When I bought my house last year it came with an antique wooden farm trailer beside the garage. We're talking 30s/40s era stick axle with kingpin spindles. Lugnuts rusted permanently on. Old-growth lumber frame with decades of wear. Surely this is just lawn decoration at best, right? Wrong! Yesterday I mowed all the weeds down and freed it from its inevitable journey back to the earth. What a surprise, the wheels still spin! And the tires, though deflated and cracked, are so hardened that it rolls around the yard with ease. Now what good is a trailer without something to tow it with? So I fabbed a tiny hitch for my tiny lawn tractor to tow my not-so-tiny farm trailer around my relatively tiny 1 acre suburban lot.
I plan to use the trailer for picking up branches and sticks, which my lot seems to produce in bounty. I want to park it semi-permanently near the bonfire pit and add racks for storing firewood and kindling sticks. Right now my firewood is basically just a pile. More to come next weekend.
