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[civilian]

Hopefully he is leaving the whole thing at the dump.

Looks like a paper plate in the back window. Jon

 

[bmaverick]

Saw this today; I have family who are police and said they wouldn't pull this guy over to check, but this looks sketchy to me.

Bet he has tie-dwons at the front axle. It's the common trait when hauling the Club Cars in truck beds. This is a popular site to see in the south eastern states from FL and up through the Carolinas.

 

[aczlan]

No time for a photo, but today at the merge point of two freeways I saw a CHP officer, flashing lights on, parked behind and protecting a small junk trailer. As we got closer it was obvious the hub and wheel had come off the trailer leaving just the stub axle. Somebody forgot the cotter pin?

Seemed to me the only way to get the pickup and trailer to a safe place would be to just order the pickup to drag the trailer as-is to the shoulder beyond the merge, because getting a wrecker in there and hooked up with a dolly would disrupt traffic and likely cause crashes.

Unhook it, winch it onto a rollback and go? Should take 5 minutes once the truck arrives and not obstruct traffic beyond what is already happening.

Aaron Z

 

[sea2summit]

Someone should ask some questions about this ball hitch and trailer rating…

 

[mrmikey]

Nothing wrong with that trailer. It's the new 'High speed model with canted wheel assemblies for faster high speed turns on the freeway". Same deal as those ricers with the tires bend outwards at a 45 degree angle. That is scary.

 

[WinterDeere]

Someone should ask some questions about this ball hitch and trailer rating…
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What's your guess on the weight of that excavator? Looks like a 10k trailer, two 5k axles, although I suppose it could just as easily be a 7k trailer.

 

[sea2summit]

What's your guess on the weight of that excavator? Looks like a 10k trailer, two 5k axles, although I suppose it could just as easily be a 7k trailer.

I googled what I thought I saw on the side and it came back as 14-17k machine….I won’t swear I got it right though.

 

[4570Man]

I googled what I thought I saw on the side and it came back as 14-17k machine….I won’t swear I got it right though.

I’m guessing that’s more like a 5 ton. Excavators much over 5 tons are too wide to haul on fender trailers. And I’m almost positive those are 17.5” tires on that trailer which means it probably has 8k axels for 16k combined. I’m guessing the axel got bent from a previous accident not just loading the excavator.

 

[i7win7]

 

[lilranch2001]

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That had to hurt…..