07-23-2006, 10:54 PM
The morning started off on a bad note, as the wife and I were traveling east bound on Antelope Drive this morning and crossing over several of our viaducts that you just about go airborn on ( But I always slow for these particular two in a row) our trailer came unbuttoned from the hitch, all I can say is thank god I use safety chains and we were only doing about 30 MPH in a 45MPH zone. The hitch on the trailer nailed the rear bumber of the truck and it will have to be replaced (bumper). We called 911 and two brave Officers showed up in a matter of a few minutes to set up some Flashing lights. Had to dig out the ol'handyman jack to raise it enough to re-hook too my hitch. Everything was down and locked with a security lock through the latch handle. The only thing I could figure happened is when we pulled out of Micky-Dees with a couple of breakfast sandwiches that the drop down and up from the drive to the main road must have been enough to allow it to pop up on the ball. Once I was reconnected to the hitch I did manage to get a wrench on a couple of the nuts on the trailer hitch and tighten them some. I hope that solves the problem. I'm just glad we were only doing 30 MPH instead of the 65 MPH I would have been doing once we got on the Interstate. We finally launched about 6:30 and fished until 11:00, we only boated five Kitties so it was kind of slow for us. Water was fairly calm with no bugs, so that made it tolerable. I think LunkerHunter2's bad luck is starting to rub off on me.[
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