We hauled the rest of our logs home on our triple axle equipment trailer, but the last load was a real big one. It was three cords of green, large tamarack, meant for saw logs for our hayloft floor. We drove very slowly as there are a lot of frost heaves in the paved roads between here and there. When we were only 6 miles from home, we hit a break in the road and the trailer bounced. BANG! SCRAPE! Oh oh! Not good. Will stopped the truck and found that the bolts that bolted the hitch to the frame had snapped and dropped the hitch to the pavement. And we were right in the middle of a two lane road. I tried calling David on my cell phone. No David. So I called our friend and neighbor, Jerry Yourczek, who David works for in the hayfields. Luckily, he was home and brought his truck to help. (We “save” each other, off and on all year!) While we were waiting, Will and I cranked and cranked up the dolly jack, raising the hitch from the road to level. Luckily, Will forced the hitch out of the receiver and I pulled the truck down the road and parked it out of the way. Then we continued cranking the VERY heavy trailer higher. Finally, Jerry showed up and we quickly hitched the trailer onto his truck. Whew!

The next morning, we used David’s truck to haul the load home from Jerry’s yard and all went well. Now Will has the logs all stacked in neat piles: barn beam logs, saw logs, and fence posts. And he’s been sharpening and peeling them, getting ready to fence this spring (in our spare time).


I just wanted to let you all know that everything does NOT always run smoothly around this homestead! — Jackie

4 COMMENTS

  1. C Phelps,

    We will be married on June 11th and we’re excited about the time, coming soon. And afterward, the next week, we’ll be at the Energy Fair in Custer, WI, manning the BHM booth. What an appropriate honeymoon!

    Jackie

  2. I enjoy your blog posts. How’s the engagement going, and when’s the wedding? All of you do a lot of work, that’s for sure. I like your lifestyle, but I am not so sure I could handle it. I’m not lazy either, but I am in my 70s and no where as knowledgeable as all of you on how to live as you do. I’m content to garden, my fourth year this year, and I’ve installed a wood cooking/heating stove this spring (as I remodeled the kitchen to accomodate the stove). Hopefully, I will get some chickens soon, and I wish them luck on surviving me and my wife since we are totally inexperienced at keeping anything alive except ourselves and our cat. Then I want to get something that gives up milk, cheese, butter, ice cream, etc., but I don’t know what to get yet. Goats or cows seem about the only choices. If cows, I want to look into the minature cows, Dexters, perhaps. They seem less dangerous than 1200 pound cows. Also they don’t give out so much milk I would not know what to do with it all. Sorry for the rambling, but I enjoy your blog and your expertise.

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