I went to lake Josephine on Saturday morning. Left out about 7:30..got some worms and minnows and just had the trolling motor on the boat to try it out. Friend at work had given it to me ..Old 28 lb thrust moidel. launched boat with no problems. Motor performed very well for being so old. I caught a 3lb bass and a small catfish on minnows. Some small bluegill played around with the worms for an hour or so without really biting until 10:30.Sun just got too hot to keep going so pulled boat in to load it. I go about 10 ft winding around this tree to get to the dock and the trailer starts this violent bumping on the right side. No big roots...what's the problem?? I look and the axle is loose from the spring on that side..completely loose as in flopping around! I had some heavy speaker wire in the truck so wrapped that around and tied it very tightly. I didn't want to go back down 27 so took a backroad that was straight across 27 where Josephine came out..Drove it home at 35 mph all the way and made it to sebring. Sweating bullets the whole time of course. Literally almost as truck has no a/c! So I've ordered new u bolt kits for both sides..this won't happen again. Strange that there were no indications at all of a problem on the way to the dock. But I'm not complaining!