Runaway utility trailer
Last winter I was adjusting
the position of our utility trailer beside this hill and it got away
from me. Luckily it stopped by a young box elder tree near the
bottom.
Today was the day we decided
to pull it back up the hill with the tow
strap to make room for some future piles of wood chips from the
local tree cutting crew.
It's still at the bottom of
the hill.
The tongue kept rubbing on
the hillside while the Ford Festiva exhaust blew extra strong puffs in
my direction.
We'll attack this problem
another day when I can figure out a more reasonable approach that
involves more oxygen and less carbon monoxide.
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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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Try putting a 2 x 4 vertically near the top of the bank and use it like a gin pole to get the tongue of the trailer up so it doesn't dig into the bank. You may want to put a single nail through your tow rope into the end of the 2x4 so it doesn't slip off. By the time the time the gin pole falls down you should be most or all the way up the bank.
Make the gin pole like and inverted "T" with a short diagonal brace to keep it from tipping. Make sure it's a bit more than 90 degrees to the slope. Down slope not up. The arc of the moving pole will pull the tongue up and get you up and out.
Vester-I like the gin pole idea. That's a new term for me.
Jon-Thank you! That makes so much sense. I'm pretty sure we can pivot it around so that the tongue is facing the other way.