Oakley MI show

Made it up there yesterday! Some bad traffic and lunch plans put us on site around 1:30. Hit the flea market, then decided we all were going to die of heat stroke so rented a cart and we drove the rest of the show. I stopped by the Oliver tent twice. First time it had a sign out saying it was a private event. Second time there was no one I knew there. I think the Oliver club did a great job and had a good turnout. The entire show was really great. Nice to be back after a year off. My wife and I have talked about it for a couple years but we think our next full restoration project is going to be an Oliver 550. Nice size to work on and we both like them a lot. We were talking about maybe hitting a few more shows in the future too. Anyway...it was a great show.

Crookedrows and I sat there with BAStar and Darrel Poindexter until after one yesterday. We took a break and went back for the HPOCA meeting at 2. That ended a little past 2:30, then we went out walking again. We must have just missed you coming and going. I met Lenray and ran in to Tractor Terry, as well as a few lurkers today. Long exhausting four days, but everything is home.

A slight disaster on the way home with the last load. Two tractors on the tri axle trailer, just started up the overpass on 57 over 127, the trailer whipped just a little bit, one time, then WHAM! The whole thing about went air born. Everything goes through your mind for a split second, then I saw a tire bouncing. A wheel bearing went out on the center axle and the whole hub came off. I pulled off real quick, jumped out and tried to kick the tire over when it rolled past, but it was going too fast.

Luckily it rolled straight up and over the overpass and finally went off and hit the guardrail and didn't go off the overpass and land on a car below.

We jacked the axle up and wrapped a chain up over the frame to hold it up. I know I ticked some people off by driving 45 the last 30 miles home, but I wasn't even comfortable going that fast. It's sure going to feel good to get in bed tonight!

I had a 7 hour drive with 13000 on the trailer and going through Louisville and Cincinnati it makes you nervous you never know what will happen glad that tire didnt hit anything

I bought 10 tickets for the Oliver 550 in the drawing. Pretty sure I am going to win it!!

Glad you made it home ok. I hope I didn't jinx you telling my trailer wheel story Friday. At lest it didn't hit a new car with 98 miles on it and you didn't have to have a roll-off tow the hole thing home for you.

I bet that first time I stopped by was around meeting time. The second time much later. Things happen when they are meant to happen I guess. Glad the trailer incident wasn't worse.

Didn't know about the raffle...I would have gotten in on that! When you win, give me a call....

This happened about 35 years ago, but i was on I-80 in Nebraska going west bound,and all the sudden i seen this tire and axle catapaulting through the air, and sparks flying of the bottom, somebody was pulling a trailer made out of a chevy Pickup,and the C clip that hold the axle came off groove,it was no danger of hitting me,but watched it all happened!!

I was there on Saturday as well. Missed Kim and Randy somehow.
It was warm but I still think I walked about three miles!
Didn't find any of the things I wanted in the flea market, but you
never know with that stuff what will be there and what won't.
I agree, it was a great show as usual!

I got a ticket on it. I'll sell it to you for $100.

I was thinking about the cattle on the roll back story after it happened. LOL

Oddly, I too was thinking I had heard a story about axle failure recently...

Glad you made it home safely.

We couldn't have been gone very long, I can still see her but print in the chair. LOL

We were back there around 4:30 to get out of the sun. Sat there for 15 minutes or so, then Darrel and I went looking for Sherry's new toy.

I lost one on a car hauling trailer coming back from Stanton one night at about 2am with a car on the trailer about 5 miles west of where you were across from that windmill down a couple miles from Pompeii. Some friends of mine farm across from that windmill and they found it in the cornfield that fall and brought the tire back to me later in the fall!