Share Pics of People Hauling or Towing Something Wrong

[groundcover]

He did stick the landing though!

 

[lilranch2001]

He did stick the landing though!

:thumbsup::thumbsup::laughing:

 

[BigBlue1]

You are assuming he had a brake controller. A lot of idiots running around pulling other peoples trailers with no brakes, even though this trailer had them.

You are correct- stay in gas on tow vehicle, hand brake for the trailer will straighten it right out.

Like other said though, best way is to not CREATE the sway in the first place. TOO LITTLE TONGUE WEIGHT!

I know a guy that has a 25' fiberglass boat that pulls it on a tandem axle trailer. His setup has zero tongue weight. He flips the hitch lever and the tongue springs up off the ball and the trailer balances level. I can't understand how he hasn't crashed yet. I'm guessing it is because it is a tandem axle trailer so it is a bit more stable than a single axle would be set up like that.

Rob

 

[zing]

wonder or fantasize???
:confused3:

I meant me, not you.

 

[lilranch2001]

awww I stuck a nerve.....

:laughing:

 

[California]

Yup, [my SnowBear] has the metal center. We put a piece of plywood over everything so it has a little more protection.

Only problem I have is i can't see see the trailer behind my 3/4t truck.............

I built a little 'jeep trailer' (HF's 40x48") for camping that's near impossible to back. It's so tiny that it can get un-savably sideways before it appears in either mirror.

My 'design goal' was a trailer so small and light that I can turn it around by hand if I get down some impassible side-slope deer trail and need to unhitch it to turn it around separately, in order to get back out. Empty 140 lbs, loaded with camp gear 300 or less, so it's easy to handle unhitched.

 

[ning]

I used to have a small trailer for dump hauling; it was a very old studebaker truck rear end (axle & stepside bed).
I couldn't possibly see it behind the chevy 'burb we had at the time; to back it when dumping or parking I'd stick a shovel into one of the bed pockets and sight off of that. With the small jeep trailers I'd consider something like a bicycle flag - something sticking up into your field of view.

 

[paulfun9]

Correction, apparently the white pickup was not the tow vehicle.


Some more pictures:
Looks like there was a tiller on the 3 point and they really needed to back it on

Aaron Z

The pictures speak a thousand words. My experience with broken axels, shackles, springs, frozen bearings and blown tires tells me one thing. That trailer did not have enough toung whieght! This is not speculation just look close at the pictures and pay close attention to detail and it becomes appearent. The description posted in one of the posts about the trailer swinging solidifies it.

 

[ultrarunner]

I planted three giant sequoias about 10 years ago up here in Washington State and they are growing well. This year I bought 3 more seedlings, I find they are easy to grow here. Maybe in a future life I will be able to come back and see how large they got.

Count me as one who is in awe of those magnificent trees :thumbsup:

Toothpicks smoothpicks, make them out of poplar.

I was thinking of planting a few Aptos Blues down by the stream just where it enters the Sound... in one way I think it would be something for the ages but then there are giant Cedars and very large Doug Firs there already... it was logged at one time and one HUGE Cedar stump has cutouts for the ledger boards and the logs were rolled out and floated away...

 

[ultrarunner]

I built a little 'jeep trailer' (HF's 40x48") for camping that's near impossible to back. It's so tiny that it can get un-savably sideways before it appears in either mirror.

My 'design goal' was a trailer so small and light that I can turn it around by hand if I get down some impassible side-slope deer trail and need to unhitch it to turn it around separately, in order to get back out. Empty 140 lbs, loaded with camp gear 300 or less, so it's easy to handle unhitched.

I only tow the log splitter with the Suzuki Samurai and this is because it is the only vehicle where I can physically see it when towing...

 

[laurencen]

Correction, apparently the white pickup was not the tow vehicle.


Some more pictures:
Looks like there was a tiller on the 3 point and they really needed to back it on.

Aaron Z

trailer looks light for what he is using it for, little travel for suspension

 

[KennyG]

I only tow the log splitter with the Suzuki Samurai and this is because it is the only vehicle where I can physically see it when towing...

Rig up a couple of clamps so you can add a couple of flags or driveway reflectors. Or those magnetic trailer alignment balls.

 

[BigBlue1]

Even my 18' equipment trailer can be difficult to see the corners on when backing behind my Ram 2500. I got a set of snowplow markers to mount on the rear corners. Fixes that issue right up. Nice thing is that they are springy and bendable so when I hit them while loading/unloading something it isn't an issue.

https://www.amazon.com/Blade-Markers-Guides-Western-Snowplows/dp/B0191ZFSHO/ref=sr_1_1

Rob

 

[ultrarunner]

Rig up a couple of clamps so you can add a couple of flags or driveway reflectors. Or those magnetic trailer alignment balls.

My tow vehicle is a full size Chevrolet Van with only the front windows... it would take a lot for the splitter to be visible... even the small box trailer is well hidden...

But the Suzuki works great and zips right along down the highway.

 

[Industrial Toys]

I drove Vans with only front windows in a city environment. Wonder how I ever managed. And never mastered mirrors either. The bosses wanted to save money, but probably lost it in production, as I circled the block until I could find a place to drive straight into. One boss even saved twenty five bucks by not getting a spare tire.

 

[TMGT]

When I pull the splitter I just hope it's still there when I get to my destination and nothing went wrong during the trip........also remember to not back up! I don't go far with it unless it's on another trailer.

Really need to put another backup camera on the truck since my old one died.

 

[zing]

Rig up a couple of clamps so you can add a couple of flags or driveway reflectors. Or those magnetic trailer alignment balls.

Those magnetic trailer alignment things are useful, but they charge you for the gimmick aspect of it. You can get the exact same functionality from a magnetic tool pick-upper, for 3-4 dollars instead of 20-30 dollars, and being telescopic it will fold up smaller and fit into a door pocket. :thumbsup:


2 pc Telescopic Magnetic Pickup Tool | Princess Auto

 

[dragoneggs]

Cheap rear camera set up is an option as well. Safer too if kids are around.

 

[thirdroc17]

Just that it's a shame and crime that all that non replaceable old growth forest was destroyed. For what? Mostly just mindless consumerism and profit.

I agree, 100% We're a wasteful society with little respect for the future.

 

[thirdroc17]

Look at all of the dead redwoods laying on the forest floor that will go to waste......

Those trees going to "waste" are homes to many animals, they decompose into food for the next generation of trees, etc. Nature doesn't waste anything, only man does.