Another very useful day

The weather forecast is very problematic going towards the end of the week. The reason is that we’re getting high temperatures – today we had 30 degrees Celsius – and they often turn into thunderstorms if the air is also a bit unstable. So with that possibility in mind, I wanted to get across to Brico Depot as son as possible now that the Kia has its tow-bar fitted, even without trailer electrics, to pick up the ballast I need. It also gave me the opportunity to drop my last few rubbish bags off, which were a bot mucky from having stood outside for a while, in the ‘poubelles’ as I drove past. I took the following two pictures with the trailer hitched up before I drove off.

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I was a bit worried that the Kia tow-bar might be a bit high for my relatively quite small trailer and that its nose might be slightly raised, but in the event I needn’t have worried, because it sat level, especially with a weight in. The ‘big bags’ of ballast that I wanted to fetch each weighed 400 kg, which happens to be the maximum rating of my trailer, so I had to make two trips this afternoon over to Trélissac. In fact I also loaded two 35 kg bags of cement as well on the first trip and one on the second, so my trailer did very well as it was pretty much loaded down.

I had to un-hitch the trailer and tip it up backwards to get each bag off, but now they’re standing side-by-side outside where I plan to run the cement mixer. I don’t think I’ll do that straight away tomorrow as I think that I’ll finish the tow-bar installation first and run the trailer electrics. I don’t like leaving too many things half-done and hopefully it won’t take more than a couple of hours. In any event, the new tow-bar did its job well and today ended up being very useful.