Peter 315
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OR brakes......
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OR brakes......
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Well considering that the trailer has air brakes and the truck don't, brakes would be totally optional...
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You know full well that trailer doesn’t have operational brakes being pulled behind the pickup.
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And want are the odds that you think they did?
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Zero......zip....:laughing:
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I mean if they actually had a real semi dolly then maybe they hooked up the brakes but these guys no chance.
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The trailer won't go without air to the emergency brake side so maybe they did. Or maybe they caged the springs.
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You could permanently pressures them or cage them. The chance of them having an on board compressor and a valve to work them is pretty much zero.
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This was before cell phones so unfortunately no video.
In the 80s I bought a new GMC van and I had a heavy duty trailer. One day a friend calls and asked if I could use a Clark propane forklift for $600? I said I'd be there with cash in an hour. I left work...went home getting everything and I was there.
I backed up to their warehouse loading dock but it was about three feet above my trailer.
Inside I checked forklift out...great shape so I handed the $600. Now how to load it? We're standing around outside trying to figure it out when I hear my forklift start up!
A worker said "Yall stand back" as another worker drove it other end of warehouse.
I'm not sure how fast a Clark forklift goes wide open but I see it flying out the loading dock!!!!!
What happened next would be amazing in slow motion. As it came out of course it went down. Forks caught end of trailer which made van and trailer shoot forward I'm guessing 30-40 feet, the hitch held but it looked like an "A"...van's rear up about 5-6 feet! The axx end of the forklift hit the pavement with a tremendous "BOOM" making a decent sized crater. Knocked the worker's glasses and hard hat off...he climbed out red faced.
Now what?!?
I heard construction going on nearby so I walked over and some guys running this big Cat loader like a 950. He brings over a huge chain, wraps it around the forklift cage, hooks to the bucket picking it up like a toy and says "where do you want it?".
So he puts it down over the axles and I dog it down.
It didn't seem to hurt the van, trailer or forklift.
In the 80s I bought a new GMC van and I had a heavy duty trailer. One day a friend calls and asked if I could use a Clark propane forklift for $600? I said I'd be there with cash in an hour. I left work...went home getting everything and I was there.
I backed up to their warehouse loading dock but it was about three feet above my trailer.
Inside I checked forklift out...great shape so I handed the $600. Now how to load it? We're standing around outside trying to figure it out when I hear my forklift start up!
A worker said "Yall stand back" as another worker drove it other end of warehouse.
I'm not sure how fast a Clark forklift goes wide open but I see it flying out the loading dock!!!!!
What happened next would be amazing in slow motion. As it came out of course it went down. Forks caught end of trailer which made van and trailer shoot forward I'm guessing 30-40 feet, the hitch held but it looked like an "A"...van's rear up about 5-6 feet! The axx end of the forklift hit the pavement with a tremendous "BOOM" making a decent sized crater. Knocked the worker's glasses and hard hat off...he climbed out red faced.
Now what?!?
I heard construction going on nearby so I walked over and some guys running this big Cat loader like a 950. He brings over a huge chain, wraps it around the forklift cage, hooks to the bucket picking it up like a toy and says "where do you want it?".
So he puts it down over the axles and I dog it down.
It didn't seem to hurt the van, trailer or forklift.
