Share Pics of People Hauling or Towing Something Wrong

[buckeyefarmer]

Doesn't even need a flag now.

I have hauled a lot of lumber that way.

 

[buckeyefarmer]

Saw guy hauling a fridge yesterday in back of pickup held only by 2 of the rubber stretch cords. I got away from him fast.

 

[duramaxsky]

Can you make it out with the convertible on real long ramps and clear the garage door? LOL Jon

No it won't work

 

[duramaxsky]

The median price of a home in California is nearly $550k, so that gives us a lot of wiggle room using your framework. My thing on play cars is that you need to be able to write a check for them and not have it put you in a financial bind. I buy them used, drive them for a year or two and sell them for about what I paid for them. We ate rice and beans for years to have no debt and to save a little money, and it was worth it. We each have our hobbies, and I bet I have spent less on mine than the average guy that golfs regularly.

This. They drop in price fast in the first few years. Then very slowly. And I agree if you can't pay for one you don't need it.

 

[civilian]

No it won't work

Are you able to walk under your lift? At times I would like one to raise a little fishing boat up so I could put another trailer under it. Jon

 

[duramaxsky]

Are you able to walk under your lift? At times I would like one to raise a little fishing boat up so I could put another trailer under it. Jon

With a car on it yes. You need to duck under the ramps. With my truck on it I can move around under it on a mechanic's chair. But my garage has a 10' ceiling. It is not high enough to get the truck under it with a car on it. The hoist would go a lot higher with a higher ceiling.

 

[California]

Wish I had taken a photo, and I haven't found one online:

CA hwy 37 is a shortcut from I-80 over to US-101, 20 miles north of San Francisco. It crosses a marsh so its on a levee.

Three weeks ago driving from home to ranch we saw a huge mobile home or mobile office tipped over and halfway down the bank. It has no hitch in front beyond the structural triangle.

Oops. Looks like it ran wild and tumbled off the road.

Yesterday - three weeks later - its still there. I'm surprised the highway department or the nature preserve it fell into haven't forced a cleanup.

 

[Jstpssng]

^^^^^
Was it windy that day? I've seen mobiles tipped over from the wind while they are in transit. That stretch of the interstate crosses a big bog, and there's nothing to cut the wind.

 

[Redlands Okie]

They will have to do multiple studies to figure out how to remove that office container without damaging any more of that wildlife and nature filled flooded area. Then those studies will be reviewed, questions raised and more research needed. Then why will call some flatbed wrecker out to winch it up, yard rake around the area and haul it off.

 

[lilranch2001]

I will never forget my first trip to Cali 7-8 years ago was in that general area, Eastbay, north of Oakland, and I was totally taken off guard.

As I was driving East towards Antioch, I had never seen so much debris on the ground. I have traveled a lot through out the rest of the country for work, and what I saw that day was the worst I had ever seen anywhere.

Honestly, my subsequent visits were not nearly as bad, so maybe I caught it at its very worst, but there still was a lot of trash and I always thought of Cali as this pristine state......

I especially noticed abandoned mattresses , everywhere, especially on the sides of the highways and major thoroughfares.

 

[California]

^^^^^
Was it windy that day? I've seen mobiles tipped over from the wind while they are in transit. That stretch of the interstate crosses a big bog, and there's nothing to cut the wind.

This is approximately where it went over. I don't recall any strong winds for months, nothing like they have in open priarie etc. But its possible. My theory with no hitch remaining, is the hitch wasn't welded on securely. The front structure, triangle, isn't twisted like a rollover would cause.

Not interstate, Route 37 just a low volume two lane highway. Incidentally my wife arranged the funding paperwork to build that center wall, after several horrible crashes raised the priority. The route had been one of the most deadly stretches in the state for headon crashes and no escape shoulder. When I was a little kid, believe it or not this was striped as three lanes with the center lane for headon passing.

This is approximately where the trailer went over. And there are often fresh skidmarks like the second picture. Hopefully that was a crash averted.

 

[California]

I will never forget my first trip to Cali 7-8 years ago was in that general area, Eastbay, north of Oakland, and I was totally taken off guard.

As I was driving East towards Antioch, I had never seen so much debris on the ground. I have traveled a lot through out the rest of the country for work, and what I saw that day was the worst I had ever seen anywhere.

Honestly, my subsequent visits were not nearly as bad, so maybe I caught it at its very worst, but there still was a lot of trash and I always thought of Cali as this pristine state......

Strange, that's not the normal situation. At least on the State-owned routes the maintenance crews do cleanup perhaps weekly. There have been a few times when they were on strike, or were sent elsewhere for mudsides, fire, higher priority emergencies, and the difference is soon noticeable. Generally you will see cleanup crews during any long trip.

Sometimes they are State maintenance staff supervising idiots, who are working off their DUI's or littering citations - and gaining an appreciation for the risk from cars zooming by, too close, maybe with drunk operators.

 

[ultrarunner]

State does a pretty good job on freeways...

Some cities have chronic dumping problems and often those caught do not live where they dump.

A stretch on railroad frontage is always bad...

 

[WVBill]

I will never forget my first trip to Cali 7-8 years ago was in that general area, Eastbay, north of Oakland, and I was totally taken off guard.
..........

I especially noticed abandoned mattresses , everywhere, especially on the sides of the highways and major thoroughfares.

Up here in Washington, at least in the Seattle area, that'd be where the homeless sleep....

 

[duramaxsky]

I got this one last Saturday. I kept my old Duramax 2500HD for the heavy stuff. But its getting a little old for a daily and vacations. This one should handle my travel trailer. I will find out next month. Due to the smoke and predicted rain that will make a acidic mess it will sit in my garage for a while. I am going to get a clear bra and the ceramic coat it before I start using it. But it's a lot nicer with a lot more goodies on it. The good thing is they just got it and put it on the lot that morning. So it only had 4 miles on it when I test drove it. It hasn't been test driven or had a bunch of lookers climbing in and out of it.

 

[ptsg]

Not necessarily towing something wrong, but I still think it might fit in here. I don't see any chains tho.

 

[aczlan]

Not necessarily towing something wrong, but I still think it might fit in here. I don't see any chains tho.

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Hopefully he has some good brakes, probably also very slow going up a hill with just one horsepower

Aaron Z

 

[civilian]

Not necessarily towing something wrong, but I still think it might fit in here. I don't see any chains tho.

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The two extra guys in back for getting it rolling? Jon

 

[cqaigy2]

The two extra guys in back for getting it rolling? Jon

Too much tongue weight.

 

[Industrial Toys]

Guy next door comes to feed his cattle. Pulls a little trailer five miles or so with an old SUV. No lights, no safety chain. Put a round bale too far back on the trailer and hitch simply lifted off ball. Moved bale ahead and simply put hitch back on ball. He says the weight will keep it there.

Scary that there are people out there like that.