Trailer fun
First things first. you should know that my Uncle has a very steep driveway. We were taking one of our old sofas up to his place for some reason, and so we shove it in the trailer and drive round there. We then unclipped the trailer and pushed it up the hill to his house.
Now you should note at this point that it only took 2 people to lift the sofa, but 5 to push it up the hill in the trailer.
Trailer gets to house,tops the hill, and sofa is unloaded. Dad tells me to hold onto the trailer to stop it rolling back down the hill, a sensible course of action. Everyone else buggers off inside to look at the new sofa/do whatever it is my parents do in my uncles house.
At this point I have a flash of inspiration! Why not hold onto the back of the trailer and let it slowly down the hill? My feet would act as brakes and I could descend at a safe, controlled speed onto the road.
Big Mistake.
Unfortunatly, my shoes decide at this point that they don't actually have any grip. What turned from a controlled descent quickly escaldes into skiing on shoes whilst holding a large trailer.
Now of course, I could have let go at this point, and why didn't you, I hear you ask. Well, it was mainly due to the house opposite which had a rather shiny new car parked in my direct trajectory in their drive way.
The trailer crashes onto the road at quite a speed. Fortunatly the middle of roads are slightly raisedand it sort of bashed into the middle. I even managed to get it under control before it hit the other car :D.
The really scary bit was that if there had been a car or woman with her baby passing by, the car opposite would have a lovely new paint job; colour: red, effect: splattered.
(Buftoon posted this on, Sun 15 Feb 2009, 17:23, Reply)