HOMESTEAD BACKLOG UPDATE(6) THE TRAILER
THE IMPOSSIBLE...
February 12th 2021
At the end of December 2020, Mr Espino, our neighbor to the east, gave us a 32 ft long work trailer. It was of no use to him, but I knew it would be a great trailer for us to store all kinds of stuff in.
The only thing is, it needed to be moved.. and that was not going to be an easy task! It would involve somehow getting the trailer across our Creek and into the woods to its final resting place near the cabin.
The trail I needed to take it down had a habit of being VERY muddy as well, adding to the complexity of the situation...so it had to be moved when it was dry(not likely to ever happen) OR completely frozen. We went with the latter.😁
SO IT BEGINS
It was a bitterly cold day and temperatures hadn't reach above 10 degrees fahrenheit in weeks....the ground was frozen solid. So I installed the chains I had fabricated for the tires and hooked into the trailer.
The next step was to get the trailer down into the creek... And then the tough part getting it back up out of the creek.
Gravity was a big help coming down into the creek, as it pretty much pushed me into it. Once in the creek things got a little more difficult. The water in the creek was completely frozen and I thought that it would hold the truck and trailer...that was not the case.
In the above picture, the hole doesn't look that bad but, it really was. 😁
*Here I am, pretending to have fallen in the hole.😂🤣
*It was big enough to climb down into...so I did.
MOVING ON
Getting the trailer out of the creek the trailer up and out of the other side of the creek would be the real task.
*Here I am as I start the approach.