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| Yeah, uh so...I'm driving through old ranch property near Benson Az and the day was glorious. Sunflowers blooming along the freeway, white fluffy clouds floating in a cobalt blue sky. We've had so much rain this year that it's a jungle out there. And sitting among a bed of weeds was this. A 1955 horse trailer. A old weathered cardboard sign that said;
"Kelly. Take me home and save me."
So I pulled over and the kid was more than happy to have this taken off his hands...
My husband may never speak to me again....
"What? You can fix anything, Ty. Why are you looking at me like that?"
"It NEEDS you."
"No, I don't want a divorce! No, I only paid two hundred for it."
"I don't think it used to haul dinosaurs but that is an awfully big shit petrified in the back..."
"Ty...Ty... honey...don't walk out on me...."
Stay tuned to see what happens next....My divorce or a magical restoration of this really crappy trailer.  |
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Hawty & Nawty
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| This takes the cake of crappy trailers...although the big blue one was a handfull.
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| Awwww I don't think it's THAT bad! I like the horses on it! |
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Hawty & Nawty
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| Some people rescue horses...I like to torture "Mr Fix It" with shitty trailers and numerous children. |
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Location: At the race track with Ah Dee Ohs | Well, that doesn't look terribly bad. Maybe Ty won't divorce you just yet. Maybe a goldmine in the making!!
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Hawty & Nawty
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| MissouriJen - 2014-10-14 1:32 PM Awwww I don't think it's THAT bad! I like the horses on it!
I was just surprised it made it back to Marana from Benson. I kept looking in the rear view mirror to see if parts of it weren't falling along the road... |
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| I bet it will look great when done. Just remind your hubby he needs another project! |
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| RidenFly - 2014-10-13 3:34 PM
MissouriJen - 2014-10-14 1:32 PM Awwww I don't think it's THAT bad! I like the horses on it!
I was just surprised it made it back to Marana from Benson. I kept looking in the rear view mirror to see if parts of it weren't falling along the road...
They make nets for that problem. |
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Hawty & Nawty
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| My teenager in the back sunk in the back seat. "Mom, what if my friends see me?"
"Oh don't worry, the whole town knows your mother is nuts."
NICE |
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Location: Oklahoma | Actually, that looks really good compared to some of the ones around here! lol They're so rusted you can't even tell what color they are. |
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Hawty & Nawty
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| rowdy256 - 2014-10-14 1:35 PM RidenFly - 2014-10-13 3:34 PM MissouriJen - 2014-10-14 1:32 PM Awwww I don't think it's THAT bad! I like the horses on it! I was just surprised it made it back to Marana from Benson. I kept looking in the rear view mirror to see if parts of it weren't falling along the road... They make nets for that problem.
LOL...I had a handful of bunjee cords just in case.  |
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Hawty & Nawty
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| dianeguinn - 2014-10-14 1:37 PM Actually, that looks really good compared to some of the ones around here! lol They're so rusted you can't even tell what color they are.
See...there is beauty in this somewhere... |
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Location: Eastern OH but my heart is in WV | Heck, I have seen people pulling ones way worst with livestock in them |
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Location: Oregon | Looks like the first trailer I had - and had to make payments on - LOL But - I'm in Oregon so imagine it with a ton of rust !
Maybe you could start a new trend with refurbishing old horse trailers - like the old travel trailer refurbishing trend!
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Hawty & Nawty
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| It's been over a year since the last trailer restore. I thought he'd be happy. LOL |
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| Rolling J - 2014-10-14 1:50 PM Heck, I have seen people pulling ones way worst with livestock in them
There's this one guy who loads his horse in a landscape trailer and the sides are wooden fencing. I'm always scared to death when I see him heading for the wed night ropings. |
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| Don't look that bad |
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Location: Here | RidenFly - 2014-10-13 3:30 PM This takes the cake of crappy trailers...although the big blue one was a handfull.
