Robert_in_NY
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- Joined
- Aug 1, 2001
- Messages
- 8,588
- Location
- Silver Creek, NY
- Tractor
- Case-IH Farmall 45A, Kubota M8540 Narrow, New Holland TN 65, Bobcat 331, Ford 1920, 1952 John Deere M, Allis Chalmers B, Bombardier Traxter XT, Massey Harris 81RC and a John Deere 3300 combine, Cub Cadet GT1554
We have a construction business and run dump trailers to haul material away. Yesterday one of our workers hooked up the trailer to the F-250 and we looked and all the wires and cables were hooked up right as well as the lock being down and pinned to hold on the ball. My father took the truck and in the middle of town the trailer came off. Luckily the breakaway popped and stopped the trailer so it didn't hit the truck but it destroyed the jackstand and now we have quite a bit of welding to do to fix it for a new jack. Our worker when he lowered the trailer on to the ball never opened the lock to begin with and just set the hitch on the ball. It is amazing it made it 6 miles before it came off and luckily only the jackstand was hurt. There was over a ton of material in the trailer which could have been a mess had the safety cables broke or the breakaway didn't work but the safety devices worked like they were suppose to. Another thing that helped was that we were in town where the speed limit was 30mph instead of being on the road at 60mph. We learned to always double check the connections now and hopefully it will never happen again. Take care.