Share Pics of People Hauling or Towing Something Wrong

[sea2summit]

 

[fidowanttobe]

OOF! I think that would be a female dog to back up!!

 

[deezler]

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Wow, that's pretty special right there. Those vintage small 5th wheels are funny.

 

[BigBlue1]

Thumbs up for innovation!

 

[Xfaxman]

There are commercial versions:

 

[sea2summit]

There are commercial versions:
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So the excursion may make sense but the only reason to do it on a truck would be too much tongue weight? By adding weight (dolly) is there any possible way the trailer stays within safe maximum to weight? Also can't imagine what now happens with a failure of a tire on the dolly. Seems like a super bad idea.

 

[Fallon]

Wow, that's pretty special right there. Those vintage small 5th wheels are funny.

From the half you can see I'm guessing it's only 20-25' long. A modern one that size wouldn't top 8k lbs, easily half ton towable. Might have payload issues, but not horrible. Probably a bit much for any SUV short of an Excursion or Suburban.

Curious how well that or the commercial versions tow when properly setup. Obviously backing up sucks, but you can often minimize that with some planning.

 

[JPRambo]

Isn't the red tow dolly/pick up bed being towed backwards?

 

[Xfaxman]

Isn't the red tow dolly/pick up bed being towed backwards?

No, short beds are longer behind the axle:

 

[aczlan]

So the excursion may make sense but the only reason to do it on a truck would be too much tongue weight? By adding weight (dolly) is there any possible way the trailer stays within safe maximum to weight? Also can't imagine what now happens with a failure of a tire on the dolly. Seems like a super bad idea.

Could also be so that you can tow a fifth wheel behind a pickup truck that has a camper in the bed.

Aaron Z

 

[Midniteoyl]

I dont know the story behind this, but can guess what the convo was..

 

[duramaxsky]

I dont know the story behind this, but can guess what the convo was..

Being it was video I wonder if it was intentional. Or just a moron on the fork lift.

 

[deezler]

Looks like the truck owner filming, given how close to the truck they are. I'm guessing they and forklift driver devised this plan to avoid dealing with the tailgate (stuck?) and or to avoid hand loading anything. Quite idiotic, though.

 

[RobS]

"Mulch is light, just drop it right in!"

 

[sea2summit]

"Ohh yeah, I've done this lots of times."

 

[goeduck]

Lift driver tilted the forks as he stopped which made the load topple better. Intentional.

 

[sea2summit]

Cousin?

 

[Midniteoyl]

Looks like the truck owner filming, given how close to the truck they are. I'm guessing they and forklift driver devised this plan to avoid dealing with the tailgate (stuck?) and or to avoid hand loading anything. Quite idiotic, though.

This was my thinking as well. The convo afterwards probably wasn't very pleasant though.

 

[ning]

My guess is he didn't want it stacked vertical because of height vs turns / toppling forces, so he actually wanted it on its side as the height of the load wasn't much less than the length of the trailer. Also, even loading from the back without that lawnmower ramp I don't think they could get the pallet far enough forwards to keep the trailer from wagging.

Looks like 16 layers of 5 bags each, I think those are 2 cubic foot bags... so about, 35-40 pounds per bag = 2800-3200 pounds

I think that's a 3500 gvwr trailer at max, so that load even gingerly placed precisely would've probably been close to overloading it.

Instead, they dropped it from about 8+' up (looking at the middle of the stack); breaking out my ancient (and very likely faulty) knowledge of physics and crusty math, I think that drop is equivalent to about a 7500 pound static load.

 

[3 Horse Ranch]

That looks really top heavy.

But all Ford trucks are top heavy. The owners all have big heads.

It looks more like a Ram on the tailgate, not the Ford badge.