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Posted: Sat May 01, 2004 4:59 pm
by Gareth
I've found the bit in the Morris Workshop Manual (dated 1971, I think - it's the proper Morris garages one) and all varieties (MM, SII, 1000) have a trailer weight of 607kg...
Posted: Tue May 11, 2004 2:58 pm
by Kevin
The trailer is Andy's department
Elaine I know this sounds obvious, but having done a lot of camping in the past with a trailer its amazing how many people get into trouble because they dont have a spare wheel or suitable wheel brace and jack although I am sure you and Andy have got this covered
Posted: Tue May 11, 2004 6:04 pm
by salty_monk
and jack
Depends how loaded you are & how strong I guess....
Posted: Tue May 11, 2004 9:19 pm
by Matt
Depends how loaded you
You mean if you can afford to pay someone to come and change the wheel???
Posted: Wed May 12, 2004 9:41 am
by salty_monk
That too
but what I really meant was with a light loaded small trailer you can probably lift it on one side to get the wheel off & on. I've done this myself, certainly easier with someone else to help or a jack though....
Posted: Wed May 12, 2004 11:30 am
by Matt
Our trailer is heavy enough unloaded........ I think its abou 250kg so its very hard work to do what you suggested salty!!!!
Posted: Wed May 12, 2004 1:48 pm
by salty_monk
You're 6'5" & you can't lift a 250kg trailer onto 1 wheel you only have to raise it about 3 inches... Are you a rake??
Myself & 3 friends picked up a fiat the other year & moved it.... seemed like a good idea at the time; must have been all the beer!
Sounds like that trailer is a bit on the big size for a minor, doesn't leave too much payload left for whatever you fill it with.... Are you sure that's not it's maximum load?
Posted: Wed May 12, 2004 1:53 pm
by Matt
I can lift it, its just hard work!!!! and i wouldn't say im a rake......
Posted: Wed May 12, 2004 1:53 pm
by Kevin
Are you a rake??
Now now just because he lives in a Port
Posted: Wed May 12, 2004 3:42 pm
by Matt
Que? I don't live in a port! although its nice to drink.......
Posted: Wed May 12, 2004 3:46 pm
by Kevin
I don't live in a port!
OK Matt I bow to your local knowledge, when did Southampton cease to be a port (sea type not bottled)
Posted: Wed May 12, 2004 5:12 pm
by Matt
I don't live in the port..... in fact I don't live in Southampton, its just the closest city, I live about 20 miles from it!!
Posted: Wed May 12, 2004 5:20 pm
by salty_monk
What would a rake be doing in a port?? I thought rakes were for grass?
Posted: Wed May 12, 2004 5:23 pm
by Matt
hmm notice the subtle deviation from the original subject.................
Posted: Wed May 12, 2004 5:43 pm
by salty_monk
Don't rakes have anything to do with tyre pressures then??
Posted: Wed May 12, 2004 5:44 pm
by 57traveller
RAKE - a dissolute man in fashionable society.
DISSOLUTE - unrestrained by convention or morality.
In other words a debaucher and womaniser!
Oops, correction, it should have been morality.
Posted: Wed May 12, 2004 6:00 pm
by Matt
Well if you drive over a rake, it could decrease your tire pressures..............
DISSOLUTE - unrestrained by convention or mortality.
Mortality???? So a rake doesn't die....... surely you mean morality
Posted: Wed May 12, 2004 6:48 pm
by Gareth
Yup, reckon some gremlins must've got into the system there... definitely a person of loose morals. Couldn't get any to fit, I gues...
Anyhow, you're being most rakehelly... the off-topicness is playing havoc with 57's definitions!
;)
Posted: Wed May 12, 2004 10:38 pm
by Cam
You're 6'5" & you can't lift a 250kg trailer
It's usually the shorter stockier people that can lift weights better (weight lifters??). Better mechanical advantage and lower centre of gravity
And no, Matt is not a rake!
Although his Traveller does have a slight one!
(Sorry)
Posted: Wed May 12, 2004 10:56 pm
by Matt
well its true......