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Reminds me of when I was 18 and spent the summer of 81, working as carney (Coincidentally in Wisconsin). We were moving the show, traveling in a convoy on a 2 lane highway. I was riding shotgun in an ancient (Maybe early Fifties?) Mack tractor, no seat, sitting on a bucket of hydraulic oil. We were pulling an 80K pound "Skydiver" ride and cursing about a hundred yards behind a food concession trailer. Suddenly the trailer broke free from the tow vehicle and started tumbling as we rapidly approached it, oncoming traffic in the other lane and a steep drainage ditch on the right. I remember thinking "This is it" but fortunately the trailer veered off into the ditch about 10 yards before we would have hit it.
The tongue of the trailer had been "Carny rigged" welded up out of scrap and just snapped off...
The tongue of the trailer had been "Carny rigged" welded up out of scrap and just snapped off...