Share Pics of People Hauling or Towing Something Wrong
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groundcover
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It's a rental, don't be gentle !
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I'll bet he didn't tell U-Haul what he intended to use that rental for!
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u-h: "what are you going to use the flatbed for?"
renter: "f-250 single cab"
u-h "hmm.... *assumes short wb* ok that'll just fit *i'm not paid to gaf*"
state trooper looks interested, glad to see that
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Some of us have towed overweight - but not like that!
My only experience with a U-haul car carrier: Neighborhood dealer wouldn't rent one to me, he said they have to see six-lug wheels on the tow vehicle.
Across town there was a larger U-haul dealer. They quizzed me what I was going to tow since their trailer bare, was nearly at my early Trooper's 2,000 lb rated tow capacity. I told them a small garden tractor. Ok.
I loaded my first Yanmar, the YM240 shown in my sig below. And tried a brake check. Fine, that smoked the trailer tires before the Trooper's. Ok. A few miles down the road I realized I could detour to Port of Sacramento to use their truck scale. 8,500 lbs!! Either U-haul's trailer or the Yanmar was a ton over what I expected. The Yanmar's rated weight is 1,800 lbs plus the unknown weight of its loader, the Trooper alone only weighed 3,500, so I was pulling 2.5 tons.
That was a very slow cautious tow to get the trailer 100 miles to the ranch. No issues, aside from way under-powered on a few grades. I wouldn't do it again. That Trooper was great but this was asking too much of it.
My only experience with a U-haul car carrier: Neighborhood dealer wouldn't rent one to me, he said they have to see six-lug wheels on the tow vehicle.
Across town there was a larger U-haul dealer. They quizzed me what I was going to tow since their trailer bare, was nearly at my early Trooper's 2,000 lb rated tow capacity. I told them a small garden tractor. Ok.
I loaded my first Yanmar, the YM240 shown in my sig below. And tried a brake check. Fine, that smoked the trailer tires before the Trooper's. Ok. A few miles down the road I realized I could detour to Port of Sacramento to use their truck scale. 8,500 lbs!! Either U-haul's trailer or the Yanmar was a ton over what I expected. The Yanmar's rated weight is 1,800 lbs plus the unknown weight of its loader, the Trooper alone only weighed 3,500, so I was pulling 2.5 tons.
That was a very slow cautious tow to get the trailer 100 miles to the ranch. No issues, aside from way under-powered on a few grades. I wouldn't do it again. That Trooper was great but this was asking too much of it.
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Too many Kubotas
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Speaking od running over stuff, in that same little MGB I wondered about hitting a moose with I ran over a badger. Could feel and hear it getting rolled under the floorboards.
More exciting was getting a snake caught in the spokes of the front wheel of my first bike. It went around and around several times before exiting close enough to my head that I could feel it.
Thankful that it didn't end up across my neck instead, even though it was only mildly poisonous as I'm sure it was pissed by then.
More exciting was getting a snake caught in the spokes of the front wheel of my first bike. It went around and around several times before exiting close enough to my head that I could feel it.
Thankful that it didn't end up across my neck instead, even though it was only mildly poisonous as I'm sure it was pissed by then.
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The size of the deer really depends on where you are in the US.
Most everywhere in the states they are decent sized.
Deer in Florida are smaller than my German shepherd
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They throw a fit if your renting a trailer to haul any more than a small car on it.
Knew a guy who pretty much got tossed out of a uhaul place when he informed them he was gonna use the trailer to haul his tractor into the dealers for some repairs.
