Ol' Blue

You know the saying, don't get the cart before the horse? Well, I've been doing that my whole life. I had horses before I had a trailer, and then I had a trailer before I bought a truck. But it all worked out. I've had my gray stock trailer for years and it's been a faithful companion in all my horse endeavors. I bought the six horse trailer thinking that I would use that more, what with hauling draft horses to the vet. Well, I was wrong. I still use old faithful more than any other trailer.

 



Mike mentioned that the gray stock trailer is about due for tires. And as every horse owner knows, buying trailer tires is never a cheap ordeal. Mike happened to be talking with one of his co-workers about trailers and tires and such. His co-worker mentioned that they wanted to sell a stock trailer. Keep in mind, that both of the trailers are paid for and my next big trailer purchase will be either a brand new stock trailer to replace the gray trailer that's starting to show more than it's fair share of wear, or buy a fancy slant load bumper pull trailer.

 

 

When Mike's co-worker said he wanted to sell the trailer for cheap, we hemmed and hawed on how much cheap would possibly be. I guess it never hurts to ask right? We ended up buying a slightly smaller, and older stock trailer for the price of the tires.

It's anything but fancy but it'll be nice to have a spare stock trailer. Actually, it's a blessing in disguise. I know it's not much to look at but it'll do for hauling horses in a pinch.

If the tires in the gray stock trailer give out before this summer, then we'll pull the tires off the blue trailer and put them on my stock trailer. Gravel eats up tires like a bag of Hershey kisses. But if the tires on the gray trailer don't get chewed up this winter running around for drill team practice, I'll switch trailers this summer. That will give time for Mike to work on the gray trailer and get it back in to working order. We've been limping along waiting for a chance to spend some "quality" time working on the gray trailer. Now with the blue trailer, Mike can spend all summer fixing up the gray trailer so I can use it in the winter time (or I'll pull out the six horse trailer. I just think it's silly to pull a six horse trailer for one horse). :-)

So nothing truly exciting or anything spectacular. But we bought a trailer for the price of the tires. I love scoring deals like that!