As another Lame Cherry exclusive in matter anti matter.
God is good to me. I think of things and they appear.
For hauling wood over chasms I really needed a little trailer to get into places and not too big so I could pull it out of places.
So the thing is, JYG has this brother he feuds with, because the brother is a crook, and he keeps calling the cops. Why someone engaged in crimes calls the cops is something I don't get, but we wave at the dude and he waves back, and he has a junk yard or junk ditch which people stop and take things out of as all he does is crush things for metal and hauls it all away.
For some reason, dude gets some nice things on his side of the yard, and I need things with non donors, so when we drove by and we spotted this metal garden wagon, missing one wheel, I knew I wanted it........and God had dude drive off to gamble and booze, so with TL steering the tongue and me being the missing wheel, we got it on JYG's side and with that, meaning no sign of dude, we loaded it up.
I have more fun when I think of it as stealing, instead of picking junk up out of the ditch. I told JYG today as we were to get the missing tire, "It is no fun stealing from dude if you aren't around". He laughed as he usually drives by and rolls old tires into the ditch as a kind of sport as he is driving.
So JYG found me replacement tires, we got them off a dolly cart and I knew they were not going to fit as the inner race was smaller than the axel. JYG sold them to us for 2 dollars. He also gave us a "chipmunk" which was in a vacuum cleaner someone dropped off. We took it home to turn it loose.....it was a gopher. A very fat gopher as he was eating a tub of corn.
Anyway I told TL, "Let's go to the farm store and see if they have wheels and hubs that will fit this thing as I thought I had seen some." We checked. I poked my finger in for measuring and then found the old guy who works there who took a calipers and said the tires we had were a bit smaller, and I said that the plastic bearing was probably worn, so for 52 dollars we got a matching set. More than the adventure called for, but thank God when we got home the both fit, hence the photo.
I plan on putting grease in the hub for extra lube, and I have to get about an inch of washers on the axle as shims for the wheel hubs to be tight with a cotter key, but this has me in a good mood.
The next step is to get some bent cattle panels JYG has and cut them to size to make a sort of second tier on this or what in the horse days was called double and triple box, depending on the number of boards.
That will hold the wood I want and should not overload these Chinaman pneumatic tires.
The tongue has a pin in it, and I think I might put a ball hitch on it, as JYG probably has one laying around and then I can pull it easier.
Well that's cool. I see I got a blood blister on my middle finger. Must have been the JYG adventure in taking the other wheels off as they had some lock hub thing which sucked in trying to get off.
Oh the reason the one wheel was gone, it was spoked like a bike, and I think the geniuses who had this trailer used it for concrete. It bowed it a bit. They had rewelded the axle, but even with 55 bucks in it with the washers, this is still cheaper than several hundred for a damned plastic box trailer which is all you get now.
I figure I can get about a 1/3rd of a cord of wood in this, and as it will be cottonwood, that is lighter than Chinaman elm, so it should not be too hard on it.
Am really delighted with God on this in I woke up being depressed in a shitty day, but now am happy like Niggers in Africa with a fire burning as they huddle under a bush. Is my being not a racist in experiencing things coons do.
Nuff Said
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