockey wheel not actually being on the ground!

So have just spent ages trying to stand on hitch trying to lower it to get back on tow ball while attaching it. I could have asked for help but too embarrassed.

So I’ll just sit here are wait!

 

[Fluffypiglet]

Oops!! Fair enough that you're not thinking straight! I struggle with the trailer and have to make sure I think before I do anything else it would all go wrong! Too many levers and cables and things for my liking!! Hope Robin gets on ok and you can get yourselves rehitched for your homeward journey!

 

[doodle]

Stupid thing was I had stopped and gone to unhitch. Decided I wasn’t far enough back so moved again. Should have stayed where I was!

I also set off this morning, got a few meters and thought it was awfully noisey. I hadn’t lifted the jockey wheel ?

 

[Annagain]

Stupid thing was I had stopped and gone to unhitch. Decided I wasn’t far enough back so moved again. Should have stayed where I was!

I also set off this morning, got a few meters and thought it was awfully noisey. I hadn’t lifted the jockey wheel ?

My car's back door (Defender so not really a boot) has side hinges so opens like a normal door. I have to drop the jockey wheel to open the car door and frequently forget to put it back up.

 

[cauda equina]

It's easily done, when a lot of your headspace is taken up with other stuff.
Hope all goes well today (well, everything else!)

 

[doodle]

Glad it’s not just me ?

 

[Merry neddy man]

Look for a long length of wood or pole put it under the back and try to lift it up , if it's on a slope could you push it sideways to leveller ground and still hitch up or eat humble pie and flash a smile to get help.

 

[doodle]

I managed to fix it neddyman. One good thing of being fat!!

 

[Merry neddy man]

Rubbish you're not fat!

 

[Cowpony]

One of the people at our yard set off without taking the wheel lock off her trailer. Made a bit of a mess!

 

[Roxylola]

Oh, your head will be full of Robin, I think a silly mistake is perfectly normal. Glad you've fixed it

 

[Rumtytum]

Glad it’s not just me ?

I do some very strange things when my mind is full of something else, I’ve decided it’s a sign of intelligence . Hope all is ok with Robin.

 

[dorsetladette]

Fingers crossed its an easy fix for Robin.

We all do daft stuff when we're worried - we have horses, most of the population think that's daft in its self.

 

[Nicnac]

At least it's taken your mind off Robin! Hope he's ok

 

[mustardsmum]

Oh I read this and know how you feel! A couple of years ago, I unhitched my trailer on my drive (which slopes gently to my house..., oh yes, I think you might have just guessed but I will continue) I was in a rush to pick up my daughter from school and forgot to put the handbrake on the trailer, or put chucks behind the back wheels (which I always do). After lowering the jockey wheel, I proceeded to unhitch trailer from my vehicle. Thought the it felt a bit heavy when I suddenly realised it was rolling backwards down the drive. Froze in horror as it rolled towards our house. Luckily a month or two before, we had had a low stone wall put in across the drive to help drain the runoff, and for some reason, I had the trailer ramp down so the ramp took out the new wall with its lovely stonework and it cam to a stop about 2m from the house. I nearly fainted. OH phoned me at that moment, whereupon I blurted out, I just nearly took the front of the house off with the trailer.... I am not sure he could understand what I was blabbering on about - until he got home. Suffice to say, always put the chocks under the wheels now and the event has gone into the family history books as the day I nearly single-handedly demolished the frontage of a 400 year old cottage.....

Hope Robin is all ok!

 

[scruffyponies]

If if makes you feel any better, I once drove off with the ramp still down.

 

[Bernster]

If if makes you feel any better, I once drove off with the ramp still down.

Yep me too.

step down on a borrowed lorry and had to pay to repair it!

side door open on my lorry but luckily yard called me as I had just set off so I caught that one.

I think you have a lot on your mind OP!

 

[PurBee]

I have very few trailers with straight jockey wheels...they all at some point got forgotten about, dragged on the ground and bent!

good luck with robin today xx

 

[asmp]

Hey, I once drove miles to pick up our new horse and half way back again with the trailer hand brake on! Only realised when I noticed smoke pouring out behind us on the motorway. Phoned the RAC as thought something in the car had gone but the RAC man quickly noticed it was the brakes melting. ?.

Husband, once, on reversing the trailer into its spot, put his foot on the wrong pedal (automatic) and send it flying backwards into a fence.

See - we all do stupid things!

 

[doodle]

Thanks everyone. Very good to know ?

 

[Elf On A Shelf]

One of the girls at the yard drove the big 6 stall from one yard to the other - with 6 horses on board - with the back ramp down. It's a good job there were people waiting for her at the other yard to stop her reversing else she would have buggered more than just the rubber blocks!!! Also a good job the last horse didn't lean too much on the back doors!

Thinking on it that truck has taken some batterings over the years!

Another memorable one was when Scu drove the front forks of the tractor into the Luton of it! We've never let him loose in the big tractor since ...

 

[Reacher]

If if makes you feel any better, I once drove off with the ramp still down.

Crap , now I’m going to have to admit setting off with the front ramp down. Mangled the rim though it still shuts.

Mr Reacher once unhitched but forgot to detach the emergency brake wire thingy and drove off. He never does anything stupid so it cheered me up that he had done for once

 

[Errin Paddywack]

I have set off with the trailer, empty thankfully and arrived at destination a couple of miles away only to find no trailer. Hadn't screwed the hitch down (Rice) and it had left the car on the first bend. Thankfully no damage.

 

[scruffyponies]

I have set off with the trailer, empty thankfully and arrived at destination a couple of miles away only to find no trailer. Hadn't screwed the hitch down (Rice) and it had left the car on the first bend. Thankfully no damage.

When I did this the dodgy looking hook thingy on the old Rice trailer pulled the handbrake on so smartly it broke the breakaway cable and the trailer stopped dead on the driveway (on a slope). Unbelievable that it would work so well.

 

[Errin Paddywack]

When I did this the dodgy looking hook thingy on the old Rice trailer pulled the handbrake on so smartly it broke the breakaway cable and the trailer stopped dead on the driveway (on a slope). Unbelievable that it would work so well.

Mine didn't have one more's the pity. My little single axle Ifor Williams sheep trailer did however and that worked very well, too well. We were taking a few lambs to the abattoir and about a mile from home, slight bump in the road, heck of a bang from behind and no trailer. It had somersaulted into the ditch. We worked out that when the trailer somehow disconnected, the nose dropped, brake snatched on and the lambs were shot to the front, hence the trailer turning a somersault. It ended up right way up but nose down in the ditch. Nightmare. Lambs escaping up the road, others trapped and crushed. One died and one had to be put down but otherwise the only real casualty was my poor little trailer. I swore after that, that if I ever had another single axle trailer I would not use the break away cable.

 

[scruffyponies]

How dreadful! Poor little lambs.