Share Pics of People Hauling or Towing Something Wrong

joshuabardwell · Apr 20, 2014

dodge man said:
It looks like the prop in that pic is feathered. It also look like the pilot has a lot of aileron to keep it level.

Given that a guy appears to be hanging from the prop, I'm guessing the pilot killed the engine entirely.

94BULLITT · Apr 20, 2014

Yesterday on the way home in my car I saw a guy pulling out of a side road with a f-250 King ranch. He had a dump trailer behind the truck and I thought since he was pulling out from there he had just been to the quarry. Were he pulled out of there is a pretty good grade to pull. He was getting the job done pretty good. As I got closer i could tell the little brimar dump trailer was way over loaded, it looked like he had 7* of negative camber on the trailer axles. He had way too much tongue weight. He probably had 5 tons or more on a 7 or 10k trailer. As I started down the hill I could see a big John Deere tractor pulling a big disk. This next hill that the JD was started up is a really good hill for a loaded truck to pull. The guy in the F-250 dashed out around me and passed me going 70-75mph, He was struggling to keep it in the road. I thought I would be courteous and let him hit the hill with a good run then pass him on the hill. At the bottom of the hill is a bridge and it is not a smooth transition onto it. When he hit that bridge gravel came flying out of the back of the trailer and hit my car. After that ever bump he hit in the road gravel would fly out. I was pretty mad. I should have called the sheriff on him and told the he was losing his load and his trailer was over loaded. He would have probably been in WV before the got a cop out my way though.

Renze · Apr 20, 2014

California said:
That sounds like me when I recently brought home four 77lb wheel weights in my Focus station wagon. I folded the rear seat bench forward then seatbelted the weights to the floor as if they were passengers. The guy I bought them from watched this with a look "Now I've seen everything".

Few years ago a guy with a Volvo V70 took a nose dive into a tree at 60kmh. the tree didnt kill him, even the car wasnt too damaged. It was the cast iron stove in the back that killed him from behind.

crash325 · Apr 20, 2014

Just for fun,

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cqaigy2 · Apr 20, 2014

dodge man said:
It looks like the prop in that pic is feathered. It also look like the pilot has a lot of aileron to keep it level.

The prop is easier to hang on to when it's not turning so fast. :laughing:

edkemper · Apr 20, 2014

RDrancher said:
Congrats on the LE Ed. Color me jealous!

I don't yet know how lucky I am. I understand your feelings.

PhysAssist · Apr 21, 2014

Leaving for work a couple of days ago, I ended up behind a car with its flashers on, and I could see that he was following behind a farm tractor, not something unusual on our rural road

I had to follow them over the hill on our road going only about 10-12 mph, so as soon as we cleared the crest and I could see that the left lane was clear without oncoming traffic, , I signaled and pulled out to pass him.

Only then did I realize that there was another party involved in this caravan.

As I pulled past, I could see that the tractor had the rear bumper of a Dodge Dakota in its bucket, and had lifted the truck's whole rear end up off of the road, and was pushing it ahead of it, balanced on just the front tires with another idiot up front inside steering the truck.