I LIKE IT~~~ |
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| I have seen ALOT worse than that pulling up at some of our races. |
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Location: NM...the Land of Manana | LOL, I wish I had pictures of the 1898 2 horse in-line that was at our house a few years back, makes that one look like a beauty! |
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Location: In a happy place | You are so funny! I like your trailer. |
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Hawty & Nawty
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| 1898?? Lightfoot were there even trucks back then to pull it? bwhahahaaaaa j.k.
So yeah, it's still sitting out there ignored. I can't even mention it to hubs. But on a side note...we had a power surge this morning and it activated the scores of halloween props that plug in ....needless to say it was a hell of a way to wake up. Scared me to hell and back. |
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Location: In a happy place | RidenFly - 2014-10-14 4:33 PM 1898?? Lightfoot were there even trucks back then to pull it? bwhahahaaaaa j.k.
So yeah, it's still sitting out there ignored. I can't even mention it to hubs. But on a side note...we had a power surge this morning and it activated the scores of halloween props that plug in ....needless to say it was a hell of a way to wake up. Scared me to hell and back.
Lol! |
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| Are you sure it was a power surge and not the hubby exacting his revenge for bringing home that new project. lol |
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Location: NM...the Land of Manana | RidenFly - 2014-10-14 3:33 PM 1898?? Lightfoot were there even trucks back then to pull it? bwhahahaaaaa j.k.
So yeah, it's still sitting out there ignored. I can't even mention it to hubs. But on a side note...we had a power surge this morning and it activated the scores of halloween props that plug in ....needless to say it was a hell of a way to wake up. Scared me to hell and back.
I think they pulled it with Clydesdales and I believe it had a Teddy Roosevelt for president bumper sticker on it! |
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Location: The best kept secret in TX | I missed the blue one...
Any pics of before and after to share of that one??? |
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| Lightfoot - 2014-10-15 9:49 AM
RidenFly - 2014-10-14 3:33 PM 1898?? Lightfoot were there even trucks back then to pull it? bwhahahaaaaa j.k.
So yeah, it's still sitting out there ignored. I can't even mention it to hubs. But on a side note...we had a power surge this morning and it activated the scores of halloween props that plug in ....needless to say it was a hell of a way to wake up. Scared me to hell and back.
I think they pulled it with Clydesdales and I believe it had a Teddy Roosevelt for president bumper sticker on it!
I thought she bought it from broke down Amish folks that made it down to Benson where she found it. |
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Hawty & Nawty
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| rowdy256 - 2014-10-16 3:49 PM Lightfoot - 2014-10-15 9:49 AM RidenFly - 2014-10-14 3:33 PM 1898?? Lightfoot were there even trucks back then to pull it? bwhahahaaaaa j.k.
So yeah, it's still sitting out there ignored. I can't even mention it to hubs. But on a side note...we had a power surge this morning and it activated the scores of halloween props that plug in ....needless to say it was a hell of a way to wake up. Scared me to hell and back.
I think they pulled it with Clydesdales and I believe it had a Teddy Roosevelt for president bumper sticker on it!
I thought she bought it from broke down Amish folks that made it down to Benson where she found it.
That made me spit up. I swear. Too early to be so damn funny.
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Location: lost in missouri | That baby is in mint condition if you saw some of the trailers around here. |
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Hawty & Nawty
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| IRunOnFaith - 2014-10-16 3:45 PM I missed the blue one...
Any pics of before and after to share of that one???
Here you go. This one will not be forgotten by anybody. When we brought it home, rust literally was falling down onto the ground. My husband tore it down to the frame to find a nest of lady bugs. We had lady bugs around here for months. LOL. Then one day he was welding on the frame and that night we were on the other side of the house when I could smell steaks. I thought the neighbor was having a barbeque. The next morning we discovered that a stray welding spark started all the wood he removed from the sides and the floor on fire. My husband completely rebuilt the entire trailer. NOTHING will EVER be as EVIL as Big Blue.
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Hawty & Nawty
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| It's only worth rebuilding if you get them for next to nothing. But my husband enjoys the projects. Well, he used to. I think Blue gave him nightmares. |
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Location: Florida | It looks better than my first trailer, a 1960's homemade painted with a paint brush. |
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| RidenFly - 2014-10-16 10:51 AM
It's only worth rebuilding if you get them for next to nothing. But my husband enjoys the projects. Well, he used to. I think Blue gave him nightmares.
