MSCH
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long story short... my Michigan buddy who winters in FLA asks me if I want to ride along, going to haul another MI persons trailer up to Leesburg and leave it up there, MI buddy potentially going to haul it back to MI when he goes home end of March.
show up at 7 am at the prospective trailer , these 2 womefolk in the trailer were the ones who wanted to leave early.
you don't think they had the trailer packed away or the hoses and drain tubes removed or the slides in do you?
nope... and the trailer battery was dead, even though they were staying init. so the slides wont operate nor will the hydraulic leveling.
ended up using jumper cables from a car to the RV battery in order to get the hydraulic stuff to do its thing..
then these two old ladies didn't want to leave their wooden steps behind so we needed to get that sucker in the back of the truck.
you don't think my MI buddy thought it would be a good idea to fill up his truck with fuel ahead of time, do you, so we ended up needing to buy fuel with the trailer connected.. since the RV was one of those Designer Suites, it was 40 feet long which means we sort of want to hit a truck stop... Flying J we pulled into was under construction in the back, that turned into a disaster. Since the trailer owner was paying for fuel, she decided she would go inside and pay cash... she finally come back outside and tell us she put 75 dollars on the pump.. at 4 25 a gallon she bought him 17 gallons of fuel for what amounts to a 500 mile round trip, half of it pulling a 40 foot 5er.
then we finally managed to get it where we were going, had to do the same jumper cable routine to get the unit off the truck. Decided to take the battery out of the unit and take it back with us, see if we can put some water in it ( it was bone dry) and maybe just maybe if they are lucky they wont have to buy a battery.
of course since it is prime snowbird season in Floriduh, traffic was pretty miserable all the way from Fort Myers to Wildwood Floriduh..
since my bud doesn't have a GPS we had trouble finding the place we were taking the trailer,of course when we were finally close enough to destination we missed it, had to find somewhere to turn around and get there..
decide to go back south a different way... take Fl Turnpike all the way south of Kissimmee to Lake Okeechobee , which is generally a more peaceful route than taking I 75 southbound from Wildwood, thru Tampa during afternoon rush hours, but we still had to deal with Orlando..which was as expected, Floriduh tourist season in full bloom.
eventually we get back where we started, and its time for me to go back to my house and my MI Bud says that was a PITA.
I didn't know the trailer was going to be so messed up or that they were going to be such a couple of wingnuts..
to which I replied, NO GOOD DEED GOES UNPUNISHED.
show up at 7 am at the prospective trailer , these 2 womefolk in the trailer were the ones who wanted to leave early.
you don't think they had the trailer packed away or the hoses and drain tubes removed or the slides in do you?
nope... and the trailer battery was dead, even though they were staying init. so the slides wont operate nor will the hydraulic leveling.
ended up using jumper cables from a car to the RV battery in order to get the hydraulic stuff to do its thing..
then these two old ladies didn't want to leave their wooden steps behind so we needed to get that sucker in the back of the truck.
you don't think my MI buddy thought it would be a good idea to fill up his truck with fuel ahead of time, do you, so we ended up needing to buy fuel with the trailer connected.. since the RV was one of those Designer Suites, it was 40 feet long which means we sort of want to hit a truck stop... Flying J we pulled into was under construction in the back, that turned into a disaster. Since the trailer owner was paying for fuel, she decided she would go inside and pay cash... she finally come back outside and tell us she put 75 dollars on the pump.. at 4 25 a gallon she bought him 17 gallons of fuel for what amounts to a 500 mile round trip, half of it pulling a 40 foot 5er.
then we finally managed to get it where we were going, had to do the same jumper cable routine to get the unit off the truck. Decided to take the battery out of the unit and take it back with us, see if we can put some water in it ( it was bone dry) and maybe just maybe if they are lucky they wont have to buy a battery.
of course since it is prime snowbird season in Floriduh, traffic was pretty miserable all the way from Fort Myers to Wildwood Floriduh..
since my bud doesn't have a GPS we had trouble finding the place we were taking the trailer,of course when we were finally close enough to destination we missed it, had to find somewhere to turn around and get there..
decide to go back south a different way... take Fl Turnpike all the way south of Kissimmee to Lake Okeechobee , which is generally a more peaceful route than taking I 75 southbound from Wildwood, thru Tampa during afternoon rush hours, but we still had to deal with Orlando..which was as expected, Floriduh tourist season in full bloom.
eventually we get back where we started, and its time for me to go back to my house and my MI Bud says that was a PITA.
I didn't know the trailer was going to be so messed up or that they were going to be such a couple of wingnuts..
to which I replied, NO GOOD DEED GOES UNPUNISHED.
so if push came to shove I would have just called one of my kids and asked them to come and get us, was never more than 250 miles from home.. 
