Good morning. ☕🛠️🔧
15 October 2025
I had a new wood deck installed on my utility trailer, along with a wheel bearing repack and a light inspection. The total cost? Just over $900—nearly what I paid for the trailer brand new. As I sat in their office, I noticed a sign: $150 per hour. I thought to myself, whew, wow, and gee golly.
The trailer’s about 20 years old, and a new one of similar size today would run between $2,000 and $3,000. So I don’t feel too bad. Sure, I could’ve done the work myself for less than half the cost—except for the wheel bearings. That skill has long since packed up and left me. Truth is, I just didn’t want to do it. And they clearly did a better job than I would have.
If these repairs give the trailer another 20 years of life, it’ll be worth it—for me and likely someone else down the line. Bottom line: I no longer have to worry about my lawn mower falling through the deck on the way to the shop.
I have a hard time throwing things away when they can still be fixed. I rode my last lawn mower until the deck literally fell off. Only then did I consider letting it go. I managed to use it as a trade-in. The terms were simple: “If you take this off my hands, I’ll buy a new one from you.”
So off it went to their lawn mower graveyard 🪦—where its spirit rises every October to signal the beginning of lawn dormancy.
“Often, we try to repair broken things in such a way as to conceal the repair and make it ‘good as new.’ But the tea masters understood that by repairing the broken bowl with the distinct beauty of radiant gold, they could create an alternative to ‘good as new’… a ‘better than new’ aesthetic.” — Teresita Fernández
“Broken! Busted! Everybody has something to repair. Before buying new, let Mighty Putty fix it for you.” — Billy Mays
“Holding on is believing that there’s only a past; letting go is knowing that there’s a future.” — Daphne Rose Kingma
#morning #repairs #trailer #lawnmoser #GreatEgret #heron #egret #bird #future
