My new Water Trailer

[Barry Churcher]

Rob, congratulations on the trailer and you can never have too many. It's great that you have the coveted, impossible to find taps. Score.
Barry

[rob love]

The one large center tap is missing, but yes, the small ones are all there. For some reason I think I have one or two hiding somewhere, but have not seen them in a lot of years. They well may have been some of the plumbing off the second tank I got.

The scrapyard covers many acres over three or four sites, but if you look long enough, everything is somewhere out there.


Edited to add: I stand corrected. I went to retrieve the lid from the tank and the large tap was in there. What wasn't there was the smaller cover which bvolts onto the tank, and some of the clamps for the lid are bent. This is where the spare tank will come in...it will have all those. The water trailer was also used for waste oil at some point in it's life, so after I retrieve the old oil filter and some rags out of the bottom, I'll fill it with water and laundry detergent and let it sit in the hot sun. I'm going tohave to get onto that cause we don't have a lot of hot sun days left here in Manitoba.

[Bob Carriere]

.....and loaded with draft beer????

[Bob Phillips]

Nice trailer and a little hard to find. Two thoughts however, the several trailers I have seen and owned were incredibly over built and heavy, you may not be able to prevent the destruction of less pristine examples as scrap prices head well over $400 ton. Second I always thought the most difficult items to locate were the hand pumps and filter assemblies, have you got some stowed away?

[rob love]

No pumps or filters, but I won't need them. They were pulled during it's post war service and the jerry can bracket built in it's place. I'll grab a half dozen of the NOS water cans next time I am out at the surplus yard to fill that rack.

My first water trailer had most or all of that stuff. I have seen one or two more floating around Manitoba.