2 bads and a good.
I had 3 bad things happen this last week end. No one got hurt but the potential was there.
1. While looking for holes mice could get in I touched
the trailer frame and felt some electric current. I reached up and touched another piece of metal and felt the same thing.
I pulled out my outlet checker and found a bad outlet at the house. The ground was dry. I can only image what would have happened if I was lying in a puddle. Since I had the tester out out I checked all of the outside outlets on the house only that one was bad.
2. For some reason I removed the wheel chocks before I hitched up to come home. When I started lowering the hitch on to the ball the trailer rolled forward the hitched bounced on to the step bumper and stopped. I could have easily been pinched between the truck and the trailer.
NEW RULE. Never remove the chocks before completely hitched.
Now for the good. My son and my 4yr old grand son came up and camped over night for the first time. He had a ball. Had smores. Learned about cam fires. I had the cleanest campsite in the campground. There were no twigs or sticks over 1 inch long on the site after he found out how to add wood to a fire. He wanted a campfire the next morning. I told him, that is a warm your butt fire.:B I can only image what my DIL will have to say about that. She is not a camper.:(
1. While looking for holes mice could get in I touched
the trailer frame and felt some electric current. I reached up and touched another piece of metal and felt the same thing.
I pulled out my outlet checker and found a bad outlet at the house. The ground was dry. I can only image what would have happened if I was lying in a puddle. Since I had the tester out out I checked all of the outside outlets on the house only that one was bad.
2. For some reason I removed the wheel chocks before I hitched up to come home. When I started lowering the hitch on to the ball the trailer rolled forward the hitched bounced on to the step bumper and stopped. I could have easily been pinched between the truck and the trailer.
NEW RULE. Never remove the chocks before completely hitched.
Now for the good. My son and my 4yr old grand son came up and camped over night for the first time. He had a ball. Had smores. Learned about cam fires. I had the cleanest campsite in the campground. There were no twigs or sticks over 1 inch long on the site after he found out how to add wood to a fire. He wanted a campfire the next morning. I told him, that is a warm your butt fire.:B I can only image what my DIL will have to say about that. She is not a camper.:(
