How far do you think he got...heavy load

[Texas Dawg]

HAHAHA...I thought that said " I counted 6 lawyers......."

IF that load comes loose and causes an accident, it will say 6 lawyers at least.

 

[hunterridgefarm]

I am surprised One of the people did not throw some on the back of the truck. No way are they going to unload it other than by hand.

I surprised he was able to get someone at Lowes to help him load it!

 

[4570Man]

He was probably planning on unloading it with his BX. :laughing: I seriously doubt his trailer had a 3,500 pound axel. I heavy duty lawn mower weighs about 1,500 pounds, and I big lawnmower wouldn't fit on the trailer. That is the major disadvantage of a new truck. I would have set it right in the back of my old truck.

 

[kevin37b]

Amazing how many people left school without understanding basic physics.

They just left school ...

 

[LD1]

hard to tell what kind of truck it is, almost looks like a step-side? Wonder if a pallet would even fit? And probably beyond the limits of its payload capacity anyway.

 

[4570Man]

hard to tell what kind of truck it is, almost looks like a step-side? Wonder if a pallet would even fit? And probably beyond the limits of its payload capacity anyway.

I'm pretty sure it is a GMC Canyon. The pallet would fit, but it would have been over the weight limit. Overloading stuff doesn't seem to bother him anyway. My Grandpa does the same thing. I was riding around with him a few weeks ago. We needed to haul a grapple to the shop. I would have dropped it right in the back of my junk truck. He has a new truck so we had to hook up a lawnmower trailer. If you have to hook up a trailer to haul something that would fit in the bed kinda defeats the point of having a pickup. An SUV would have pulled the trailer just as good. Pretty much anything with a trailer hitch would have pulled my trailer with the grapple on it.

 

[JRobyn]

Back in my much stupider youth, I once helped my FIL with a concrete project - in the day, you could rent a pre-mixed concrete "trailer" at the concrete supplier and they would fill it with whatever you needed. Kinda like a dump bucket on wheels. I had the only vehicle in the family with a trailer hitch - an '84 Toyota Celica with a bolt-on bumper hitch; not even frame mounted. I believe that he ordered and we actually picked up and delivered a full yard of wet concrete. The brakes didn't seem to work quite as well, but somehow we made it! Fortunately we only had to carry it a few miles. IIRC, the clutch survived, but I did have to replace the U-joints in that car at some point.

- Jay

 

[Egon]

Looking at the pictures again; the trailer did not sink on the springs a whole lot. The truck went down much more. It also looks like some hefty tire's on the trailer.

 

[TnAndy]

Third world countries are not overloaded with dime store lawyers. I would think that Lowe's would use a bit more discretion same as many equipment rental places do these days about overloading. Had this person gotten into an accident you can bet that Lowe's could very well be dragged into the court room.

Yeah....you'd THINK Lowes would have more sense, but apparently not.

Some years back, I watched Lowes load a guys little tiny single axle lawn mower type trailer, kind with the little 12" tires, with a pallet of shingles.....after they loaded it and the owner walked back into the store, I walked over and looked at the plate on the tongue.....rated for 750lbs load. The pallet of shingles was something like 15-20 squares if I recall....say 200lb/sq.....3,000-4,000lbs. THEN the guy comes out with a 6 rolls of tarpaper and adds that to the pile !

I went in and talked to a manager about the stupidity of it. His response was "it's the customer's problem....we simply load it on their vehicle, whatever it is".

I thought "yeah.....wait until that thing falls apart on the interstate....who would you guess has the deeper pockets...that idiot or Lowes ? "

 

[TnAndy]

Was coming thru Knoxville TN on I-40 once, and sitting beside the road was a 1/2 ton long, wide bed pickup truck with 4' high plywood sideboards and gravel heaped up to top of those. The way it was sitting, it looked like both axles had broken out of the differential, as the truck was sitting on the differential housing and the axles appeared to be tilted up at a 15-20 degree angle like they had simply snapped out. WISH I'd had a camera at the time !

Truck probably had 8-10 tons of gravel on it. What is amazing is that it was even able to pull out of where ever the quarry was and even make it up onto the interstate before something broke. Idiot ruined a truck to save what probably was a $50 haul bill at that time.