Share Pics of People Hauling or Towing Something Wrong

[sixdogs]

While I was buying gas today I saw a 50ish year old woman filling two five gallon plastic gas cans. She put them in the back of her mini-van and there was no cap on the spouts. A little gas spilled as she put them in the back. I'm a risk taker but no way would I do that. A spark from the dome light could send her to the promised land.

 

[Diggin It]

I just remembered the day I hauled 6 20' sections of fence toprail about 30 miles on the roof of a 95 Taurus wagon. That took some doing.

 

[two_bit_score]

This photo might be applicable... here is my hacked up hot tub just before hauling off to the dump.

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Like a boat? The day you get it and the day you get rid of it are the two best??

 

[Howling]

Back early 90's. Company I worked for was installing equipment in a clients plant. I remember putting about 8 20' lengths of 4" copper pipe on top plus few hundred pounds of parts in my VW rabbit for the 100 mile drive to the site. Someone else laid a few hydrogen cylinder in back of company station wagon for the trip.

Sam era, with the help of a sawzall I put a scrap car in a dumpster. hardest part was lifting the engine block and transmission up and in.

 

[Gunny]

No pictures because things happened so quickly and I was towing the fifth wheel, so I didn't stop, but yesterday we were coming up I-65 just north of Birmingham AL, the interstate at that point was 3 lanes. Traffic was very light (turned out to be a good thing all round) and a F150 went by me in the center lane towing a smaller trailer, probably 5x10, he had to be going at least 75-80 MPH.
The little trailer was bouncing all of the place and just after he passed me, the trailer jumped off the hitch (no safety chains), rolled forward just a bit, then the tongue hit the road and that thing was spinning and rolling everywhere in front of me.

I was darned near at the point where the brakes were locked up, trying to keep my way out of the danger area, a semi in the left lane was locked up, the wife was gripping the dashboard so hard I'm sure her fingerprints are still embedded in it and I was sitting in a puddle of sweat. I think it was sweat, hope so.

Anyway, the trailer made it over the right side of the road before digging in and flipping a few times before stopping.

The kicker - the F150 didn't stop, as far as I can tell, he didn't even know he'd lost the trailer since I never saw his brake lights flash, he just kept on getting on.

 

[farm boy00]

Tuesday evening I ran over a spare tire in the highway and blew out my front passenger side tire. Was violent enough that the spare tire I hit bent one of the fender supports on my trailer and knocked loose a 2in ratchet holding 2 semi loading ramps. I'm just thankful that the semi in front of me did not hit the tire and send it flying into me.
There was no way to avoid it either because of the cars passing me.

Always make sure your spare tires are bolted down correctly. I picked up a brand new one about a month ago in the middle of the highway at my exit.

 

[zing]

No pictures because things happened so quickly and I was towing the fifth wheel, so I didn't stop, but yesterday we were coming up I-65 just north of Birmingham AL, the interstate at that point was 3 lanes. Traffic was very light (turned out to be a good thing all round) and a F150 went by me in the center lane towing a smaller trailer, probably 5x10, he had to be going at least 75-80 MPH.
The little trailer was bouncing all of the place and just after he passed me, the trailer jumped off the hitch (no safety chains), rolled forward just a bit, then the tongue hit the road and that thing was spinning and rolling everywhere in front of me.

I was darned near at the point where the brakes were locked up, trying to keep my way out of the danger area, a semi in the left lane was locked up, the wife was gripping the dashboard so hard I'm sure her fingerprints are still embedded in it and I was sitting in a puddle of sweat. I think it was sweat, hope so.

Anyway, the trailer made it over the right side of the road before digging in and flipping a few times before stopping.

The kicker - the F150 didn't stop, as far as I can tell, he didn't even know he'd lost the trailer since I never saw his brake lights flash, he just kept on getting on.

Holy ****, that would be crazy seeing it flipping around in front of you and knowing you can't do anything but hope it happens to bounce the right way. Like standing in front of a football bouncing toward you trying to catch it, and knowing that at any time it can just go whatever direction it wants to. Except of course, that you were trying NOT to catch the trailer.

 

[aeblank]

Tuesday evening I ran over a spare tire in the highway and blew out my front passenger side tire. Was violent enough that the spare tire I hit bent one of the fender supports on my trailer and knocked loose a 2in ratchet holding 2 semi loading ramps. I'm just thankful that the semi in front of me did not hit the tire and send it flying into me.
There was no way to avoid it either because of the cars passing me.

Always make sure your spare tires are bolted down correctly. I picked up a brand new one about a month ago in the middle of the highway at my exit.

I went to air up my trucks spare tire before a trip a few years back. Holy crap, it wasnt there! It was held with a cable winch that rusted through. No clue when/where it went. Obviously hoping it was quietly in a ditch somewhere by itself (no vehicles in the ditch with it). On the "new" truck, I oil (or fluid film) up the cable now and then.

 

[buckeyefarmer]

No pictures, so it didnt happen, but there is a rumor i once hauled a couch home on the top of a chevy monza. Cant confirm nor deny said incident.

 

[Jstpssng]

I went to air up my trucks spare tire before a trip a few years back. Holy crap, it wasnt there! It was held with a cable winch that rusted through. No clue when/where it went. Obviously hoping it was quietly in a ditch somewhere by itself (no vehicles in the ditch with it). On the "new" truck, I oil (or fluid film) up the cable now and then.

That’s why the first thing that I do when getting a new truck is take the spare tire out. Up here leaving it in place just leaves you with a rusty rim by the time that you need it, and it also holds the road salt so that you end up with a rusty frame. My first Ford Ranger had a nice tire holder which hinged down. I run a lot of dirt roads so when I had my first flat I dropped the tire, only to discover that the rim was completely filled with gravel. Because it was winter I had to bring it into the cab to thaw enough so that I could clean it out. More recently I had left just my house with my 3 YO Sierra when I heard a “thud”. Looking in my mirror I saw my spare tire laying in the road. I thought the cable had probably broken as you had experienced, instead the bracket which attaches to the frame had broken. It’s a pain sometimes having it take up space in the bed: but nowhere near as bad as having a flat miles from nowhere and discovering the spare is gone.