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In dire need of a Surly trailer to run a couple errands on Friday or Saturday (1-26, 1-27)

Title says it all. I have a Surly Troll with the Surly hitch nuts installed, and a really desperate need to deliver a couple bike frames this weekend. I have a Burley trailer I converted into a long-bed cargo hauler, but there is simply nowhere on the Troll frame for the bracket that mates up to the Burley hitch. Originally I'd planned to fabricate my own Surly trailer hitch knock-off to attach to my converted Burley, I don't have time to mess with that, and I had assumed that there would be some way to fabricate a way of attaching the Burley-type bracket so I could use that type of hitch/trailer to haul stuff while I was messing around trying to fabricate my own Surly hitch yoke type setup. So, is there any bike shop in the area that rents the actual Surly trailer with their proprietary hitch yoke? I know it's kind of unlikely since those don't install nearly as easily as something like a Burley hitch or Bikes-At-Work type of hitch. And before you ask, the reason I can't mount the Burley hitch the normal way is because I have an Alfine hub on my Troll, and the frame is a 2017, which means it's Gnot/Boost so all the shenanigans I had to go through to make an Alfine work means I don't have enough threads left over to safely accommodate sticking the Burley hitch on my axle. So, bikes shops with a Surly trailer or someone local with said trailer who I could pay/give a case of beer to or work out some arrangement to borrow the trailer for half a day. I have some other gas-powered options possibly, but wanted to exhaust my delivery-by-bike options first. 

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