Sunday, June 21, 2015

Farewell old trailer


We bought this horse trailer in the first few months after we moved out here in 2002. It came as part of a package deal with Katherine's horse Buddy. The horse died at the ripe old age of 30 in 2008, but the trailer, which is 1970s vintage, kept rolling along .... until last week.

Mike used it to take chickens to the processor down in Arthur, which is about a two-and-a-half hour drive. When he came home, he was backing up the trailer to park it when one of the wheels fell off. Apparently the bearings self destructed. So, it will soon be going to the scrap yard.

That old trailer served us well over the last 13 years. It carried goats to goat shows, and chickens and turkeys to the processor, as well as lambs, pigs, and calves. We used it to pick up our Irish dexter cattle in Missouri and to bring home Beauty the Jersey and her calf Beau last year.

It is time for us to move on, and we'll be purchasing a bona fide livestock trailer to replace it.

3 comments:

Michelle said...

If it was going to die, it couldn't have had better timing and placement! So glad Mike made it HOME safely!

Deborah Niemann said...

Yeah! I should have mentioned that. On the Interstate, two hours from home, with 79 chickens would have been terrible!

Lori said...

whew, good timing! o_o

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