I can top that story - when I was a kid we lived in a house with a driveway about 30 feet long at what looked like a 45 degree angle along the side of the house. At the top of the driveway it was not uncommon to scrape the bottom of your car. One day my Dad pulled the boat out of the garage at the bottom of the drive, pulled up to the top and had the trailer hitch hit the top of the driveway and unhitch. The safety chains broke and a 17 foot boat went flying down the driveway and slammed into the side of the house. We couldn't decide which would have been worse, the boat going through the garage at the bottom of the hill or the damage it did to the house. -----Original Message----- From: IDCLLC@aol.com Sent: Oct 25, 2005 6:40 AM To: montgomery_boats@mailman.xmission.com Subject: Re: M_Boats: Trailering Terror I'm curious: Do you all use grease or anti-seize on the wheel studs, or leave them dry? I typically lub mine, but I often wonder which condition would best encourage the lug nuts to stay put. Steve Tyree P-15 In a message dated 10/23/2005 12:08:14 PM Central Standard Time, barbaram@csufresno.edu writes: had the same problem last spring when I was getting my trailer ready to go. As I pulled in to address the problem the wheel fell off. I recommend that if anyone ever runs into this, try to pull off straight ahead and not making a turn! I, too, now check the lug nuts before I move the trailer. Luckily I was only on city streets going 30 mph when it happened. Slower than that when the wheel actually fell off. If I'd been smart I'd have purchased an extra set of lug nuts when I bought the replacement ones. Bobbie _______________________________________________ http://mailman.xmission.com/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/montgomery_boats