Two loads of wood, and a little left.

So after mucking about with trevor’s trailer plug on his truck, we finally went and picked up the wood we cut last weekend. First, let me bitch about this damn trailer for a while.

Both our trucks have the flat type 7-pin trailer sockets on them, so we thought it’d be easiest just to stick a 7-pin plug on the trailer and wire it all up. No. :(

It turns out it was rather confusing, because there’s two color schemes for what’s pretty well a standard wiring layout for the plugs. At least, the wires that are in use on this little bitty trailer are all in the same spot.

But when I went to connect it up to Trevor’s truck, nothing works. Turns out, his truck was wired with all the wiring the same color as mine, but the plug they put on was for another color scheme. When they wired the trailer socket up, they just put “green wire” to “green screw” and called it a day – worse still, when I tried to rewire it, the entire corroded mess disintegrated.. so we had to pick up a new socket and wire it up.

Anyway, after that time it was well into the afternoon so we headed out to pick up the wood. The little bitty trailer isn’t good for much over about a ton, and this is some really great wood that’s quite dense so needless to say we couldn’t put much in it.

I’m not really the kind of guy who sits around and thinks about how to reduce belly fat, but sometimes I’ll play with my gut and just wish it were a bit smaller or flatter. Well, it was quite a workout lifting up those big-ass, un-split logs into the back of that damn trailer… specially considering that all the greenery has grown in at the woods, and it’s like a damn rainforest in there… so it felt like a sauna. :(

By the time we got done with it, there wasn’t quite enough wood left out there to warrant us coming back for a third load, so we left it. I was completely wrecked at that point, so we called it a night.

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