Share Pics of People Hauling or Towing Something Wrong

[Diggin It]

Pretty sure that's a repost.

 

[duramaxsky]

Pretty sure that's a repost.

Yeah at least once.

 

[deezler]

Man, this takes the cake...towing a long singlewide trailer with a pickup on small country roads....around corners??????!!!!!!!!!!! PS...warning....smoking trucks, tempers, and broken drive shafts will be seen.

These pickups towing a single wide is the wildest thing you'll see on the internet today

This one is really sticking with me. Northeast Oklahoma kind of seems.... like a place I'll never visit, lol. Comments say that they got the move completed after all, and immediately started moving in (without fixing the drooping end of the trailer). W. T. F.

 

[BrokenTrack]

I guess I am missing the significance of this. I think there are many of us that have moved a house-trailer down the road at least once. Okay, so it was with a Ford 600 truck and not a pick-up, but those trailers are not that heavy.

Another time, it was about 20 below one morning and one of the pulp trucks gelled up, so we got a ride back to the house and picked up one of those Dodge Ram's that they used to make. It had a V-10 in it, which was a new truck at the time. We chained that pick-up to the pulp truck and hauled it back to the shop to thaw out. We got some funny looks, but it worked.

 

[BrokenTrack]

One of the funniest towing issues we had was when a 350 John Deere crawler needed a valve job pretty bad. My neighbor was a mechanic, so we hooked the skidder onto the bulldozer and started down the road. The skidder...with full double-diamond ice diggers on it, was going forward, while I was being towed backwards on the tracked bulldozer, and yes this was a paved highway...

Slightly illegal...

About halfway down the hill, here comes a school bus about to pick up my sisters. So my Grandfather piles on the brakes on the skidder, and I haul back on the steering levers on the bulldozer.

We got it stopped in time, but let me ask you this? When was the last time you got hauled backwards, down over a steep hill, on a paved road, getting pulled by a skidder backwards, and had to stop for a school bus?

My grandfather and I could get into some messes. More than once we had the police called on us, but you have to know my Grandfather, the law only applies to other people. But man guys like him built America.

 

[LouNY]

We have moved more then one with farm tractors and set many over the years with a tractor as the trucks couldn't get them into place.
The only really bad thing is getting them turned with out the tires hitting the tongue or the front corners.

 

[Reb954]

I guess I am missing the significance of this. I think there are many of us that have moved a house-trailer down the road at least once. Okay, so it was with a Ford 600 truck and not a pick-up, but those trailers are not that heavy.

I thought the same thing when I saw this. I just assumed everyone had done things like that. I moved my first house trailer in the mid 70's with my 3/4 ton Ford pickup. It was only 5 miles but 4 miles of that was on the freeway. Everything worked out which means I didn't get caught so all was good.

There were other things I did but while I am sure the statue of limitations has run on them, I will still withhold talking or typing about them.....for now.

 

[BrokenTrack]

I thought the same thing when I saw this. I just assumed everyone had done things like that. I moved my first house trailer in the mid 70's with my 3/4 ton Ford pickup. It was only 5 miles but 4 miles of that was on the freeway. Everything worked out which means I didn't get caught so all was good.

There were other things I did but while I am sure the statue of limitations has run on them, I will still withhold talking or typing about them.....for now.

I think there is a certain set of people (like me) who just have a can-do attitude. We are going to do as much for ourselves as we can. And there is a truth in life; "The Greater the Risk, the Greater the Reward!"

Those boys from Oklahoma, they probably saved themselves $2000 having someone haul the trailer to its new place. Good for them, because did it ever escape anyone that they are HOMEOWNERS and are financing homeownership themselves?

 

[Ford850]

I guess I am missing the significance of this. I think there are many of us that have moved a house-trailer down the road at least once. Okay, so it was with a Ford 600 truck and not a pick-up, but those trailers are not that heavy.

Another time, it was about 20 below one morning and one of the pulp trucks gelled up, so we got a ride back to the house and picked up one of those Dodge Ram's that they used to make. It had a V-10 in it, which was a new truck at the time. We chained that pick-up to the pulp truck and hauled it back to the shop to thaw out. We got some funny looks, but it worked.

Did you watch the video of them towing that trailer? The rear end of the trailer was collapsed and on the pavement, tearing it into pieces as they drove, creating a cloud of dust. That was until they tore up the truck.

 

[lilranch2001]

I agree, I walked away shaking my head from BT's posts