Share Pics of People Hauling or Towing Something Wrong

[seville009]

 

[WinterDeere]

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Ding, ding! We have a winner!

 

[deezler]

Always amazed at those "put a whole scrap car into the truck bed" shots. The amount of energy, time, fiddling, and rigging it must take to get it plopped in there and secured. Combined with the surely high amount of damage sustained to the truck bed and rear end. All to avoid borrowing a trailer?

Meth is a hell of a drug.

 

[seville009]

 

[BigBlue1]

When your truck's toolbox is rusty you might want to check on your frame...

 

[ning]

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*mild shock*

Besides this being about a 30 year old truck

Counting concrete bags, on that stack at the (truck) front right - 7 layers, 10 bags each; same stack on the left side, and a 5-stack behind it -- that's 190 bags.

I can't tell if those are 60's or 80's; if they're 60's, that's 11400 pounds of concrete

The cab&chassis had a capacity of ~9500#, of which some of that's taken by the flatbed and and toolbox
Leaving him probably 3k overloaded

If those are 80# bags, that's 7k overloaded

 

[old and tired]

I'm guessing here but where the pallet is located, there might be another pallet on the other side. Plus the one in the rear....

 

[WinterDeere]

I'm guessing here but where the pallet is located, there might be another pallet on the other side. Plus the one in the rear....

Agreed. The one on the rear really wouldn't have contributed to that particular failure, but if there were a second hiding behind that one placed toward the front of the bed...

Obviously age / corrosion played a role, as the frame should withstand static loads several times higher than the weight rating of the vehicle, as would be required to handle that load while bouncing down the road.

 

[aczlan]

Agreed. The one on the rear really wouldn't have contributed to that particular failure, but if there were a second hiding behind that one placed toward the front of the bed...

Obviously age / corrosion played a role, as the frame should withstand static loads several times higher than the weight rating of the vehicle, as would be required to handle that load while bouncing down the road.

One in the front/center and two over the axle could have let it survive...

Aaron Z

 

[civilian]

Problem with those pallets, is how to unload them. I have never seen forks that rotate to the angle to be able to lift the pallet. I think someone has to unload them by hand. Jon