
On to Pittsburgh (Day 5)
I woke up around 7:30 this morning, and luckily the weather had cooled off and dried out at some point in the night. Neither of us slept very well, but setting the fan up did help. Yesterday at dinner my sister told me that her car battery was dead and that she hadn’t been able to drive it for a couple of weeks. She said if she left it parked for more than a day, it didn’t have enough juice to start the car. I figured it had a parasitic drain, so I went and picked up a new

Trailer Brakes (and other adventures in welding) Part 1
When I bought the Wicked Tiny House shell, it didn't have brakes, which I knew. What I didn't know, was how much of a pain in the butt it was going to be to put brakes on it. The trailer sits on two 6,000 pound re-purposed mobile home axles. The previous owner did replace the bearings, but he did not take the time to install brakes. This style of mobile home axle originally came with non-serviceable brakes, and although the original brakes had previously been removed, the