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My Bro sent this to me , found it somewere on the net . And " NO " this is not ME or My Trailer , ( I have a Big Tex Dump :)

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Fred H.

:laughing:

In all honesty though, maybe he was trying to hold the walls together?
 
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Because there are these signs along the roads:

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Bruce
 
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Sorry Folks !!! Thought I had " Cleaned " the verbage off the picture before posting and did not realize it double posted . Deleted post with verbage on previous page .

Seriously Sprinklerman ?? That was posted Here ?? Hope Somebody Seen that and Was not Actaully Doing That . Wow , That just does not look right .:shocked:

Fred H.
 
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Heck that was an easy tow.

I'm within the allowable weight rating for the trailer, tires, hitch, and for the Subaru.

It was 20 miles on back farm roads, open country with no one else around, 40 mph max in a few spots that had a half mile line of sight, but mostly slower. It was uneventful.

Planning was about the same as you would do for a special-permit oversize load, ie travel at an hour when nobody is on the road and didn't get near populated areas.

This earlier one below was hairier. It was several hundred lbs lighter so less stress on the trailer but the weather was over 110 and the only route was down I-5, the sort of modern interstate with little traffic but with areas posted 70mph. 45~occasionally 50 mph on that route for a hundred miles was definitely hair raising.

In both those transports, I never got anywhere near another car so no excitement from anything unexpected. The main consideration was to think far ahead and leave so much space in front of me that I could have come to a complete standstill if something weird occurred way down the road ahead.

But none of my three tractors has ever left the ranch after arriving. No need, and no interest in repeating those tows.

 
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Heck that was an easy tow.

I'm within the allowable weight rating for the trailer, tires, hitch, and for the Subaru.

It was 20 miles on back farm roads, open country with no one else around, 40 mph max in a few spots that had a half mile line of sight, but mostly slower. It was uneventful.

Planning was about the same as you would do for a special-permit oversize load, ie travel at an hour when nobody is on the road and didn't get near populated areas.

This earlier one below was hairier. It was several hundred lbs lighter so less stress on the trailer but the weather was over 110 and the only route was down I-5, the sort of modern interstate with little traffic but with areas posted 70mph. 45~occasionally 50 mph on that route for a hundred miles was definitely hair raising.

In both those transports, I never got anywhere near another car so no excitement from anything unexpected. The main consideration was to think far ahead and leave so much space in front of me that I could have come to a complete standstill if something weird occurred way down the road ahead.

But none of my three tractors has ever left the ranch after arriving. No need, and no interest in repeating those tows.


In some respects, I'd sooner have somebody on the road with a small vehicle/marginal load and driving carefully, than somebody who thinks they have a bulletproof setup and is driving along with their feet up on the dash, while texting.

You got 'er done, and don't make a habit of repeating same. :thumbsup:

One thing we all need to watch with tow ratings - braked vs. unbraked loads. Many small vehicles aren't rated above 1,000# unbraked; some require trailer brakes, even for 1000#.

Had a conversation with a guy recently - he was driving his 30,000 rated flat deck truck empty, towing a good sized unbraked trailer, loaded. On a local hill, the trailer pushed him through an intersection, as the braked truck wheels didn't have enough vertical load. An accident was only avoided because it was a another truck driver who had the crossing green, saw what was going on, and didn't take his right of way.

Driving an HD setup does not make you immune to accidents.

Rgds, D.
 
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Driving an HD setup does not make you immune to accidents.
Rgds, D.

It just means we lived through the idiotic things we did when we were young and now can afford bigger toys. Hopefully learned a few things along the way.
 
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It just means we lived through the idiotic things we did when we were young and now can afford bigger toys. Hopefully learned a few things along the way.


True enough. Surely I have a guardian angel because a lot of these dumb things look familiar to stuff I have done in my youth.
 

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