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[KennyG]

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When he gets to the scrap yard he should leave the truck and trailer also.

 

[RandyT]

That trailer and truck are in serious pain. I was trying to count the lug nuts on the trailer but I’m not sure. I think those are 3500 pound axles. I googled the weight of a Case 580 and got 17,000 to 19,000 pounds.

I think they are 6 lug so 5200 axles. Still way overloaded.

 

[civilian]

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Where is his oversize permits signs? Jon

 

[dstig1]

I think they are 6 lug so 5200 axles. Still way overloaded.

Yeah I count 6 lugs, but looks like maybe 4" channel at best. Maybe 3"...

These pics are just total head shakers. What is wrong with people?

 

[BravoXray]

That is a typical scrappers truck

Did you notice the different size tires on the trailer?

 

[BigBlue1]

You're right.
Common sense says it CAN'T be done , at least not safely.

And yet...... the picture proves it was.

Oh... thats right, it wasn't done safely.
But nothing damaged & no one hurt or even killed.

I just don't understand.

Well, he has a lot of straps on that TLB, so that's probably what made it work.

In seriousness though, sure it can be done. And sometimes it needs to be done. But if the road conditions veer to slippery/poor or someone pulls out in front of him or he does it a few times and the truck or trailer fatigues out it's going to be a bad day for some folks. It's called gambling - high stakes gambling.

 

[MTGreen]

Well I'm going to add something here idiotic that I did that I got really lucky on.
This is the tongue of a 7x16 10k enclosed high roof trailer taking the very last one way load in a 1200mile interstate move. It was being towed by a 5 ton medium duty truck which was certainly up to the task.
I knew the trailer was overloaded so I drove at 60mph the entire way and stopped every couple hours to check tires/hubs/etc.
So after taking the entire 100 mile Salt Lake City metro area on the I-15 (one of the worst maintained stretches of interstate in the country IMO), trailer feels a little bouncy for lack of a better term and I stop and find this.
Tongue box beams were attached only at the bottom on each side. Last pic is of roadside repair.

One of the stupidest things I've ever done. But fortune favors the fool as they say. I should have purchased a lottery ticket that day.

 

[Yogi05]

Well I'm going to add something here idiotic that I did that I got really lucky on.
This is the tongue of a 7x16 10k enclosed high roof trailer taking the very last one way load in a 1200mile interstate move. It was being towed by a 5 ton medium duty truck which was certainly up to the task.
I knew the trailer was overloaded so I drove at 60mph the entire way and stopped every couple hours to check tires/hubs/etc.
So after taking the entire 100 mile Salt Lake City metro area on the I-15 (one of the worst maintained stretches of interstate in the country IMO), trailer feels a little bouncy for lack of a better term and I stop and find this.
Tongue box beams were attached only at the bottom on each side. Last pic is of roadside repair.

One of the stupidest things I've ever done. But fortune favors the fool as they say. I should have purchased a lottery ticket that day.

Curious.
Looks like quite a bit of rust, specifically on the fresh break/crack.
Looks like it was broken for a while before you noticed?
1200 mile ...... 2 day trip?
Regardless, could have been very, very bad.

 

[700R]

 

[MTGreen]

Curious.
Looks like quite a bit of rust, specifically on the fresh break/crack.
Looks like it was broken for a while before you noticed?
1200 mile ...... 2 day trip?
Regardless, could have been very, very bad.

Maybe it had been broken for a while and I was luckier than I thought or more likely it had been cracked enough to rust a bit before splitting open like it did.
I did the 1200 miles at a stretch -took 26-30 hours per leg, and took 7.5 round trips with different trailers