By lunchtime yesterday, I had a grant proposal in the mail and a client's website updated.  Time to go out and play with Mark and the golf cart!

After the cut, I've included a bunch of photos about the process since I figure it might be useful to other folks who need to get a large piece of machinery up onto a trailer.  The trick is to back your trailer up to a steep enough hill so that the rear end of the trailer ends up level with the ground.

Here you see the only party injured by the afternoon's activity.  I forgot about my bread dough and let it rise for four hours instead of one.  Oops.  Luckily, the yeast still had plenty of gumption left to rise again in the pan.

The photos:

Step 1 --- using the comealong to winch the golf cart up the hill.  This went pretty smooth with Mark winching and me pushing from behind.

Then it was time to roll the trailer into place.  We propped up the front end on a cinderblock and old tire, which left the contraption a bit prone to rolling away.  So Mark tied the trailer down well with the tow strap on one side and a cable and the comealong on the other.  Good thing we have plenty of trees for attachment!

Then it was just a matter of rolling the golf cart down the hill and up onto the trailer.  Upsy daisy!

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About us: Anna Hess and Mark Hamilton spent over a decade living self-sufficiently in the mountains of Virginia before moving north to start over from scratch in the foothills of Ohio. They've experimented with permaculture, no-till gardening, trailersteading, home-based microbusinesses and much more, writing about their adventures in both blogs and books.



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