Share Pics of People Hauling or Towing Something Wrong

[Travelover]

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This I understand. I have a mother-in-law, too.

 

[George2615]

When towing goes wrong ...

Wonder what he was trying to tow that got him bouncing like that.

 

[bcp]

Wonder what he was trying to tow that got him bouncing like that.

Looks like trying to pull an excavator onto a trailer.

Bruce

 

[George2615]

Looks like trying to pull an excavator onto a trailer.

Bruce

Thanks, Californias vid didn't show the excavator.

 

[PhysAssist]

Good buddy of mine lost control on black ice in a K5 Blazer. He was doing about 40 miles a hour and hit a cement culvert. He just had the spare tire laying behind the back seat and a 2" trailer ball. The ball went through the front window. The spare tire folded down the back seat, broke the passengers seat from the floor, and pushed the dash into the firewall.

He was lucky, both of those objects could have killed him.

Chris

Similarly, the biggest argument for backseat passengers to wear seatbelts is not to prevent their death or injury in accidents, it is to keep them from killing the driver or front seat passengers, which they otherwise do pretty regularly.

 

[PhysAssist]

Good buddy of mine lost control on black ice in a K5 Blazer. He was doing about 40 miles a hour and hit a cement culvert. He just had the spare tire laying behind the back seat and a 2" trailer ball. The ball went through the front window. The spare tire folded down the back seat, broke the passengers seat from the floor, and pushed the dash into the firewall.

He was lucky, both of those objects could have killed him.

Chris

Similarly, the biggest argument for backseat passengers to wear seatbelts is not to prevent their death or injury in accidents, it is to keep them from killing the driver or front seat passengers, which they otherwise do pretty regularly.

 

[California]

I believe it.

A 'Best ads' winner by Volvo emphasizing their safety features showed hitting something that stopped the car instantly. Everyone was belted properly, no one was injured, but the kid's doll flew from the back window shelf and broke a star into the windshield.

(Volvo never ran that ad in the US. I happened to see it among other winning ads several years ago).

 

[MinnesotaEric]

Not wanting to turn away a free boat lift, I made arrangements to do a recovery of the free-to-me-boat-lift. After getting the lift on my trailer, a garage fire broke out two doors down.

10 seconds after taking this photo, it occurred to me that if the fellow had a propane bottle in his garage, I didn't want to be near what could amount to a timed fuse artillery simulator and so I high-tailed it out of there.

Upon getting back to my truck, it dawned to me that all of our local police were over at the fire, and right now would be a good time to hit the highway with my unsecured load. So off I went!

Earlier in the week I snapped a photo of a kindred spirit who very carefully had leashed down his load to the pallet it was sitting on and the pallet itself was leashed down with nothing more than gravity.

 

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Not wanting to turn away a free boat lift, I made arrangements to do a recovery of the free-to-me-boat-lift. After getting the lift on my trailer, a garage fire broke out two doors down.

10 seconds after taking this photo, it occurred to me that if the fellow had a propane bottle in his garage, I didn't want to me near what could amount to a timed fuse artillery simulator and so I high-tailed it out of there.

Upon getting back to my truck, it dawned to me that all of our local police were over at the fire, and right now would be a good time to hit the highway with my unsecured load. So off I went!

Earlier in the week I snapped a photo of a kindred spirit who very carefully had leashed down his load to the pallet it was sitting on and the pellet was leashed down with nothing more than gravity.

LOL GOOD ONES>>

 

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LOL GOOD ONES>>

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