Using a tree for a spare tire.

[Runner]

Actually, I had two of them. The first one blew out in just a couple of miles, but the second one got me home. So, I guess it wasn't such a bad idea afterall.

It was just a stop-gap measure, now I have a regular sized spare for the trailer..

 

[CompactTractorFan]

Uh...no...

 

[Tig]

That's funny. When I read the title, Fred Flintstone came to mind. But Fred would have at least mounted a round on the axle. Just as a temp spare until he could get a stone replacement.

 

[jimmysisson]

I have seen that done a few times over the years. There was a report of someone in southern California that got a ticket for towing a car with a wooden beam for a front tire. There are a couple of videos out now with tree limbs being used on a trailer.


I wonder what the ticket was for? Using unauthorized equipment?
Jim

 

[rockinmywaypa]

I remember doing it once with a square baler that had to have a flat while on the highway, grabbed a fence post, lifted the baler with loader, chain it into place and get off the road as quick as possible. The needles would have been dragging if I hadn't lifted it up so I couldn't just run it on a flat.

 

[woodsmith]

I have a book about American transport used during WW2. It shows exactly that method for getting light vehicles out of the dirt when an axle or wheel broke.

Seems sensible to me if used for getting to a safe place for repairs or recovery but not for the highway!

Besides, with that size of trailer, had it been me I would have put it on the roof rack.:thumbsup:

 

[escavader]

Its ok to do if its from a rubber tree:laughing::laughing::laughing:

 

[RadarTech]

This is good.... I can see me doing this!!!!!!!!!!!

 

[Andy in Gap]

I never would have thought to do something like that in an emergency. It reminds me of a native american travois, which was the original trailor, I guess. Should have known some of you guys have been there, done that.

 

[MikeD74T]

I have a book about American transport used during WW2. It shows exactly that method for getting light vehicles out of the dirt when an axle or wheel broke.

Seems sensible to me if used for getting to a safe place for repairs or recovery but not for the highway!

Besides, with that size of trailer, had it been me I would have put it on the roof rack.:thumbsup:

Take another look:

• That trailer's wider than the car roof
• too heavy for less than 4 people to lift that high
• he ain't got a roof rack

I've used the travois to bring a Farmall tractor with a broken wheel out of the woods and to get a snowmobile with a broken & jammed track back to a trailer. Not knowing how far he's going I'd have brought a couple extra logs. MikeD74T