baymule
Garden Master
It's hard to have horses and no trailer. When we moved, our son saved the day by showing up with a trailer and hauling our equine friends to their new home. We had a trailer at one time, but the metal supports rusted out under the floor and it was no longer safe, so we sold it. I went to our DD's house a few weeks ago to cruise Craigslist and found a deal on a trailer. And it was only 20 miles from us! So I wrote down the info and DH and I went to go see it.
It looked pretty good. Didn't know the age, it had a few rust spots (metal termites), the paint was faded, but had barely been used. There was still paint on the floor boards. The tires were new. The trailer jack was broken and had a side mount jack welded on one side. The light plug didn't match ours, lights were broken, lens missing. Asking price $3500. We offered $2500, it was countered at $2900. We left.
I looked around some more, nothing looked as good as what we had seen. There are some raggedy wore out piles of metal masquerading as trailers out there for sale. They need hualed to the scrap yard. Anyway, we finally decided to pay the $2900 and went and got the trailer. We took it for the needed repairs, got a new jack, LED lights and plug, and a free used spare tire thrown in for good measure.
Now we can go get our 3 feeder pigs we're getting in a few weeks. One for us, one for our neighbor and his wife, Robert and Sharon, and one for our friends from BYH, Devonviolet. We're going to feed them out over the winter and butcher them in the spring. And we can take them for slaughter in our trailer! We can also use it when we finally get the fencing done and a shelter up for sheep. We are excited about our new (to us) trailer!
It looked pretty good. Didn't know the age, it had a few rust spots (metal termites), the paint was faded, but had barely been used. There was still paint on the floor boards. The tires were new. The trailer jack was broken and had a side mount jack welded on one side. The light plug didn't match ours, lights were broken, lens missing. Asking price $3500. We offered $2500, it was countered at $2900. We left.
I looked around some more, nothing looked as good as what we had seen. There are some raggedy wore out piles of metal masquerading as trailers out there for sale. They need hualed to the scrap yard. Anyway, we finally decided to pay the $2900 and went and got the trailer. We took it for the needed repairs, got a new jack, LED lights and plug, and a free used spare tire thrown in for good measure.
Now we can go get our 3 feeder pigs we're getting in a few weeks. One for us, one for our neighbor and his wife, Robert and Sharon, and one for our friends from BYH, Devonviolet. We're going to feed them out over the winter and butcher them in the spring. And we can take them for slaughter in our trailer! We can also use it when we finally get the fencing done and a shelter up for sheep. We are excited about our new (to us) trailer!
