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Don't have a truck to haul your laminate flooring home.... Just bust out the back window.
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No chains required...

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Only attachment is the picture of the trike-truck standing up. Unsure why the link is going to an invalid attachment.
 
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Twice within the last month I've seen small utility trailers with broken tongues on the road. No pics of either as we have a no cell law here and too much traffic to stop.

First looked like about a 4'x8' piece of junk trailer with a older (early 80s?) compact tractor with loader. The tractor itself just fit on the 4x8 and had a loader with the bucket curled all the way under to clear the tailgate of the truck. Tongue broken/bent right at the front of the bed dragging on the ground as he pulled off the main road onto a side road.

Second was a 5x10 single axle landscape/utility trailer with a bunch of 12' lumber piled out over the front rail. He made it from the Home Depot parking lot just out onto the main highway (two lane each way with a fifth center shared turn lane) before it gave out exactly the same way. It was parked in the center lane with the 4 ways on when I went by. The trailer if it had been in good shape would have been more than sufficient to carry the load (unless there were a bunch of bags of cement that I couldn't see) under the lumber
 
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Twice within the last month I've seen small utility trailers with broken tongues on the road.
Not nearly as serious but I put an IBC Tote (275 gallons) on a $30 used HF 40"x48" trailer. That worked fine for watering new trees until I tried to back uphill in freshly disced ground, which bent the tongue.

I welded a piece of bedframe angle iron onto the very soft U-channel tongue of the HF trailer. This has worked fine for several years now - even though I'm pulling 2600 lbs on a trailer rated 900 lbs. Here's a photo of the weld project I put over on Welding Web - let's see if they allow links: (photo). No way would I take this trailer on the highway!
 

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