Return of the FAT BOB Trailer!...

Friday is usually a day at the beach cycling , weather permitting now as we get into the winter months.  Today I was  back out with the FAT BOB trailer!, its been a while since I used the trailer as no longer need to haul firewood home for a stove now and just used it a few times to haul wood off the coast for the garden burner, but it is a fun thing to use and a cool accessory for a Surly Pugsley...

Simply this is an older generation Beast Of Burden (BOB) YAK trailer that I have the wheel mounts off and had welder an inch wider each side to allow a 4" tyre Kite Buggy wheel to fit. That wheel has sealed bearings with 20mm internal diameter  which I then used Hope Components 20mm to 6mm QR convertors to secure and job done...

A 29er yolk was bought as standard this was 26" wheel yolk from back in the day...

Spacers provided on the 135mm QR BOB axle were swapped around for the 17mm offset of the Surly Pugsley and all sorted and it has seen loads of days out hauling several tons of logs off the coast previously for my old house that had a stove, now it just sees a yearly outing for garden fire box wood...

Today it was back out to transport a Bendy Bucket and Army Shovel to go clear a WW2 Machine gun pill box.  The Book below is a must have for anyone with an interest in finding and exploring coastal defences of WW2 that were built in 1940 when  Btirain looked like it would be invaded after the fall of Europe to the German War Machine...

It is a fascinating read full of information and a real eye opener to what efforts were actually done to defend this Island Nation...

Out in JMCP is a spite of land that was a tidal island in 1940 and in it is a machine gun pill box most visitors are unaware of... it is now on a spit of land which was an island in 1940 and locally known as Duck Island...

To find this pill box you must first find the Wreck of a Matilda Tank - reportable one of 3 parked here to uses for live fire practice possibly post WW2, and scrapped after  little remains...

Anyway look NW from the wreck into the dunes and a path on a NE direction will within 50 yards take you to the pill box...

Turned out to not need to much digging out for interested folks to access and after 6 bucket loads and the two gun slits dug out from outside the light inside it was better...

Wee film, song is `The Black Mill Video Tape` by Aye Corner Audio

More soon...