Stanage Bay Trip

[nipsta]

Great trip cant wait to do another one up that way next year sometime

[BR65]

Its not a good trip unless theres a saga mate - bad luck on the trailer - at least you were eating muddies...

[rooboy98]

Bugger about the trailer. I had a similiar experience with a motorbike trailer years ago. Not cool. At least this happened after you went fishing and before you got out on the highway. That could have been real interesting......

Cheers,
Roo.

[nipsta]

Not wrong that what we thought glad it happen at slow speed and not high

Well starting building hte new trailer tomorrow so all will be good again and going to double up the nuts on the ubolts to make sure it cant happen again only via the ubolt snapping and we pretty sure it wasnt from that just som rust that loosen off the old axle allowed slack and the rest is history

[nagg]

That road is pretty hard on trailers by all accounts - 100km or something of dirt.
Yeh Nip - double up on Nylock nuts. For a new U bolt to break .... something else was going on - movement or over / uneven tightening - cant imagine anything else
Good luck with the new trailer

Chris

[ffejsmada]

Personally, I would have had a new trailer also. New boat, new trailer.

Can't understand why anyone would put a new boat on a rusted old trailer.
Doesn't make sense to me.

[Bazil Brush]

Personally, I would have had a new trailer also. New boat, new trailer.

Can't understand why anyone would put a new boat on a rusted old trailer.
Doesn't make sense to me.

Yea mate i bought a new trailer before i left on our trip

Baz

[nipsta]

Personally, I would have had a new trailer also. New boat, new trailer.

Can't understand why anyone would put a new boat on a rusted old trailer.
Doesn't make sense to me.

hahaha wasnt rusted for starters it just wasnt worth saving had no way of getting it home so for 300 dollars in fuel to get back up there worth leaving behind building a new one and the frame has cost me 165 dollars
for the brand new one welding up tomorrow so the getaway will back on the water before ya know it. Yes if i had one of those money trees ideal thing would be to have a brand new trailer from the start well when ya trailer is suited for it then why waste money on a new one it wasnt the trailer that broke it was the u bolts that come undon or broke so they where brand new dont
know what else ya to do

[nipsta]

Yea mate i bought a new trailer before i left on our trip

Baz

cheers for that makes me feel so much better

[rooboy98]

Worth keeping a close eye on the new u-bolts as well if travelling over any rough stuff. It's suprising how much the corrugations can cause them to stretch from new.

In addition to using double nuts, I also use a dob of Silastic as another form of cheap insurance on nuts and bolts and screws etc (especially for number plates, lights etc).

Cheers,
Roo