Re: Trailer Towing-Close Call (Long Post)

Posted by 02 on November 30, 2005 at 00:45:08 from (24.108.118.65):

In Reply to: Trailer Towing-Close Call (Long Post) posted by N. TX Tim on November 29, 2005 at 21:09:49:

What a crazy thing to happen.Good thing you had presence of mind and were mechanically minded.
I had a problem with a 6X10 box trailer I rented last summer.It had surge brakes.It was loaded with about 1200 lbs. of band equipment and I was pulling it with my camper laden 1970 G.M.C. 3/4 Ton.We were on one of the mountainous gulf islands coming slowly down a long curvy hill when I felt the brakes fading away.Shifted into low range{350 auto).No brakes.Motor racing.Corners ahead.Got around corners O.K. Intersection at bottom of hill.Went through-no cars.Short 250ft.level straight stretch with a corner winding downnhill at the end.I hadn't used the brakes since they faded and now I saw my chance.Hit the brakes and managed to ALMOST stop before the next corner/hill so I jerked it into park and somehow it caught with a loud P-i-i-n-g!
The upshot was the surge brakes did'nt work-the last renter had tried to back up without locking out the trailer brakes so he cut the brake line beside the backing plate.
Oh yeah,around that last corner was one last short steep hill ending suddenly with a wood barricade and a 20 ft. plunge into the ocean.

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