Oldfeller--FSO
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Fayetteville, NC
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Mine breaks using the wheels as the pivot point, no way to "slow down" the return motion other than a helper standing by to slow it down by hand.
I never plan to have to deal with it alone up at a trip, always lots of folks to help unloading it.
I do have to put it on and take it off by myself at home, so I have worked that drill out pretty well. I unfold the trailer, hook it up to the car, take a loop around the front yard and drive the car and the trailer perpendicular to my driveway with the car and trailer going down hill. That way when the trailer breaks, the slope of the trailer is much less. With 4 straps on it, I jack it up the slope and into position, then break the trailer back down and bolt / pin it all into flat running mode.
Unload is drive down the hill, break the trailer put some steady ropes on the handle bars, take the straps off, get on the bike and engage front brake, take off the steady ropes and roll backwards off the trailer.
I can do the same trick flat in the drive way, but I have to use two sets of steady ropes as the trailer tilt is much more severe and I roll the bike off from the back end of the bike, steadying it and letting the ropes out by hand slowly.
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Just finished up some rounds for my Ruger 10-22 deuce. You jest got to like the short light form factor of the 10-22 for screwing around shooting at cans, or for squirrel hunting. I only have a low magnification 4x wide field scope on the gun as my eyes do need the help seeing a bushy tail peeking one eye out past a trunk or a branch. Since mine is a deuce, I can still give him a right nasty little surprise when he tries to hide around the trunk from me like that.
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