Share Pics of People Hauling or Towing Something Wrong

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[...but none that knew anything.] So, Reddit as usual?
Yep!

It's mostly an interesting window into how some posters think, and vote.

I've never subscribed there. Just cautious, but I wonder about the objectives of the owners, in China. Maybe its just a big data-gathering exercise like TikTok.

When access is free - then your identity is the product, marketed to advertisers.
 
/ Share Pics of People Hauling or Towing Something Wrong #18,585  
I really do not understand the relationship between computer programming and a thread named “share pics of people hauling or towing something wrong”……
Guilty as charged! :D

I commented on fidowanttobe's sig note and it took off from there. Sorry bout that.
 
/ Share Pics of People Hauling or Towing Something Wrong #18,586  
I really do not understand the relationship between computer programming and a thread named “share pics of people hauling or towing something wrong”……
😉
After 10 years of posts there is bound to be some off target movement in a thread. ;)
 
/ Share Pics of People Hauling or Towing Something Wrong #18,589  
Slip sheet forks or roller forks?
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So, Reddit as usual?

Aaron Z
It's not hard to unload as long as you have a dock or a ramp. The dunnage boards are about a quarter of the way from the end. Just put the forks under the end, lift, tilt forward, and push them under the dunnage board. Then tilt back and the forks won't slide out. I pick those up often. And I have unloaded them as well. Long forks will pick them up once they are under as well. I don't pick up full loads just a few bundles as we are an LTL carrier. But they are not hard to move if you can drive the lift onto the trailer.
 
/ Share Pics of People Hauling or Towing Something Wrong #18,590  
We used to load Western Electric crossarms in Consolidated Freightways trucks. The were most often 10' crossarms so they were always lengthways. Used a Hyster 60 to lift them up and a Hyster 225 to push them in. That was back in the 1970s and early 80s.
 
/ Share Pics of People Hauling or Towing Something Wrong #18,591  
Back in the early 1980’s, way before anyone had posted the first video of a vehicle going down a boat ramp into the water, I got to see one of these events, live. Ford Econoline van in red, probably E250, with a typical bay boat, maybe 24 foot inboard/outboard. I was a “boat ramp kid”, always hanging out at the ramp either because that was where our closest playground was located, or maybe dad was launching our boat that day.

In any case, this guy backs his rig down the ramp to retrieve his boat, hops out of the van, and the thing starts to roll down the ramp. Thankfully he still had a hand on the door, felt it start to go, and quickly hopped back into the van and slammed on the brake. Thinking he had resolved whatever went wrong, he hopped out of the van a second time, and this time the whole rig goes down the ramp into the bay.

This was at the Surf City ramp on Long Beach Island, NJ, and any local can tell you that ramp drops off just past the end of the bulkhead. In other words, go just a bit too far and your trailer (or in this case, truck) falls off the end of the ramp. Which is exactly what this entire rig did, effectively shutting down one lane of this two-lane ramp for the day.

The guy was obviously beside himself. I have no idea what he did wrong… twice. Looking back, I wonder if he was under the influence of something.
 
/ Share Pics of People Hauling or Towing Something Wrong #18,592  
The 2-forklift method is a simple way of loading long material in a loading dock or truck. Been doing it for years. If you only have 1 pick up the load in the middle rest on end on truck or loading dock, then stand up a pallet at the other end but leave enough room for forks to get under the load and lower the load on it. Drive to the end pick up the load and slide it in. 🍻
 
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Kind of qualifies as hauling something wrong…….they were doing about 80mph - thought the whole fender would fly off

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Front one looks like it might be loose. Jon
 
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The plastic ones or the wooden ones?
 

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