"The problem ain't going to Fix Itself", but this time somehow it did.

homeskillet · Jan 24, 2020

A Bug said: ↑

I doubt that God miraclously fixed it. His miracles are that of Christ giving sight to the blind and raising the dead, not repairing some lazy tucker's conestoga.
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Never doubt. There are miracles large and small.

Just wait, until you see what He can do.

mustang190 · Jan 24, 2020

You can thank me latter. Just helping out.

dowin3 · Jan 24, 2020

A Bug said: ↑

For the last three hundred miles I've been trying to figure this out.

My Conestoga had a problem. It would not lock down in the rear, so while driving it would hang loosely and flap in the wind.

The mechanism used a metal bar screwed in that would lock in the place with the use of a winch bar and an oversized allen wrench adapter.

The metal bar was upside down and jammed in place so I planned on using a mallet and some WD-40 later on the fix the problem, but I was in a hurry at the moment and needed to get on the next load so I figured I would just wait until I shut down for the night and work on it at a truck stop.

Thing is that night it was about 18 degrees and snowing so being lazy as I am I just put it off for later and went to sleep.

While driving the next day I noticed my Conestoga was not flapping loosely in the wind. When I got to my receiver to unload a couple aluminum coils I look at the thing and it is fixed. Metal bar is right side up and locked in place.

It is impossible for it to have just bumped into place by the shaking of the trailer. It would require the force of at least 20 lbs on that winch bar to lock it in place while using the adapter key.

I doubt that God miraclously fixed it. His miracles are that of Christ giving sight to the blind and raising the dead, not repairing some lazy tucker's conestoga.

That leaves only the possibility that someone else fixed it while I was at the truck stop.

Someone would have had to been walking along the back of the lot where I was parked and seen my loose Conestoga, then they would go get their own winch bar plus the adapter needed that only a few of the drivers for my own company use.

And they would have to be bold enough to go in the back of some random trailer and fix the problem in the cold while its driver was sleeping.

What am I missing here? What do you guys think? I did not just imagine all this or make any of it up. This has been on my mind all day long now.
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not trying to be a smart $@#, but didn't you notice it was fixed during your pretrip walk around? Just saying.

MACK E-6 · Jan 24, 2020

A Bug said: ↑

For the last three hundred miles I've been trying to figure this out.

My Conestoga had a problem. It would not lock down in the rear, so while driving it would hang loosely and flap in the wind.

The mechanism used a metal bar screwed in that would lock in the place with the use of a winch bar and an oversized allen wrench adapter.

The metal bar was upside down and jammed in place so I planned on using a mallet and some WD-40 later on the fix the problem, but I was in a hurry at the moment and needed to get on the next load so I figured I would just wait until I shut down for the night and work on it at a truck stop.

Thing is that night it was about 18 degrees and snowing so being lazy as I am I just put it off for later and went to sleep.

While driving the next day I noticed my Conestoga was not flapping loosely in the wind. When I got to my receiver to unload a couple aluminum coils I look at the thing and it is fixed. Metal bar is right side up and locked in place.

It is impossible for it to have just bumped into place by the shaking of the trailer. It would require the force of at least 20 lbs on that winch bar to lock it in place while using the adapter key.

I doubt that God miraclously fixed it. His miracles are that of Christ giving sight to the blind and raising the dead, not repairing some lazy tucker's conestoga.

That leaves only the possibility that someone else fixed it while I was at the truck stop.

Someone would have had to been walking along the back of the lot where I was parked and seen my loose Conestoga, then they would go get their own winch bar plus the adapter needed that only a few of the drivers for my own company use.

And they would have to be bold enough to go in the back of some random trailer and fix the problem in the cold while its driver was sleeping.

What am I missing here? What do you guys think? I did not just imagine all this or make any of it up. This has been on my mind all day long now.
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Here’s a theory.

Sounds like you had something bound up. Maybe the cold temperature caused things to contract and free themselves?

A Bug · Jan 24, 2020

dowin3 said: ↑

not trying to be a smart $@#, but didn't you notice it was fixed during your pretrip walk around? Just saying.
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You know I was debating on posting this whole topic or not because I knew the pre-trip question was going to come up. But I had to post it anyway to testify this miracle.

My pre-trip when I wake up consists of walking around and banging the tires with my winch bar. The flap was not flapping because I was parked and would have had to go inside the trailer to actually see that it was fixed.

Like I said before though I'm pretty lazy and while I will check to make sure the chains are tight and secure I'm not going to be climbing all over them coils to get to the back just for a pre-trip.

A Bug · Jan 24, 2020

MACK E-6 said: ↑

Here’s a theory.

Sounds like you had something bound up. Maybe the cold temperature caused things to contract and free themselves?
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No that could not have been it. Wish I had taken a picture of the trailer before dropping it off, would have made the picture more clear.

The only wy for this thing to get fixed would need to be intentionally done.

spindrift · Jan 26, 2020

Here's to hoping this isn't the last time He puts his hand on your shoulder.

FoolsErrand · Jan 28, 2020

Small potatoes for the Lord. It is a message for you to give him the rest of your broken-ness to fix.

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