[A/S] > 1b. Re: sway survey

> 1b. Re: sway survey
>     Posted by: "Oliver Filippi" ofilippi@roadrunner.com
> oliverfilippi
>     Date: Mon Mar 28, 2011 7:45 am ((PDT))
>
> Dan,
>
> Do you travel with a half full rear tank sloshing around?
>


Both tanks empty, nothing on board other than the original fixtures.
In all fairness it was a "pig in a poke" trailer, grossly neglected.
This Sovereign was an Ebay score that I snagged to use for off season hippie housing at the K'ville Folk Fest.
It was sitting butt down in the grass in a field south of Dallas, and full of twenty yard bags worth of detrius from many years of living on the road.
I pulled the hubs, cleaned it up, repacked the bearings, put my spare set of tires on it, got the electrics working, and hit the road. The first thing I discovered was that the brakes were sub par.
When the first beeeg truck went flying by me I thought the trip was gonna be over right there. Fortunately it was an uphill grade. I finally saved it by putting the trailer brake controller on full, counter steering and accelerating at the apogee of the swing.
The rest of the trip was spent watching the mirrors. When I saw a truck coming I would pull over onto the shoulder.
Old trucks,
Old trailers,
DanG

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