Maybe Blue felt like a Stephen King book Christine with a dose of Pet Cemetary and It in there to him? |
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Location: The best kept secret in TX | RidenFly - 2014-10-16 10:48 AM IRunOnFaith - 2014-10-16 3:45 PM I missed the blue one...
Any pics of before and after to share of that one???
Ahahaha!! Big Blue was BAD! |
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Hawty & Nawty
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| rowdy256 - 2014-10-17 11:20 AM RidenFly - 2014-10-16 10:51 AM It's only worth rebuilding if you get them for next to nothing. But my husband enjoys the projects. Well, he used to. I think Blue gave him nightmares. Maybe Blue felt like a Stephen King book Christine with a dose of Pet Cemetary and It in there to him?
Did you say pet cemetary? Because Big Blue used to have a wench attached to that first bar across the front for hauling in dead horses. I'm tellin ya, that trailer was evil. |
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| RidenFly - 2014-10-16 3:11 PM
rowdy256 - 2014-10-17 11:20 AM RidenFly - 2014-10-16 10:51 AM It's only worth rebuilding if you get them for next to nothing. But my husband enjoys the projects. Well, he used to. I think Blue gave him nightmares. Maybe Blue felt like a Stephen King book Christine with a dose of Pet Cemetary and It in there to him?
I was wondering what that thing was on the front. |
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| RidenFly - 2014-10-16 3:11 PM
rowdy256 - 2014-10-17 11:20 AM RidenFly - 2014-10-16 10:51 AM It's only worth rebuilding if you get them for next to nothing. But my husband enjoys the projects. Well, he used to. I think Blue gave him nightmares. Maybe Blue felt like a Stephen King book Christine with a dose of Pet Cemetary and It in there to him?
Wench---female who fetches ale for sailors
Winch--- mechanical device for pulling things |
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Location: Minnesota | 
This ones for sale in MN...Come get it Only on CL
Full ad:
http://minneapolis.craigslist.org/ank/grd/4694810542.html |
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| aquinnell - 2014-10-16 11:26 PM
This ones for sale in MN...Come get it Only on CL Full ad: http://minneapolis.craigslist.org/ank/grd/4694810542.html
It has potential kinda looks like a bubble monster |
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Hawty & Nawty
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| rowdy256 - 2014-10-18 7:03 AM
aquinnell - 2014-10-16 11:26 PM
This ones for sale in MN...Come get it Only on CL Full ad: http://minneapolis.craigslist.org/ank/grd/4694810542.html
It has potential kinda looks like a bubble monster
@Bennie- LMAO well, hell, that's a great typo right there!!!
And LOOK at this trailer!!!!! I LOVE those fenders!!! HOw much is it? |
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Location: Somewhere in the middle of nowhere |
I honestly think this is a pretty cool trailer.....the possiblities if someone had the time and money to fix it up! I would love to see this fixed up! |
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Location: Cap'n Joan Rotgut.....alberta | nmeastplains - 2014-10-18 9:11 AM I honestly think this is a pretty cool trailer.....the possiblities if someone had the time and money to fix it up! I would love to see this fixed up!
me to..i think its kinda neat......
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Hawty & Nawty
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| Wouldn't that look beautiful being pulled by an old Ford?
I would buy it. I'd probably offer them 500 though. |
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| Looks kinda like an AirStream to me. It is pretty cool looking. |
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Location: Cap'n Joan Rotgut.....alberta | RidenFly - 2014-10-18 9:36 AM Wouldn't that look beautiful being pulled by an old Ford?
I would buy it. I'd probably offer them 500 though.
or an old caddy.....lol
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| mruggles - 2014-10-18 8:41 AM
RidenFly - 2014-10-18 9:36 AM Wouldn't that look beautiful being pulled by an old Ford?
I would buy it. I'd probably offer them 500 though.
or an old caddy.....lol
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You're right. An old caddy convertible with Luke Bryan driving. DAAAANNGGG.... |
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