Good story Bill but let me tell you about my Saturday it may make you feel better, let me set the scene a bit first. my block slopes to the rear and I had an above ground pool that I had cut into the slope at the bottom of the garden. I pulled the pool out a couple of years ago, and me being lazy I planted some greenery and convinced the wife it was a sunken garden, just the place to relax, I also have a bit of a heart problem and by order of the family am not allowd to over excert myself and apparently moving my one tonne camper myself is concidered over excertion. Now to Saturday, I decide its time to to a bit of winter maintenance on the ski boat and when bringing it up the yard find it wont fit past the camper that I have just spent the last two years building, so I have to move the camper. No one home so it only has to move a couple of feet so no one will know, pull the chocks out from behind the wheels and off I go, push it back a bit and bugger me it drops off the end of the pavers and away she goes, its about this time i realize how hard it is to pull the hand brake on when running after a trailer, no matter theres some big rocks at the top of the sunken garden, she'll be right just aim the wheels at the rocks. It hits the rocks chucks me in the air and against a bloody tree, that hurt, get myself up off the ground and look at the damage, trailer has gone over a four foot straight drop and draw bar is pointing to the heavens. Its about this time I realize I'm in deep poo, what do I do, ah hah good time to try out my new Warn winch i have just fitted to the Rodeo, quickly bring the truck in hook the cable to the draw bar and off I go, now to me this drop looks like a miny gunshot and no way is it going to come out but to my amazment up she comes no problems, pull her up onto the pavers again, chock the wheels, feed the cable back onto the winch, backed the Rodeo out, cleaned the mud off the back of the trailer go to the fridge and get a beer and in walks daughter number 2,she takes one look and says"dad you have moved the camper", "no worries darl only rolled it back a couple of feet alls good". I've done some dumb things in my day but this one is up there and telling you blokes about it probably is another.
Have to look on the bright side though,
1 thank god I left the hole in the back yard dont know where it would have ended up if it wasnt there.
2 I now know why the trailer weighs a tonne, one little dint in the stone gaurd for the water tank, no other damage
3 I was worried the 8000 pound winch was too small but was amazed at how easy it dragged it out
4 The fridge is full of beer and bourbon
Biggest problem I have now is how I am going to explain the mods I have made to her sunken garden
Ended up with a big ar$e black bruise on the leg and lost interest in boat maintenance only thing left to do was drink beer
Sorry to high jack but thought it might make you feel a bit better and I know
but thats not gunna happen fellas
