[TheForge] RE trailer comments

[Jerry Frost]

This was a real problem with the horse club we belonged to when I was a kid. 
Everybody had a trailer but everybody'd wired them imaginatively. Father and 
I got really fast at rewiring truck and or trailer to DOT standard. There 
was always someone with a breakdown needing a trailer towed by someone else.

Anytime we hauled a trailer or let someone haul our trailer we made them 
match our plug and wiring. No problem, they'd buy, Dad and I installed.

It'd be a really easy club rule/condition to use the trailer. Just use the 
DOT standard wiring code. Before long everyone will have the same plugs and 
wiring, even on none club trailers, etc. That's how it worked with the horse 
club, after a couple years we could haul each other's boats, camp trailers, 
utility trailers, etc.

Standardize the ball size too, it's way easier now days, with receiver 
hitches.

Frosty
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If it ain't forged
it ain't real.
Wrought iron is.
The FrostWorks

Meadow Lakes, AK.


From: "Bob Ehrenberger" <eforge at centurytel.net>


> Lighting can be an even bigger problem.  I loaned my personal trailer to a
> friend last year only to find out that he had the same kind of plug (4 
> flat)
> but had mounted the trailer connector on his truck.  So we had a gender
> problem.  I think you can get a gender bender plug but thats another 
> problem
> (times three for the three plugs you support).  Standards are only 
> standards
> when people follow them.
>
> I'm not sure what BAM does on it's trailer.  I'm sure connector issue has
> come up, probably with the second guy that had to pull it.
>
> Robert Ehrenberger
> Shelbyville, Mo.
> eforge at centurytel.net
>