What did you do today?

[Ed Kennell 42,683]

Loaded up the crabbing gear.   We leave for the Delaware Bay tomorrow for a week of crabbing, fishing, eating, and Relaxing.

[ebinmaine 73,906]

9 hours ago, adsm08 said:

Ran into my dad while I was there

 

Hope you didn't hurt each other.  

 

 

 

 

[ebinmaine 73,906]

We picked up our new camper. Got it home and proceeded to modify it for our best usages.  

 

 

[8ntruck 8,067]

We drove from our Mi. location to our Mo. location yesterday.  Towed the utility trailer, as we have jobs for it here this month.  A couple slight issues with it, though.  The toung jack was lowering g itself as we drove, ant we discovered that one of the tires was real low when we stopped for breakfast after about 1/2 hour of driving.

 

The low tire was confusing.  The trailer only has about 2000 miles on it, so it was unusual to have one tire leak down.  Quick inspection didn't show anything, so we stopped at a gas station and filled it up.  We had purchased the trailer at a TSC store, and there was one a short distance from the gas station.  As an insurance policy, we stopped there and bought a matching spare.  Everything we stop, it is my habit to check the hitch and the temperature of the hubs and tires.  The suspect tire was holding air at every check.  About 500 miles later, I noticed a nail in the suspect tire in one of my checks - Mystery solved.  It was still holding air, so I didn't mess with it.  I'll put the spare on this week and get the other tire to a shop for repair.  Got to figure out a good place to mount the spare now.

 

It turns out that the toung jack needs to be snugged in the fully up position to stay up.

 

One of the reasons for the trip to Mo. was to attend a fundraiser dinner for the robotics team today.  Nice dinner, had a bit of fun, and won a silent auction on a rocket stove custom built with the team number.  It is built out of 1/4" plate and looks like it will disassembled into a stack of flat plates.  Pictures coming soon.  Looks like it will be a good porch or deck accessory for the lake house.

Edited Sunday at 04:01 AM by 8ntruck

[ebinmaine 73,906]

5 hours ago, 8ntruck said:

turns out that the toung jack needs to be snugged in the fully up position to stay up.

 

We found the same on our 7 x 16 trailer we picked up a few months ago. 

[Ed Kennell 42,683]

7 hours ago, 8ntruck said:

The toung jack was lowering g itself as we drove

Doesn't it lock in the up and down positions with a spring loaded pin?

[ebinmaine 73,906]

5 minutes ago, Ed Kennell said:

Doesn't it lock in the up and down positions with a spring loaded pin?

 

We have three trailers with manual screw jacks. NONE have a locking mechanism of any kind.....

[Ed Kennell 42,683]

 

Mine all swivel and lock in position with the spring loaded pin.      

[rjg854 12,405]

If their trailers are anything like mine, they are straight up and down only.

[ebinmaine 73,906]

13 minutes ago, Ed Kennell said:

 

 

Mine all swivel and lock in position with the spring loaded pin.      

 

6 minutes ago, rjg854 said:

If their trailers are anything like mine, they are straight up and down only.

 

 

Ours don't swivel either. 

 

[Ed Kennell 42,683]

Ready to roll this morning.   I can even open the tail gate.

[lynnmor 8,004]

3 hours ago, Ed Kennell said:

 

Mine all swivel and lock in position with the spring loaded pin.      

 

I had a jack like that and the pin disengaged while going in the turn at the Windsor cemetery after coming home from Potter County.  I gathered up the pieces, went home and assembled it with a R-clip thru the spring loaded pin to hold it in place.  Apparently the spring can't keep it in place under certain conditions.

[8ntruck 8,067]

5 hours ago, Ed Kennell said:

Doesn't it lock in the up and down positions with a spring loaded pin?

Nope.  Up/down motion only.  It does not fold.

[c-series don 10,317]

Well it wasn’t today, but yesterday I went to a local show. I only took my LSE and my newly acquired C-101. Sorry I didn’t take more pictures. I guess I was too busy BS’ing ! 

[Ed Kennell 42,683]

5 hours ago, lynnmor said:

  Apparently the spring can't keep it in place under certain conditions.

I never had a problem. I even let mine locked down when moving trailers with my tractors to prevent a tractor from doing a back flip.  Never had one collapse.

[adsm08 3,509]

10 minutes ago, Ed Kennell said:

I never had a problem. I even let mine locked down when moving trailers with my tractors to prevent a tractor from doing a back flip.  Never had one collapse.

 

I've never had one fall while driving. I did forget to flip mine up once and left a nice dig in the yard and was halfway to Carlisle before I figured out what the noise every time I hit an uneven spot in the road was.

 

But your 250 holds the tongue a bit higher off the ground than my Explorer does.

[ebinmaine 73,906]

Trina found a monarch butterfly here. 

 

 

 

This afternoon we cut a piece of carpet for the basement apartment so the momma will have warmer feet.  

 

 

[c-series don 10,317]

Today the wife and I took a boat ride over to the North Fork of Long Island to grab some lunch. On the way we passed the ferries that run to Shelter Island. Here’s a few pictures.

[Horsin'round 313]

Still recovering,  took a marathon drive to Conway SC yesterday.  Met a southern gentleman,  Cletis Nester, and picked up my first sickle bar.  Cleat was a generous and accommodating host,  invited me in to his shop,  regailed me with stories. I was so drained from the drive,  I didn't have the wherewithal to take pictures. One photo from when I stopped for supper,  more to follow. 

[ebinmaine 73,906]

It's stick bug season!

 

 

[lynnmor 8,004]

3 hours ago, Ed Kennell said:

I never had a problem. I even let mine locked down when moving trailers with my tractors to prevent a tractor from doing a back flip.  Never had one collapse.

Mine was a snowmobile trailer that saw trips to northern Maine, Pottery County and Quebec, that is thousands of miles and the spring loaded pin only failed me once.  But that is one time too many.

[Ed Kennell 42,683]

Rolled into crab camp at 3PM and moved in for the week.

 

And the relaxing begins.

 

[Ed Kennell 42,683]

A good start for crabby Ed.

[Horsin'round 313]

Pictures of my treasure,  as promised 

[c-series don 10,317]

@Horsin'round How does that tool work? I didn’t know that existed!