How do you move your ATV??
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GRUMPA
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Talk about an accident waiting for a place to happen.
That's almost like what I saw a coupla years ago. A guy had taken a pickup bedliner and bolted it on top of an old sedan. When I saw it, it was empty, but I can just see him loading an ATV or lumber in it and taking off.
Amazing what people will do.
Ron
Amazing what people will do.
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</font><font color="blue" class="small">( Is that legal??? )</font>
i dont see why it wouldnt be legal as long as it is properly secured, i personaly would have used a few more tie down straps but i dont think theres any law against it, people carry boats on the roof of cars all the time so whats so bad about a atv, as long as it secured and ya dont mind a few scratches in the trunk and roof then it seems fine to me, the atv shouldnt be too heavy for a fullsize car
i dont see why it wouldnt be legal as long as it is properly secured, i personaly would have used a few more tie down straps but i dont think theres any law against it, people carry boats on the roof of cars all the time so whats so bad about a atv, as long as it secured and ya dont mind a few scratches in the trunk and roof then it seems fine to me, the atv shouldnt be too heavy for a fullsize car
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<font color="blue"> as long as it is properly secured </font>
That's the big issue. Last year right before deer season, I just pulled out on the highway one morning. Another guy in a lifted pickup with oversize tires and loud pipes pulled out behind me and began accellerating much faster and passed me. As he passed me I saw that he had a large new deer blind in the back of his truck held by a small diameter rope. I could see it coming so I backed off. Sure enough after he got about 200 yards ahead, probably past 70 already, the rope broke, the blind jumped out and started bouncing down the road and slid off in the ditch. I normally would have stopped to help but I figured this guy wasn't the sharpest tack in the world so I let him deal with it. /forums/images/graemlins/crazy.gif
That's the big issue. Last year right before deer season, I just pulled out on the highway one morning. Another guy in a lifted pickup with oversize tires and loud pipes pulled out behind me and began accellerating much faster and passed me. As he passed me I saw that he had a large new deer blind in the back of his truck held by a small diameter rope. I could see it coming so I backed off. Sure enough after he got about 200 yards ahead, probably past 70 already, the rope broke, the blind jumped out and started bouncing down the road and slid off in the ditch. I normally would have stopped to help but I figured this guy wasn't the sharpest tack in the world so I let him deal with it. /forums/images/graemlins/crazy.gif
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yea scary some of the stuff you see on the highway, my friends always make fun of me for using too many tie downs, i will be tying on lumber with a 2 inch ratchet strap to hold a half dozen two by fours and they will be like "just throw a bunjee cord on it", or somethin like "that doesnt even need to be tied down it aint going no where" but i am a bit paranoid about stuff flying off on the road so i tend to strap or chain it down very tight. thats why i hate pickup beds, no place to secure stuff too, none of the tie downs are heavy enough to hold an object thats as heavy as the truck is rated for, thats why i like the flatbed on my F350, 3 inch channel iron so theres plenty of places to hook chains and straps too
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Mark; I'm moving to your state! Alot of guys your age around here are still trying to be little gangsters. I'm one that reads the bios. /forums/images/graemlins/grin.gif
Seriously tho, we share the same thoughts on hauling loads, that photo really doesn't surprise me, I drive up and down I75 alot!!! /forums/images/graemlins/mad.gif
Seriously tho, we share the same thoughts on hauling loads, that photo really doesn't surprise me, I drive up and down I75 alot!!! /forums/images/graemlins/mad.gif
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theres still plenty of guys my age being "little gangsters" as ya say, far too many lowered civics and that crap around here, just a few days ago i saw some cops busting a bunch of guys with imports lowered to the ground, they would take and roll a tennis ball under the car, if it didnt make it across then the car is considered lower than the legal limit. looked like alot of times the ball didnt make it so im sure they wrote out alot of tickets! of course my F350 you could roll a beach ball under so i dont think i have to worry!!! altho loading stuff into the bed is a bit of a pain when theres no loader or forklift handy, so maybe i should look into one of them snazy lowering kits..... /forums/images/graemlins/grin.gif
</font><font color="blue" class="small">( my friends always make fun of me for using too many tie downs, i will be tying on lumber with a 2 inch ratchet strap to hold a half dozen two by fours)</font>
markct,
