I recently heard about someone who turned up at a farmer's field with a trailer to retrieve a glider and on opening it up found it already filled with a nice three piece suite.
LOL - one of those 'Oh Bu66er' moments
I would imagine there are many 'trailer tales' around
Through luck
or skill
- I did not land out that often - although I did a fair few retrieves for other people
I always used to fight hard to get home - one good piece of advice I was given by an experienced x country pilot was - 'never give up' (within safety considerations natch).
One trailer we did end up with was a huge affair with massive tractor wheels/tyres and which was a bitch to tow (good job syndicate partner had a 5hitroen BX
)
This trailer contained a Slingsby T53 (YS53) which we bought without a test flight off an oldish chap (what could possibly go wrong
)
But actually she was a really nice glider to fly - with a huge canopy and proper man sized stick
