Share Pics of People Hauling or Towing Something Wrong

[i7win7]

Lets drive down the road with a long piece of lumber sticking out of the van. Sideways.💥🚐😳

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And this is a tiny microcosm of America. Have you encountered a lot of people in real life that "love them a lot of tongue weight"?

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[BigBlue1]

Overestimating the intelligence of the public is not at all the same as saying that "in general Americans like to use excessive tongue weight on their trailers". A lot of people aren't great at trailering but I still know nobody who thinks "tons of tongue weight is best".

Is it really hard to grasp the concept without steering off into the ditch? Wait, don't answer that... this is tractorbynet so obviously it is.

 

[Grumpycat]

I design (among others) excavator chassis for high reach demolition rigs. Thickest flange i used so far was 4"
For booms we like full bevel on longitudinal welds too, just to avoid the fatigue crack initiation point in the root of a simple corner weld.

A flange in nuclear/oil work is a pipe fitting. Largest that comes to mind was 36". What makes it memorable was that I had to come up with a pivoting arm to hold the blind flange used to seal this service manhole. Opened out the side of a vessel. They wanted a permanent mini-crane. Forget now how much the blind flange weighed, at least 1000 pounds.

I used to be a student of the Taylor Forge catalog.

 

[KennyG]

Since there has been some discussion of tongue weight, I wonder if anyone has used the cell phone app with the OBD plug in that provides tongue weight as well as a number of other things. I would like to have a method to check the weight but I don't tow much and the cost of the hitch gauges is a bit high.

 

[WinterDeere]

A flange in nuclear/oil work is a pipe fitting. Largest that comes to mind was 36".

I use flanged copper sewer and drain pipe as coaxial cabling, in high power RF amplifiers and transmitters. People look at the stuff, and think it's a water main or sewer pipe, especially when you get to the sizes 6" and larger.

 

[WinterDeere]

Since there has been some discussion of tongue weight, I wonder if anyone has used the cell phone app with the OBD plug in that provides tongue weight as well as a number of other things. I would like to have a method to check the weight but I don't tow much and the cost of the hitch gauges is a bit high.

That is so friggin' cool, at least for factory-sprung vehicles. For anyone who doesn't know what the hell we're talking about:

Haul Gauge: Know what you tow.

Haul Gauge is a simple module that plugs into your vehicle's OBDII port and through an app on your smart phone, tells you your vehicle's tongue weight, pin weight, payload, and total vehicle and trailer weight combined.* *2008 or newer. Weigh functions excluded on Toyota vehicles.

www.haulgauge.com

 

[lilranch2001]

A flange in nuclear/oil work is a pipe fitting. Largest that comes to mind was 36". What makes it memorable was that I had to come up with a pivoting arm to hold the blind flange used to seal this service manhole. Opened out the side of a vessel. They wanted a permanent mini-crane. Forget now how much the blind flange weighed, at least 1000 pounds.

I used to be a student of the Taylor Forge catalog.

I’m not sure I understand the point of this post?!?!?

 

[Grumpycat]

I’m not sure I understand the point of this post?!?!?

The message I was replying to commented his largest flange was 4".

Then I related an experience building a small crane for "hauling" a 36" blind flange. This is the towing/hauling thread isn't it?

 

[Grumpycat]

I use flanged copper sewer and drain pipe as coaxial cabling, in high power RF amplifiers and transmitters. People look at the stuff, and think it's a water main or sewer pipe, especially when you get to the sizes 6" and larger.

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