As a kid. about 14, i was at a mates place and him and i watched his dad weld a new safety chain to the box trailer.
The trailer was mostly rust and flaking paint and he put on an old hunk of rusty chain before hooking the whole lot up to the old AP5 Valiant wagon.
Halfway to the dump, the trailer pops off the hitch, cause the dummy didn't tighten up the old wind down nut on the hitch.
The racket a loaded box trailer can make at 60kph is deafening. When it wasn't trying to roar off into the scrub, it was punching the f#*k out of the rusty tailgate on the ol Val.
I still remember the tailgate window spraying glass over the back of the Val as the now; trailer from hell; continued its onslaught onto the now helpless Val.
As the mates old man was almost stopped, the trailer made one last attempt to kill the Val before it popped back out of the tailgate, broke the weld on the previously welded "safety chain" and then realised "I'm free", so the box trailer mounted the footpath and ran into a bus stop seat.
The mate's ol man, gets the three of us to help him put the trailer back on the Val, this time tightening the hitch before getting the hell outta there.
This time, no safety chain and no lights, due to the wiring being ripped from the plug.
For the next few klm to the dump, the ol boy is muttering, bloody faulty welding rods, that's what it was, faulty welding rods.
Oh, the tailgate on the Val was way beyond repair too, as it had its share of rust in it before being beaten and flogged like a red headed step child.
Hey Grafy82, nice welding.
