Share Pics of People Hauling or Towing Something Wrong

[Degolyerent]

This photo was on Facebook, it was taken near Ocala FL. , it said the truck was traveling about 50 mph.

 

[mikehaugen]

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This photo was on Facebook, it was taken near Ocala FL. , it said the truck was traveling about 50 mph.

I know it's wrong, but I couldn't help but laugh about that.

 

[kf4uda]

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This photo was on Facebook, it was taken near Ocala FL. , it said the truck was traveling about 50 mph.

So, you guys are thinking he needs a larger rope...or what?

 

[Bigfoot62]

I'm not sure about it being "wrong" to haul a horse in the back of a pickup.
If it's wrong, then we were wrong a bunch. When I was a kid, (long time ago) we didn't have stock trailers and we hauled animals in the back of the truck often.
30 years ago, the game wardens in Wyoming all carried a horse in their pickup. May still do that.

 

[chad22]

https://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=player_embedded&v=D8eVsmt6R5w

Now that looks like fun. I'd love to be the one in the excavator pushing the truck. lol

But one safety issue I see there is that the excavator could smash a car if it got to close.

Chad

 

[bcp]

I've seen lots of livestock and horses hauled in pickups, but can't remember seeing any that didn't have cab height or higher sides and ends added.

Bruce

 

[chad22]

I just remembered something. I was 13 at the time "26 now" anyway I went a yard sale out in a rural part of Arkansas about a mile from home.

I rode my bicycle out there about a mile. At the yard sale there was a Tow behind spreader like the one in the link EarthWay Tow Spreader — 80-Lb. Capacity, Model# 2050T | Lawn Spreaders| Northern Tool + Equipment

The guy wanted $5.00 for it. So I bought it even though I really had no use for it at the time. The guy said I could come back later and get it with a vehicle if I needed too.

I said no I have a hitch on my bicycle and I'll just tow it home. lol I had an old atv hitch mounted to the bicycle. I used to pull a little lawn/garden trailer around with the bicycle picking up cans.

So he hitched up the spreader to my bicycle hitch and I pulled it down the road the 1 mile back home. People were giving me weird looks all the way home and even offered to give me a ride back home so I wouldn't have to pull the down the road. I told them no thanks I'll make it home and I did.

I still have the spreader today and I never once used it. I think I bought it just so I could have something else to tow behind my bicycle. I always loved towing things.

Chad

 

[Degolyerent]

I've seen lots of livestock and horses hauled in pickups, but can't remember seeing any that didn't have cab height or higher sides and ends added.

Bruce

That is the way I have seen it done also not in an open bed.

 

[sklunk]

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This photo was on Facebook, it was taken near Ocala FL. , it said the truck was traveling about 50 mph.

I always knew Chevy trucks had extra horsepower

 

[kf4uda]

When I was growing up lots of folks around had cattle racks for their trucks including us. Some were made from pipe and some were wooden. Ours were wooden similar to these: http://bioengr.ag.utk.edu/extension/extpubs/Plans/6192.pdf


Later on we got a livestock trailer and the racks were scrapped.