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Trailer trial run
Apr. 24th, 2008 09:25 pmI took the day off work today to do some chores.
I rolled the trailer out on the road for the first time since rebuilding it. It looks and handles better than new. It makes a big difference having proper trailer tires instead of passenger car tires. The guy taking my money at the recycling center when I went to get wood chips actually asked where I bought it, since it looked new.
I didn't wind up getting LED tail lights for it. The ones on sale at Harbor Freight were flange mount, for going into trucks, and the only other ones I found that fit were a full $50 setup including new wiring and stuff, which I don't need. The only real problem with the original lights is that they're the super-cheap $5 type, and moisture gets into them and then all the contacts corrode and they stop working. So I bought $12 waterproof boat fixtures instead; if water can't get in, the contacts shouldn't corrode. Also wasps can't get in; with the old lights I've had to do some extermination in the past when replacing bulbs.
Anyway, I got a load of wood chips, and two loads of compost for the garden, and put 1.5 loads on. The rest, plus some new topsoil, will go in a new pair of flower beds that I laid out this afternoon. I went out to spray roundup on the whole area, but the wind was blowing too much for the amount of spraying I need to do out there, I didn't want the stuff to blow onto nearby plants and trees, so I just walked around with the dregs of last year's herbicide and whacked thistle plants and the occasional dandelion that had gotten really large, until I ran out of the old stuff. I have some new Roundup concentrate that I'll mix up in the big sprayer this weekend and get going on that bed. I'll probably need at least 4 loads (a load = 1 yard) of topsoil for what I'm thinking of. Fortunately topsoil and compost are pretty cheap at the recycling place ($7.50 for a yard of compost, $14 for a yard of topsoil).
I rolled the trailer out on the road for the first time since rebuilding it. It looks and handles better than new. It makes a big difference having proper trailer tires instead of passenger car tires. The guy taking my money at the recycling center when I went to get wood chips actually asked where I bought it, since it looked new.
I didn't wind up getting LED tail lights for it. The ones on sale at Harbor Freight were flange mount, for going into trucks, and the only other ones I found that fit were a full $50 setup including new wiring and stuff, which I don't need. The only real problem with the original lights is that they're the super-cheap $5 type, and moisture gets into them and then all the contacts corrode and they stop working. So I bought $12 waterproof boat fixtures instead; if water can't get in, the contacts shouldn't corrode. Also wasps can't get in; with the old lights I've had to do some extermination in the past when replacing bulbs.
Anyway, I got a load of wood chips, and two loads of compost for the garden, and put 1.5 loads on. The rest, plus some new topsoil, will go in a new pair of flower beds that I laid out this afternoon. I went out to spray roundup on the whole area, but the wind was blowing too much for the amount of spraying I need to do out there, I didn't want the stuff to blow onto nearby plants and trees, so I just walked around with the dregs of last year's herbicide and whacked thistle plants and the occasional dandelion that had gotten really large, until I ran out of the old stuff. I have some new Roundup concentrate that I'll mix up in the big sprayer this weekend and get going on that bed. I'll probably need at least 4 loads (a load = 1 yard) of topsoil for what I'm thinking of. Fortunately topsoil and compost are pretty cheap at the recycling place ($7.50 for a yard of compost, $14 for a yard of topsoil).
