Hi, my name is Doyle my wife and I purchased our Playpac tonight July 7, 2018, I am new to this forum but I hope to get an idea of how it works. I would really like to insert a music clip for you to hear but I don't know how its the great song on Hee Haw, Gloom, dispare and agony on me
The maiden trip home late, its dark and rainy, a tire blows out, its just shreds
to pieces, it was just dry rotted from setting so many years - no spare, no jack, stores closing, flatbed tow to local Walmart auto - 2 new
tires and we could resume our hour drive home 20 minutes later on a 2 lane road, our Playpac starts shaking and tried to pass us - it came unhitched from our truck - yes it was secured on -with hitch lock and chains and promptly rolled down a 50 foot embankment as I was trying to stop safely I imagined it rolling down in a free
fall an just totally demolished- to my amazement 50 feet down a really steep hill, it was sitting upright, it rolled down like a stately chariot with the hitch up in the air, dragging its butt down the grass
quick to story, 911 call to state troopers (wonderful people) another flatbed called out to winch it up the hill, found out that the latch broke even though it was locked, it popped off the 2 inch ball, the stress bent the crossed chain causing them to detach from the truck, sending the Playpac free to travel on its own. LESSON LEARNED - WHEN Y0U BUY AN OLD TRAILER, BUY NEW
TIRES FOR IT BEFORE YOU TAKE IT HOME, NEVER TRUST AN OLD HITCH AND ITS LATCH OR OLD SAFETY CHAINS - it BEEN A LONG AND STRESSFUL NIGHT ITS NOW 2 AM AND I AM STILL UP - I HAVE SOME GREAT PHOTOS OF OUR MAIDEN VOYAGE I WILL POST THEM GOT A GREAT SHOT OF MY WIFE AND I STANDING WITH THE TWO STATE TROOPERS WHO HELPED US. LOOKING FORWARD TO MANY MORE MEMORIES WITH THIS UNIQUE AND RARE CAMPER, REGARDS DOYLE