Tenuous Towing

One night coming down the freeway towards Sydney about 3am, half a dozen of us were playing silly buggers trying to stay awake come over the top as you drop down to Joles bridge north of the Hawkesbury we came across a car or should I say we all nearly run over a car coming the wrong way up the freeway looking for his trailer, it was about 5 K's back less the A frame

Many trailers appear to be designed/built specifically to break at the A frame ... (crumple zone maybe?) either at the front of the chassis, or at the spare wheel carrier.
One (big name) trailer that came in for repairs was a heavy duty jobby, 3.5 tonne GVM. A frame was 150mm by 75mm; 6mm wall.
Four bolt Tow hitch had the rear bolts into a plate made from 3mm flat ...

The South Australian gummint supplied guide to building trailers makes for some entertaining reading, and goes a long way to explaining some of the failures that occur.

Tuesday

Very neat indeed.

If only he could have found a piece of hardwood!
Oh I remember hardwood costs more than pine.

A drink of Linseed will help it be more flexible.

Looks to be a good tight fit so wooden rattle !!!

Wednesday

You can dry your towels on the twin towel rails as you drive home from the beach.

Definitely a Lexus drivers engineering ability.

Thursday