How do you move your ATV??
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RoyJackson
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Talk about an accident waiting for a place to happen.
That's almost like what I saw a coupla years ago. A guy had taken a pickup bedliner and bolted it on top of an old sedan. When I saw it, it was empty, but I can just see him loading an ATV or lumber in it and taking off.
Amazing what people will do.
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Amazing what people will do.
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</font><font color="blue" class="small">( Is that legal??? )</font>
i dont see why it wouldnt be legal as long as it is properly secured, i personaly would have used a few more tie down straps but i dont think theres any law against it, people carry boats on the roof of cars all the time so whats so bad about a atv, as long as it secured and ya dont mind a few scratches in the trunk and roof then it seems fine to me, the atv shouldnt be too heavy for a fullsize car
i dont see why it wouldnt be legal as long as it is properly secured, i personaly would have used a few more tie down straps but i dont think theres any law against it, people carry boats on the roof of cars all the time so whats so bad about a atv, as long as it secured and ya dont mind a few scratches in the trunk and roof then it seems fine to me, the atv shouldnt be too heavy for a fullsize car
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<font color="blue"> as long as it is properly secured </font>
That's the big issue. Last year right before deer season, I just pulled out on the highway one morning. Another guy in a lifted pickup with oversize tires and loud pipes pulled out behind me and began accellerating much faster and passed me. As he passed me I saw that he had a large new deer blind in the back of his truck held by a small diameter rope. I could see it coming so I backed off. Sure enough after he got about 200 yards ahead, probably past 70 already, the rope broke, the blind jumped out and started bouncing down the road and slid off in the ditch. I normally would have stopped to help but I figured this guy wasn't the sharpest tack in the world so I let him deal with it. /forums/images/graemlins/crazy.gif
That's the big issue. Last year right before deer season, I just pulled out on the highway one morning. Another guy in a lifted pickup with oversize tires and loud pipes pulled out behind me and began accellerating much faster and passed me. As he passed me I saw that he had a large new deer blind in the back of his truck held by a small diameter rope. I could see it coming so I backed off. Sure enough after he got about 200 yards ahead, probably past 70 already, the rope broke, the blind jumped out and started bouncing down the road and slid off in the ditch. I normally would have stopped to help but I figured this guy wasn't the sharpest tack in the world so I let him deal with it. /forums/images/graemlins/crazy.gif
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yea scary some of the stuff you see on the highway, my friends always make fun of me for using too many tie downs, i will be tying on lumber with a 2 inch ratchet strap to hold a half dozen two by fours and they will be like "just throw a bunjee cord on it", or somethin like "that doesnt even need to be tied down it aint going no where" but i am a bit paranoid about stuff flying off on the road so i tend to strap or chain it down very tight. thats why i hate pickup beds, no place to secure stuff too, none of the tie downs are heavy enough to hold an object thats as heavy as the truck is rated for, thats why i like the flatbed on my F350, 3 inch channel iron so theres plenty of places to hook chains and straps too
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Mark; I'm moving to your state! Alot of guys your age around here are still trying to be little gangsters. I'm one that reads the bios. /forums/images/graemlins/grin.gif
Seriously tho, we share the same thoughts on hauling loads, that photo really doesn't surprise me, I drive up and down I75 alot!!! /forums/images/graemlins/mad.gif
Seriously tho, we share the same thoughts on hauling loads, that photo really doesn't surprise me, I drive up and down I75 alot!!! /forums/images/graemlins/mad.gif
