cooked 600 sausages for a school cross country event
and carted a bbq on the father in laws old trailer (which I recently added more grease to the wheel bearing (as it was prety seized! (and then more recently i noticed the cap for the bearing was missing))…anyway, on the way home, kids in the car, the trailer hit a bump…then the car starts straining a bit, and I notice the trailer leaning over more than normal…next thing the wheel off the trailer over takes us on the road and comes to a stop on the other side of the road ahead of us!
only thing to do was to put it on the trailer, and since the road was wet, and only 2km to home, gun it…then the kids look out the back window of the car, “Dad!, there are sparks flying off the trailer!!!” 8O 8O 
we made it home, including gunning it even more over the cattle stop and then creating a gouge in the metal in the drive way!
Oyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyy Hate to say it but gotta laugh… beats crying 
-Bob
Yep laugh or cry…stick with laughing and look on the bright side… made it home with the BBQ, and most of the trailer !
(sounds like the sort of day out I would have, except it would rain on our BBQ over here !)
Stuart
I havnt told the father in law yet what happend to his dinghy boat trailer 8O
luckily the BBQ I had dropped off earlier back at school, so the trailer was empty
Yes, I laughed instead of cried
the kids thought it was funny when I pointe out that the wheel overtaking us was from the trailer behind us!
Better then any Cartoon I bet…
-Bob
Gotta look at the bright side - there may be a sad boat trailer story to come and some engineering repairs :shock: But what the heck! At least the kids thought it was funny!! Surprised you made it over the cattle stop!! So you have another job or two to do outside the forum huh?
How did the BBQ go with the winds you had!! ?
we had a good sturdy scout tent (but didnt have enough rope to storm lash it) and put it behind a nice tree for shelter 
It seems that you greased the wrong wheel. #-o
It did bring a grin to my face though…
I have a friend who was once stopped by the Police to ask if he knew that there were sparks coming from under his car. When they looked to find out where the sparks were coming from they found that he’d lost a wheel somewhere further back up the road and had been driving on three wheels for some time! Unfortunately he’d been drinking and ended up with a driving ban as a result of this incident.
My first car was '53 VW Beetle. I was driving around with a couple of friends showing off my ‘new’ car when a tire passed us. We started laughing about a stupid fool who didn’t know enough to tighten the lug nuts. A few seconds later we realized I was that fool. :oops:
Thanks for the laugh and memories Brian.
–Dave
Remember picking up a trailer tent we had spent months looking for, hitched it up behind my Saab 9000 and set off home, couldn’t help thinking the car was struggling to pull it, didn’t think anything more till I got home, and then wondered what all the smoke was coming out the back, had forgotten to take off the trailer hand brake, fried wheel bearings, Ho,Hum camping trip delayed a while didn’t make that mistake again
This all sounds very familiar …mmm :oops: :oops:
Mechanical failures can be quite frightening, so I feel for you, Brian.
Many years ago I owned a Standard 10. One fine sunny morn I had need to travel and reached a place known as North Ryde (some of you might know the place) and was heading in the direction of Top Ryde. Having successfully negotiated the crossing of the Epping Highway I proceeded to drive down the gentle incline to the golf course. Ahead of me was a set of pedestrian traffic lights which controlled the foot traffic to and from a newly built shopping centre and which were signalling stop. Tap the brakes - nothing - try the hand brake - nothing - back through the gears - nothing. Panic! My passenger and myself leaning out the window yelling at the top of our voices to the (seemingly) hundreds of bipeds crossing the road - nothing. The lights must have changed as, like a parting of the Red Sea the throng of pedaustralians ceased its seemingly endless tramp across the road. We (the car and its hapless human cargo) cruised through the gap, carried on for a couple of hundred yards and came to a gentle stop on the road verge fifty or so metres up the rise after the dip.
On (hurriedly) disembarking - just in case we might have to stop the beast from rolling backwards - we found the wheel and the half shaft protruding some nine inches or so (it could have been a foot, but it was a jolly long way) from the body. The shaft had sheared at the differential end which resulted in the brake drum being displaced along with the shaft itself; hence no braking function. The differential, being released of one of its loads meant that the gears didn’t work (no limited slip diff).
I have often wondered what I might have done should that parting of people not happened.
Sort of familiar with exactly the same mechanical failure, but not the pedestrians oblivous to the unstoppable crazed Aussie driver…
I was a front seat passenger in an old SWB Land Rover and we discovered some distance from this farm we were visiting that a rear wheel assy behind me was smoking… We stopped to investigate and could not see a problem. We pulled off the road at the friends farm, drove over a cattle stop and proceeded up this steep gravel bumpy road up the hill to the farmhouse. I took a look outside and the wheel was undoing itself from the back axle - progessively going out further and further to the cliff face.
The driver finally did listen to this astonished and agitated 12 year old and stopped (putting the hand brake on… can’t remember if it worked or if he used 4WD and stopped in gear). Yes the back half axle was broken and the smoke was from the broken brake oil line I think, the wheel did not have to go much further before it was to fall off!!
Boy was I relieved to get out and walk the rest of the way!! :shock:
You guys are so funny…just what i need to wake myself up at 6:30 am thanks
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