Little Projects

So between the garden, 6 hours a week on a lawn tractor, dog walking-followed by tick checks, dog shearing, dog obedience class, dog swim lessons, dog feeding-followed by dog poop patrol...natually. Noticing a trend here? Then there are normal house chores, not so normal lumberjack impersonation & turtle highway safety patrol and of course the dreaded 4 letter word: WORK otherwise known as J.O.B.

I'm making progress, albeit slowly. I know, they sound like excuses. Here's some proof.







Rewired the trailer plug so it will work with my truck. I've only pulled it with my van so far and it has the power and brake wired in reverse. This makes things interesting. Next, I'll correct the van wiring.

Continued to clean the interior...after removing the accumulated STUFF from within. Seems like trailers become a storage unit if your not careful. Dog kennels, office chair, spare restoration parts, future gaucho cushions salvaged from our sofa & love seat the dogs thought was their teething toy. Three hours later I can actually walk through!

Installed new license plate. Wisconsin is funny. I have a brand new looking 4 year old license plate and now I have another. My cars, on the other hand, have really grungy looking plates that they choose not to refresh. Go figure. They must want to keep the boys in our numerous prisons busy. They went from blue to grey. Boring to really drab. Too bad I can't polish it!

Decided I needed to exercise the anti-aging compounds in the tires. Truth be known, I get a kick out of towing this beast. Plus, the dogs wanted to go for a ride.

I wanted to see how the Toyota would handle the load. Due to gearing differences, the Toyota did better towing with a 4.7 liter V-8 than my 5.7 liter Chevy van. The van has too steep a rear gear which at 3.73 you wouldn't think. Fine for 75 mph in overdrive but put it in tow mode and it feels like the engine is "screaming". Need to put a tach on it to find out for sure.



The Toyota hums along in Tow mode at just 500 more RPM than Over Drive at highway speeds. 2500 rpm versus 2000. Hopefully the mileage doesn't suffer too badly. No sway at speeds to 70mph. Stock mirrors provide good rear view, plus opening front and rear trailer window blinds allows view to the rear. Looks like a winner!