The risk of running older equipment

Cause of fire?

 

What makes you think this was older equipment?

 

Dave Sweetman in one of his recent articles told about the time he delivered a brand new trailer and it had a hub fire and burnt. But like the OP says, must have been old!

 

Probably ran a hub dry and it caught the tire on fire. Just my guess.

 

that's the risk with all equipment

 

Everything spontaneously combust’s once it hits 20 years old. It’s a built in time use limit feature to assure the manufacturers to sell new stuff. Starting with the 2016’s they lowered that time limit to 3 years.

 

It's been over a decade since boydston made that particular trailer.

Not disagreeing with y'all's point that older doesn't necessarily mean spontaneously combust

 

“ heard an explosion” , was more like he didn’t see , or did see the smoke pouring out of the wheels when a brake can locked up and cooked an axle seal and just kept going. Just like every smashed front bumper was a “ deer”
Lol....
Well maintained older equipment is just as , if not more reliable than newer equipment. A lot has to do with the ### in the seat.

 

It was a deer I promise........