[SEL] Trailer Update

Alan rustaholic777 at yahoo.com
Fri Apr 15 17:23:56 PDT 2011


That was pretty lame actually.
About 140 miles North of me is Mackinac Island.
At least during the Summer time there are no cars to be seen.
Back around 1986 my partner and I had a job to do on the island.
Building materials are very expensive on the island so we took our own.
We hired a guy with a team of horses and a wagon that they called a Dray to haul our materials half way around the island. It looked more like an old movie buckboard
He took to the inner roads but where he had to turn into the rear drive to the lodge we were going to work on he had to back in.
Then he had to back up about 75 feet and do a sharp left between two barns then just past the barns it was a sharp right and down a bank before another left and right turn around a guest house. Three more turns and he backed up to the rear door to the 1910 Silver Birches lodge.
He did it all so quickly and that team knew his every command.
The wagon driver was a young kid that told me he had only been doing that for thirty days.
He said the horses were the good drivers.
 
Alan in Michigan

--- On Fri, 4/15/11, Dave Merchant <kosh at ncweb.com> wrote:


From: Dave Merchant <kosh at ncweb.com>
Subject: Re: [SEL] Trailer Update
To: "The SEL email discussion list" <sel at lists.stationary-engine.com>
Date: Friday, April 15, 2011, 4:45 PM


Get a horse!

http://www.youtube.com/profile?user=SteamCrane#p/u/26/e-RbfD-9EyQ

Dave Merchant


At 04:13 PM 4/15/2011, you wrote:

>On Apr 15, 2011, at 3:31 PM, Listerdiesel wrote:
>
> > On 15 April 2011 18:21, Dave Rotigel <rotigel at me.com> wrote:
> >> Looks GREAT Peter! However, I'm sure glad that I will never have to
> >> back it up! You are lucky that that young women you sleep with is a
> >> good driver!
> >>        Dave
> >
> > Rita sends her best as always, but says that trailer reversing is a
> > mite technical for her :-))
> >
> > Peter
>
>I KNOW that if I were backing that trailer I would be installing a
>hitch on the front of my truck!
>         Dave
>
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