I'm with you on this one!!! Haven't lost a load yet /forums/images/graemlins/grin.gif
markct,
I'm with you on this one!!! Haven't lost a load yet /forums/images/graemlins/grin.gif
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yea i gota say that i havent lost a thing yet either, i remember at work when we were moving machinery from one plant to another a while back i was always very carefull about tying down and blocking everything in the truck, my boss sorta had more of the idea that it didnt need much tie downs since it was an enclosed box truck, but the walls on one of those trucks wouldnt stand up very well to a 3000lb machine sliding up against one, im sure it would go right out the side and land in the road, not a chance i would wanna take, just today i saw a quad in the back of a friends pickup, not a single tie down, just had the tailgate closed, well you can bet i wouldnt do that, i dont trust tailgate latches one bit, i have seen them pop open before on trucks new and old, when i load a pickup i dont rely on the tailgate to hold in any more than gas cans and other small light objects, never a atv or riding mower or anything with weight to it
PineRidge
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That's not safe at all! The left rear tire on the car looks just a little low on air to me. As an added safety measure that guy should have first checked the air in all 4 tires before loading up. /forums/images/graemlins/wink.gif
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</font><font color="blue" class="small">( I think that there is a loose nut behind the steering wheel also... /forums/images/graemlins/grin.gif /forums/images/graemlins/grin.gif /forums/images/graemlins/grin.gif )</font>
LOL /forums/images/graemlins/laugh.gif /forums/images/graemlins/laugh.gif /forums/images/graemlins/laugh.gif
LOL /forums/images/graemlins/laugh.gif /forums/images/graemlins/laugh.gif /forums/images/graemlins/laugh.gif
hobbyfarm
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Hey Junkman,
If you lived as close to Mexico as I do, this type of "load on a vehicle not made for the load" is a fairly common thing here.
The other day I saw an old Chevy pickup with a wrecked pickup in the bed, the back end of the wreck was secured to the bed with an extension cord on one side, and one cable of a set of battery cables on the other side. And he apparently had no concern that the whole rear axle tettered haphazardly on one spring shackle and the driveshaft for support. That was hanging several feet from the end of the bed.
The best part's coming.
This old 70's C10 is driving with not a hint of shocks [bounce, bounce]. We stopped at the redlight next to him and his Cantina music played loud as him and his buddy popped open a beer as they were stopped.
You could bet money that this person had no insurance!
Sorry for the epic novel, but stuff like this is fairly common here in South Texas.
phil
If you lived as close to Mexico as I do, this type of "load on a vehicle not made for the load" is a fairly common thing here.
The other day I saw an old Chevy pickup with a wrecked pickup in the bed, the back end of the wreck was secured to the bed with an extension cord on one side, and one cable of a set of battery cables on the other side. And he apparently had no concern that the whole rear axle tettered haphazardly on one spring shackle and the driveshaft for support. That was hanging several feet from the end of the bed.
The best part's coming.
This old 70's C10 is driving with not a hint of shocks [bounce, bounce]. We stopped at the redlight next to him and his Cantina music played loud as him and his buddy popped open a beer as they were stopped.
You could bet money that this person had no insurance!
Sorry for the epic novel, but stuff like this is fairly common here in South Texas.
phil
Phred
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I am just supprised that he does not have some guy tail gating him by about half a car length..... /forums/images/graemlins/shocked.gif
It never ceases to amaze me how people will tail gate heavy loads or unsafe loads.
I can be pulling my baler or a load of lime or fert. and some guy in a small car will pull up right on my bumper. Now my load is always safe, unlike the above, but
A) He is hardly going to scare me into speeding up when my combined weight is ~15K and his honda weights what 3K?
B) Hitches break. Blow outs happen. So in the rare event that something goes wrong we will be pealing what is left of that honda and driver off the back of my trailer and I might end up with a dented trailer.....
go figure..... /forums/images/graemlins/confused.gif
Fred
It never ceases to amaze me how people will tail gate heavy loads or unsafe loads.
I can be pulling my baler or a load of lime or fert. and some guy in a small car will pull up right on my bumper. Now my load is always safe, unlike the above, but
A) He is hardly going to scare me into speeding up when my combined weight is ~15K and his honda weights what 3K?
B) Hitches break. Blow outs happen. So in the rare event that something goes wrong we will be pealing what is left of that honda and driver off the back of my trailer and I might end up with a dented trailer.....
go figure..... /forums/images/graemlins/confused.gif
Fred
