What the....wide load

/ What the....wide load #62  
Couple of winters back, light fluffy snow on the road, I skidded when I tapped the brakes.
The reason was that under that snow was a 4 x 8 sheet of aromatic cedar closet liner.
As I drove on I found 7 more sheets, all undamaged.

My wife really likes that closet!

With our rough roads the lumber yard kept loosing his load one sheet at a time!
 
/ What the....wide load #63  
The worst I ever encountered was a guy in an F250 pulling 2 loaded hay wagons through downtown on a 400 series hwy at rush hour.... :confused2:

I guess the slow moving placard fixes everything....

He had some balls that boy.
 
/ What the....wide load #65  
Around here you see that everyday. What causes me to look is when the steel scrap guys go by. There is a van around that they fill with scrap and I have seen a few fridges and stoves strapped on top. It looks like it works but it seems like it would be a little top heavy. Trucks will also be stacked to easily twice the hight of the truck and sometimes it looks like it might be a problem going under some of the low railroad bridges around here.
It gets crazy around here.:laughing::laughing:

There's a vehicle I see every so often around here hauling scrap metal. It's the front half of an old Chrysler minivan, cut off right behind the seats. It looks permanently attached to a 16 or 18 foot tandem axle trailer with no tongue. I don't know exactly how to describe it. I may have a picture or two around here somewhere I'll try to find.
 
/ What the....wide load
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There is a huge scrap yard a couple of miles from me...it is unbelievable the amount of crap I've seen on the roads around it...all sorts of miscellaneous car parts fall off trucks going there. I really have to watch out to not ruin a tire in the area..
 
/ What the....wide load #67  
There's a vehicle I see every so often around here hauling scrap metal. It's the front half of an old Chrysler minivan, cut off right behind the seats. It looks permanently attached to a 16 or 18 foot tandem axle trailer with no tongue. I don't know exactly how to describe it. I may have a picture or two around here somewhere I'll try to find.

Matter of fact, now that you mention it, I seem to recall seeing one somewhere. I think it was yellow. I can't quite remember where I was but I think it would be a little strange to drive.
 
/ What the....wide load #68  
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/ What the....wide load #71  
In the redneck truckers column, I saw one tonight.

It was a 92-97 body style Ford F-350 flatbed. He had an engine hoist strapped down on the back of the bed, and the engine hoist was holding the rear of an S-10 sized pickup truck off the ground as he towed it. The towed pickup looked like it was only attached by the engine hoist. :eek:
 
/ What the....wide load #72  
In the redneck truckers column, I saw one tonight.

It was a 92-97 body style Ford F-350 flatbed. He had an engine hoist strapped down on the back of the bed, and the engine hoist was holding the rear of an S-10 sized pickup truck off the ground as he towed it. The towed pickup looked like it was only attached by the engine hoist. :eek:

I love it... Redneck Wrecker. We used a Back Hoe like that once to tow my S-10 Blazer off the road when the transfer case let go and busted the rear drive shaft in half and nearly ripped the T-case from the mounts. We only pulled it 100 yards at most at 3 mph, nothing like the Rednecks you saw.

Chris
 
/ What the....wide load #75  
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saw this awesomeness on a fairly busy road. "tow truck" appeared to have a reg and plates(!). the hoist was one of harbor freight's finest
 
/ What the....wide load #76  
Thats what they call Gitt'n-R-Done around here.:laughing:

Chris
 
/ What the....wide load #77  
Wouldn't you love to see how the trip went? Good chance he ended up doin' some unintended off roadin' somewhere. Check the 'hills' in the background. Howja like to meet this rig on a two-lane road... coming down the mountain in your direction?

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She's hitched up and ready to roll! Amazin' how the extra weight smoothes out the ride.
Needed to air up the rear tires a bit ('bout 160 psi).

TailgateTop.jpg


Added some super heavy-duty chain for extra support on the tailgate, (note the 'Heavy-Duty 'S' hooks
to attach the chain). Also paid-up for some BIG Number 5/16 sheet metal screws to attach the Reese
hitch frame to the tailgate (see 'em there? one on each side). Likely two more through the carpet into
the floor pan inside.
Yep, probably overkill, but didn't want the possibility of having an axerdent.

TailgateBottom.jpg


Most of the time was spent on the front porch whittling down that MASSIVE solid pine 4x4 to fit precisely down into the hole in the ball mount receiver.
Note also - The 14'x14' piece of 3/8' plywood on the underside of the tailgate to distribute the load more evenly and beef up that tailgate support.
 
/ What the....wide load #78  
Wouldn't you love to see how the trip went? Good chance he ended up doin' some unintended off roadin' somewhere. Check the 'hills' in the background. Howja like to meet this rig on a two-lane road... coming down the mountain in your direction?

Overall.jpg



She's hitched up and ready to roll! Amazin' how the extra weight smoothes out the ride.
Needed to air up the rear tires a bit ('bout 160 psi).

TailgateTop.jpg


Added some super heavy-duty chain for extra support on the tailgate, (note the 'Heavy-Duty 'S' hooks
to attach the chain). Also paid-up for some BIG Number 5/16 sheet metal screws to attach the Reese
hitch frame to the tailgate (see 'em there? one on each side). Likely two more through the carpet into
the floor pan inside.
Yep, probably overkill, but didn't want the possibility of having an axerdent.

TailgateBottom.jpg


Most of the time was spent on the front porch whittling down that MASSIVE solid pine 4x4 to fit precisely down into the hole in the ball mount receiver.
Note also - The 14'x14' piece of 3/8' plywood on the underside of the tailgate to distribute the load more evenly and beef up that tailgate support.

I wonder how many times I've seen this on here before...:confused2:
 

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