Share Pics of People Hauling or Towing Something Wrong

[Redlands Okie]

Now hang on a sec. I thing pictures of someone using comealongs to tow a tree or two on either or both ends of the truck would be interesting.

 

[bcp]

Tree towing:

Bruce

 

[dragoneggs]

Looking good! Talk about the tail wagging the dog. Hoping for no wind I bet!

 

[civilian]

Tree towing:

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Bruce

Based on a local news report yesterday s,omeone in Michigan reported a smallish pine tree was cut down in his wind break row of pine trees. Though they were not decorated. And then this comes along. So I wonder if the driver cut the pictured one down from a public or private display just to save him time to decorate it. LOL Jon

 

[Garandman]

Want to make it snow like crazy? Bring your snowmobile in for service. Want to make it rain? Get it back.

This trailer is the popular Harbor Freight Heavy Duty Trailer kit we bought for $259 on sale. Weight capacity is 1,970, but this sled (about 750$) or two motorcycles (800# total) are the most we put on it. It’s had recalls for lights and tires but being able to move it by hand is useful.

 

[dragoneggs]

Want to make it snow like crazy? Bring your snowmobile in for service. Want to make it rain? Get it back.

This trailer is the popular Harbor Freight Heavy Duty Trailer kit we bought for $259 on sale. Weight capacity is 1,970, but this sled (about 750$) or two motorcycles (800# total) are the most we put on it. It’s had recalls for lights and tires but being able to move it by hand is useful.

Ha ha... ain't that the truth. Looks like fun. Keep the bearing greased and speed down with those things.

 

[zing]

I知 sure they would let me keep my animals (never talked to them about it), if I agreed to pay for the annexation, but if I ever sell, the fence and barns would kinda seem a little useless without livestock.

The village is also talking about starting a lawn management program, not sure how that would work on 3 acres if I don稚 mow it all every week.

Stuff like this should be told to the buyer when the property is sold, I was never informed and just received a letter in the mail asking why I never signed a petition not to annex.

For those reasons it might almost be worth digging a well and hooking septic up. For what I pay in water bills I could have a well paid off in less than 10 years. And I wouldn稚 have to worry about that when I sell the place.

Keep in mind that in some areas the water bill includes a charge for processing water run-off, which might be sewers but might even just be the presence of a ditch and culvert on the road facing part of your property. If that is the case, even if you dig a well and do not use the municipal water, you may still end up paying a bill to the municipality.

 

[Garandman]

Ha ha... ain't that the truth. Looks like fun. Keep the bearing greased and speed down with those things.

They track great at any speed.

The biggest problem with them seems to be folks think the grease-like preservative on the bearings is bearing grease, and don’t clean them and pack them with actual bearing grease, despite three different warnings.. Then they complain the bearings are no good.

Mega-thread On Advrider.

They’ve been taken off the market but Northern Tool sells similar kits.

 

[dragoneggs]

They track great at any speed.

The biggest problem with them seems to be folks think the grease-like preservative on the bearings is bearing grease, and don’t clean them and pack them with actual bearing grease, despite three different warnings.. Then they complain the bearings are no good.

Mega-thread On Advrider.

They’ve been taken off the market but Northern Tool sells similar kits.

True enough... I just get concerned with very small diameter tires and the associated RPM's causing too much heat and eventual failure due to freeway plus speeds. It sounds like you maintain your bearings (most don't in my experience) so probably a mute point in your case.

 

[California]

Recall Notice Harbor Freight All Trailers and Replacement Tires.

I just looked at HF's website and there's not a single trailer, or road tire, listed.

Recall (PDF) on HF's website:

https://images.harborfreight.com/hftweb/recalls/Tire-Recall-Notice-to-Customers.pdf

NHTSA (fed) website PDF:

https://static.nhtsa.gov/odi/rcl/2017/RCLRPT-17T017-3269.PDF
excerpt:
"Number of potentially involved : 173,557
Estimated percentage with defect :100 %