Keeping the rain out

We still don’t have our own trailer for the Argo which is why The Forester was keen to get it serviced and in good nick before taking it up to the forest about 15 miles away. He didn’t want to have to keep bringing it back home to fix things.

Fortunately our neighbour has an excellent trailer which he is happy to lend us, and it’s great to be able to use that until we find one of our own. The other issue is at the moment we don’t have any undercover storage for the vehicle up at the woodland so we needed to get some sort of cover.

After various ideas, we bought a “small car cover” for £20. This looked OK apart from the fact that the box says it isn’t waterproof, which rather defeats the object. However, this does seem to be an overly defensive statement as maybe you couldn’t carry water in it, but it does seem to provide plenty of protection. To be on the safe side, we’re putting a plastic tarpaulin underneath it.



Within 24 hours of taking the Argo and its cover up to the wood, we had some heavy snowfall followed by several days of rain. The cover is in fact a bit too large and so was liable to sag and pond. Two strategies to solve this: a couple of tucks in it using cable ties to make it fit better, plus a patent hoop construction - two bits of wood and two bits of plastic piping - provide a frame to sit in the back and raise the cover so water won’t collect in.


Plans are in place to build a shed for it but this is working for now.