What the....wide load
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HHR
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Where is the police convoy?
CompactTractorFan
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:laughing: The worst wide load I have seen was a house coming down the road. There was only inches on either side (we thought we were going to be hit). I don't know if it had a police escort but I think there was pilot cars. Another time we were coming up to a light and we saw two state police cars coming down the road. A few minutes later there was multiple pilot cars and state police front and back and a HUGE 18...uh...100 wheeler coming down with a huge piece of industrial equipment (transformer maybe). That tractor must of has 5 axles and the trailer must of had 25 axles with multiple "jeeps". :confused2:
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Our area is big on Wind Mills. The new kind. The blades are something like 180' long on some of them. They are not a wide load but 3 times the length of a standard Semi.
I tow a boat that is 13' wide and weighs 25,000#. The weight is not a issue but that width is a pain. We run a pilot front and rear and get a permit but it takes careful planning and you really have to think about the turns.
I personally own a 10' wide boat, the one in my avatar, and tow it all over 8 states. I guess its just what you are comfortable with.
Chris
I tow a boat that is 13' wide and weighs 25,000#. The weight is not a issue but that width is a pain. We run a pilot front and rear and get a permit but it takes careful planning and you really have to think about the turns.
I personally own a 10' wide boat, the one in my avatar, and tow it all over 8 states. I guess its just what you are comfortable with.
Chris
No problem with a legal wide load...I wasn't clear really but that was my point..he was begging for a ticket.
Here in SC where I saw him he needed a wide load sign, flags on the corners, and he had to be off the road 30 mins before sundown.... he didn't meet any of those, and I bet he didn't have a clue either:confused2:
As for comfortable--I didn't mention when I first saw him he was doing 75 in a 60 weaving lanes, so either very comfortable or......
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Maybe out of stater didn't know the laws??
LostInTheWoods
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You probably won't believe it, but I'm going to post it anyway. About a year-and-a-half ago, I'm driving home from work. A nice, long country drive. Kind of hilly and narrow shoulders. Typical country road.
About half-way home I get behind some folks pulling a mobile home. Not all that dramatic, typically.
But pulling this house are four cars and trucks all chained together in a line...a late 80's or early 90's model Ford F150, a 90's model Ford Taurus, a Chevy Cavalier, and some car I wasn't quite sure what it might have been under all the bondo and multiple paint colors, but looked to be similar to an early 2000's Ford Fiesta.
I have no idea how far they had made it by the time I caught up to them, but about a mile-and-a-half after I got behind them the Taurus starts billowing smoke while they're trying to get up a hill, and the whole procession comes to a halt.
About half-way home I get behind some folks pulling a mobile home. Not all that dramatic, typically.
But pulling this house are four cars and trucks all chained together in a line...a late 80's or early 90's model Ford F150, a 90's model Ford Taurus, a Chevy Cavalier, and some car I wasn't quite sure what it might have been under all the bondo and multiple paint colors, but looked to be similar to an early 2000's Ford Fiesta.
I have no idea how far they had made it by the time I caught up to them, but about a mile-and-a-half after I got behind them the Taurus starts billowing smoke while they're trying to get up a hill, and the whole procession comes to a halt.
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We've got the same thing going on up here right now, they're putting in new ones. I have no problem with them, some of the locals ar MAD, don't like them I quess. The only problem I have is all the electricity is going to be shipped down to our states septic tank NY CITY
When is NY going to become the 51st state, I'm sick of paying for its BS {sorry for the rant}
LostInTheWoods
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Hey, that was me. Why didn't you stop to help?
Steve
Heck, you made it pretty far then. Carolina is a good ways from here. :laughing: Or did you pick it up here, and were taking it back home?
My truck's only 8 years old. That's apparently too "new" to be pulling a mobile home...this bunch wasn't using much that didn't have a decade or more on it.