[Rhodes22-list] Razf from Single Axle Triad to a Zero AxleTriad

[Razgaitis Richard]

Bypass Wreckers was the 'I'll scoop it up' guy (there is a whole family 
that works there and everyone's name starts with "J").  But then I had 
Coastal Wreckers truck the whole shebang from Rocky Mount to Rock Hall, 
from a rock to a hard place so to speak.  Don't know what it is about 
NC wreckers but they only take cash.  So the trailer now sits  at the 
marina in Rock Hall.  I have decided not to fix it.

The light I saw was the sparks coming from the longitudinal frame of 
the trailer dragging on I-95, b/c by the time I noticed anything that 
wheel had long gone.

When I bought the boat and trailer in  April the then owner was honest 
about it needing some upgrading, so I spent a good bit doing just that, 
including new bearings, rims, and tires and pretty much everything 
else.

New question:  my old Honda 8 is not the easiest to start (and I am 
getting lazy).  Anyone have experience with the new 8's or 9.9's (same 
carcass I understand)?  With electric start?  Is the XL shaft (25 
inches) the better choice?

raz
Rocky Rhodes

On Oct 2, 2004, at 8:46 AM, ed kroposki wrote:

>
> Raz,
>
> 	The wrecker service that came, by any chance from Ralph's?
>
> 	BTW, if it was light you might have seen your wheel roll by.
>
> 	Is the boat still at the wrecker service?  As Paul Harvey says, the
> rest of story?
>
> Ed K
>
> -----Original Message-----
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> [mailto:rhodes22-list-bounces at rhodes22.org] On Behalf Of Razgaitis 
> Richard
> Sent: Wednesday, September 29, 2004 11:34 PM
> To: rhodes22-list at rhodes22.org
> Subject: [Rhodes22-list] How to go from Single Axle Triad to a Zero
> AxleTriad
>
> By driving N on I-95 at 2 a.m. towing your trailer + rhodes, feeling a
> heavy, sudden jolt pulling back on your big SUV and looking out the
> passenger side mirror and seeing a light brighter than the center of
> the sun with the sparks of a thousand welders spraying everywhere.
> When I got (mostly) over to the shoulder and to a stop and ventured out
> into the night to see what was left, the entire, I mean entire, right
> side tire and rim was gone (Miami CSI wouldn't have found it), and only
> 35 degrees worth of my hub remained together with just two toasted stud
> bolts looking at me while crackling the surrounding air with heat
> vapors.  Near as I can tell, the hub or rim on that side just came
> apart and disappeared into the night sky and caused the trailer to fall
> down to the front-to-back rail on the right hand side and operated as a
> one-wheel and one-skid boat carrying device.  When I called AAA and
> tried to explain as carefully as I could my predicament, they called
> back to comfort me with the promise that someone was coming to fix my
> (non-existent) tire;  I tried to explain that there was no tire, no
> rim, and no hub.  And that I was thinking more on the lines of a
> Sikorsky not a tire-changer.  They later located a wrecker, who seemed
> to take it all in stride:  "let me come out there and see if I can
> scoop it up..." just like it was a dropping or something; but "scoop it
> up" is what he did.
>
> raz
> Rocky Rhodes
> Rock Hall MD
>
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