Thursday, June 24, 2010

Friendly Type?

You never realize how much wear your equipment gets until you have something go wrong on it.  Tractor, baler, truck, even fencing.  If it is constant use, its going to break down especially doing heavy-duty work on a farm.  Yesterday evening it was a tire on the flatbed trailer.  We were going down to pickup feed for the many chickens that Sharon has going on the farm and BANG! a tire on the trailer blows.  It threw the tread before I could get it pulled off on a side road.  Sharon convinced me to leave the trailer at a farm place rather than parked in a field entrance along the highway.  She said "you would be happy to help someone who had a problem, so why not ask these people if you can leave the trailer at their place instead of off the side of the highway, they will be happy to help."  Okay, so I do it, only the place wasn't your standard farm place.  They kind of had a little business setup selling hearing aids.  Anyway we left a note in the door, dropped the trailer and left.  Then we remembered that we forgot to get the address where we left it so we went back.  When we turned onto the road where we had left the trailer we saw a car go into the farm place.  Great, we can go talk to them and let them know.  Turns out it was the granddaughter of the people who lived there, and she wasn't too pleased about me leaving the trailer.  When I introduced myself and started telling her about blowing the tire, she already had a finger to her lips and was shaking her head no...  An inquisition regarding how long I would have it there etc. ensued.  Luckily her boyfriend or husband came over and said, "well, $h*# happens" and kind of settled the matter.  So I left the trailer and have to go back this morning when the tire shops are open in the area and get back on the road.  Not sure what to expect when I go back for the trailer.

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