Wow, what an interesting week it was. The rain never stopped (and especially when it was time to tarp or untarp). I did not put on my sunglasses even once after leaving the house last Monday morning. At least I stayed down south all week and did not have to deal with all the ice up in the Midwest and up north.
On Thursday I did have a trailer tire blow out. Wow, was it loud when it blew. I thought somebody smashed into my trailer only to look back in the right mirror and see rubber pieces flying everywhere. I pulled off and went back to inspect and saw that when the largest piece of tread came off it grabbed hold of the mud flap and ripped the mud flap bracket off the trailer. Actually it was all twisted upwards under the trailer hanging there by a ¼ inch piece of aluminum. I reached up and wiggled it off without much effort and the flap and bracket came off in my hands.
It seems funny that the tire gave way. It had good tread and I never saw any visible cuts or damage. Our trailers have automatic airing systems to the trailer tires so the pressure should have been ok. I do thump the tires with a hammer when I pretrip also.
A tire service truck pulled up within 1 ½ hours after sending in a qualcomm breakdown message and I was off and rolling to my drop 20 minutes later.