buckeyefarmer
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Share Pics of People Hauling or Towing Something Wrong
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Creamer
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You do? And you say you are from Tennessee?
4570Man
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I’ve seen some crazy stuff and I’ve done some crazy stuff but I’ve never seen anyone drag a shed down the road. Dragging a non running vehicle on a chain is pretty common.
square1
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Drug an 8 x 12 gambrel roof yard shed by a chaing 3/4 ~ 1mile down a pretty busy (had industrial parks at each end) city street behind my 9N Ford.
The trick was swinging it wide to square it up to hop the curb at its final destination.
Had no idea who or what, other than the shed was behind me the entire trip.
The trick was swinging it wide to square it up to hop the curb at its final destination.
Had no idea who or what, other than the shed was behind me the entire trip.
A couple of friends dragged a pickup 15 miles to the garage after the fuel pump quit. (Not good for the AT) The mechanics lifted the bed and put in the new pump but the engine still wouldn't start.
The truck was simply out of gas.
Creamer
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I used to drag an old 10 x 12 3-sided shed out my driveway and to the church across the street every year for the nativity scene. I put 4 x 4s underneath and then took them out when I got to the destination so nobody would trip on them. It was about 1/2 mile pull one way. Then one year this idiot decides to pull it home for me with his truck and hooks onto the enclosed end and drug it home. That was then of that shed.
BKBoiss
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Ahaha. Reminds me of my brother getting annoyed with that stupid new electric grease gun... he forgot to pull the metal end out of the new tube.
ouch! Just like putting a saw chain on backwards, that's the kind of mistake that you only make once!
cqaigy2
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Once? Speak for yourself. :laughing:
Same here...at least twice. It does take practice to get it right!
DieselBound
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Isn't it that the third time is the charm?
By the third try, I have completely forgotten about the first two but something seems strangely familiar...
DieselBound
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That's hysterical!
goeduck
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Then why did they put in a new fuel pump rather than check the fuel? :whistleblower:
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tjkubota93
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As a mechanic if you say: my truck wont run- I would figure out why and provide an estimate to repair. If you say: I want my fuel pump changed- I would provide an estimate.
DavesTractor
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If you have been watching the news, we have a huge fire going north of us in Redding, CA. The Carr fire, so named as it started near the Carr Powerhouse next to Whiskeytown Lake. Apparently started by a tire that failed on a travel trailer, allowing the rim to contact the pavement and spark. Over 110,000 acres, 6 lives lost so far, over 1000 homes destroyed, 38,000 evacuated at it's peak. It is now 35% contained and it looks like they are getting a handle on it.
Most of us if we have hauled a trailer much have had a flat or a blowout. It happens. They showed a picture of the travel trailer and it was a modern trailer that looked just fine. Not an old beater with worn out tires. It happened during a week of 110* plus temps and things just blew up.
This thread is about towing or hauling something wrong, but I'm not sure if the guy pulling the trailer really did anything wrong. Tires fail, you pull over and change them. That is normal enough. I'm sure they will look at the age of the tires, last time pressures were checked and so forth. It is a good reminder, especially if you live in the fire prone west, to pay attention to tire pressures and conditions. Having said that, he might have ran over a nail left in the road a mile prior...through no fault of his own. Probably best not to try to slice and dice liabilities and "what ifs", but it is interesting how such a devastating fire could be started by just towing a trailer down the road.
If you believe in prayer, as I do, then please keep the folks devastated by this fire in your prayers.
Most of us if we have hauled a trailer much have had a flat or a blowout. It happens. They showed a picture of the travel trailer and it was a modern trailer that looked just fine. Not an old beater with worn out tires. It happened during a week of 110* plus temps and things just blew up.
This thread is about towing or hauling something wrong, but I'm not sure if the guy pulling the trailer really did anything wrong. Tires fail, you pull over and change them. That is normal enough. I'm sure they will look at the age of the tires, last time pressures were checked and so forth. It is a good reminder, especially if you live in the fire prone west, to pay attention to tire pressures and conditions. Having said that, he might have ran over a nail left in the road a mile prior...through no fault of his own. Probably best not to try to slice and dice liabilities and "what ifs", but it is interesting how such a devastating fire could be started by just towing a trailer down the road.
If you believe in prayer, as I do, then please keep the folks devastated by this fire in your prayers.
