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Trailering Tip For the Day: More Tire Talk
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Trailering Tip For the Day: More Tire Talk
Sponsored by Montana Horse Trailers Do you know the piece of equipment on your trailer most likely to fail? Your Tires! 3 Things to remember about ST tires:
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Trailering Tip For the Day: Pop Quiz
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We want to see how many of you know- What is the most important tire maintenance task?
Answer: Checking the PSI for proper inflation!
10 Tire Maintenance Tips: 1. The MAIN CAUSE of TIRE FAILURE IS UNDER inflation. 2. ALWAYS inflate to the maximum indicated. 3. Check …
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Trailering Tip For the Day: Spring Cleaning!
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Take your trailer to an industrial cleaning sight. Have the Exterior and Horse or Garage Compartment professionally cleaned. Spring is a great time to do this or after the last time you will be Winter driving. You want all the ice melt solutions thoroughly washed off, including …
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Trailering Tip For the Day: More Tire Talk
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Additional Sidewall Icons may indicate unique benefits.
M & S (M +S) = tire meets the Rubber Manufacturers Association’s standards for a mud and snow tire. The letters can be found in the following combinations: M+S, M/S, and M&S. All-season tires carry this mark.
Green X® Marking …
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Trailering Tip For the Day:Let’s Talk Tires-What are ALL those numbers and letters
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What are ALL those numbers and letters on my tire’s sidewall?
They tell your more than 12 things.
The last 4 digits of the numbers following DOT tell you the week of the year and the year the tire was manufactured. Ex: DOT…….0409 would mean the tire …
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Quite Hands
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My partner is tree guy, not a horse person. But he is interested in dressage and asked me one morning at breakfast, “So when you are riding, doing like a half pass or something, are you telling the horse every …
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Trailering Tip For the Day:Let’s Talk Tires
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Why do I have to worry about my tires “sitting”?
The materials in tires also include waxes and emollients, protecting the outer surface from ozone and weather cracking (also called weather checking).
The rolling and flexing of tires during normal use continually forces the waxes and emollients …
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Trailering Tip For the Day:Don’t forget, Your time is valuable
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Wash your trailer and truck often, especially after long trips. Urine, manure, and road chemicals ALL corrode BOTH Aluminum and Steel. Most Big Rig full service washes will clean exterior AND interior for a reasonable price. These facilities have powerful equipment and can do a thorough job.
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Trailering Tip For the Day:Tip for the co-pilot
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Make sure the co-pilot has the card in the camera when traveling through picturesque country.
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Trailering Tip For the Day:Another Use for Stall Mats
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This morning I noticed that the piece of wood one of the jacks was sitting on had split and the jack was sinking into the moist sand. So another great use for the stall mat material is to use as a base on which the jacks will …
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Pet Him, Properly Releasing with the Inside Rein
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What happens when you ride your horse and give with the inside rein? Next time you ride, try it out. At any gait, establish contact and softness and then reach your inside hand forward towards his ears to release pressure. …
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Trailering Tip For the Day:Stall Mats and RV Leveling
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Stall Mats cut in various sizes for RV Leveling: Tough; Long-lasting; Won’t Crack in the Cold Adjust Every Wheel Individually store ANYWHERE- back of your pickup, floor of tack room, storage bin, unused stall, etc.
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Trailering Tip For the Day:Don’t sacrifice quality
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You shouldn’t and DON’T have to sacrifice quality and safety to buy a new living quarters trailer. Trail Rider and Road Rider Trailers are the highest quality living quarters trailers I have seen (and I’ve seen many brands), BUT they are one of the lowest priced trailers …
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Trailering Tip For the Day:Check the weather before you leave…
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Check the weather before you leave all along your route and re-check it often.
Have some back-up stops along your route in case you need to stop earlier or leave later in the day than you expected, you encounter bad roads, or will be driving into bad …
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