Glad that camping season is right around the corner for you.. I know you enjoy it immensely. I can almost smell the smoke! I found in life a lot of frustration and regret can be thwarted with a little inspection and prep. Don't cut corners! Growing up working on a farm I learned a lot about checking things over before sprinting off and using them. GOOD idea to do your spring inspections on that trailer. Now go "Find The Fun"!
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Thanks, we already have about seven trips planned for the summer. My dad always used to have me help him do the bearings on the trailer, so I just kept doing it when we bought one. Lot's of people just blindly use the EZ Lube knobs these days on the zergs or whatever they are called. I like tearing it apart so I can actually get eyes on the bearing to see if there is unusual wear.
Good Idea. Looks like a lighter trailer, but trailers wear funny just because nothing is precisely perfect. Weight distribution is a factor too. Around here it is almost a must due to the salt water and fine sand.. marine or boat trailers are even worse. I can still remember the smell of the grease (not to mention the mess) and worse yet I can't ever remember wearing any gloves as a kid packing bearings. I'm not sure they even existed when we were kids? God only knows what we absorbed into our skin as kids.
I still don't wear gloves. They just rip or get in the way and end up being more trouble than they are worth. I think our trailer is about 6000 pounds unloaded. Something like that. Actually, it might be closer to 6800 now that I think of it.