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ZippoZ
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Got home, and realized the trailer I was towing, was gone.
#15325061 - 11/05/11 12:53 AM (12 years, 4 months ago) |
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yeah.... pulled in to my driveway hoping that i had enough space for the truck and the trailer, and when i got out to check... it was fucking gone!
i had stopped a few blocks back to get food, and it was there when i got back in. So i just sprinted down the street, and found it a block away in an intersection, blocking traffic.
The nut that held the ball in on the hitch had unscrewed, and the ball had popped out. One safety chain disconnected, and the other ripped free of the trailer completely.
im really lucky this did not happen on the 200 mile trip i just took on the interstate.
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4runner
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Re: Got home, and realized the trailer I was towing, was gone. [Re: ZippoZ]
#15325071 - 11/05/11 12:56 AM (12 years, 4 months ago) |
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Damn man, that could have been bad.
Check your mirrors more often
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Umeltin
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Re: Got home, and realized the trailer I was towing, was gone. [Re: 4runner]
#15325084 - 11/05/11 12:59 AM (12 years, 4 months ago) |
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man that sucks, but couldve sucked alot worse
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ZippoZ
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Re: Got home, and realized the trailer I was towing, was gone. [Re: Umeltin]
#15325094 - 11/05/11 01:05 AM (12 years, 4 months ago) |
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yeah, i mean it happened a BLOCK from my house, i swear i felt it hit the curb going into the lot....
-------------------- PEACE zippoz "in times of widespread chaos and confusion, it has been the duty of more advanced human beings - artists, scientists, clowns, and philosophers - to create order. In such times as ours however, when there is too much order, too much m management, too much programming and control, it becomes the duty of superior men and women and women to fling their favorite monkey wrenches into the machinery. To relieve the repression of the human spirit, they must sow doubt and disruption" "People do it every day, they talk to themselves ... they see themselves as they'd like to be, they don't have the courage you have, to just run with it."
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Sheekle
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Re: Got home, and realized the trailer I was towing, was gone. [Re: ZippoZ]
#15325130 - 11/05/11 01:23 AM (12 years, 4 months ago) |
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laWLZ
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Re: Got home, and realized the trailer I was towing, was gone. [Re: Sheekle]
#15325260 - 11/05/11 02:41 AM (12 years, 4 months ago) |
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Baby_Hitler
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Re: Got home, and realized the trailer I was towing, was gone. [Re: Sheekle]
#15325261 - 11/05/11 02:41 AM (12 years, 4 months ago) |
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Dude, man.
I tied a tow eye to a ball hitch with a piece of twine to tow a trailer out of some rough hills a few months ago. It held up like a champ.
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Re: Got home, and realized the trailer I was towing, was gone. [Re: ZippoZ]
#15325528 - 11/05/11 06:52 AM (12 years, 4 months ago) |
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Could have been a lot worse.
One of the contractors on the job that I'm on right now lost a tow behind air compressor on the bridge over the Mississippi during rush hour traffic.
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Split Minded
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Re: Got home, and realized the trailer I was towing, was gone. [Re: ZippoZ]
#15325561 - 11/05/11 07:13 AM (12 years, 4 months ago) |
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ZippoZ said: yeah.... pulled in to my driveway hoping that i had enough space for the truck and the trailer, and when i got out to check... it was fucking gone!
i had stopped a few blocks back to get food, and it was there when i got back in. So i just sprinted down the street, and found it a block away in an intersection, blocking traffic.
The nut that held the ball in on the hitch had unscrewed, and the ball had popped out. One safety chain disconnected, and the other ripped free of the trailer completely.
im really lucky this did not happen on the 200 mile trip i just took on the interstate.
that sucks
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MadSeasonAbove
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Re: Got home, and realized the trailer I was towing, was gone. [Re: ZippoZ]
#15325565 - 11/05/11 07:18 AM (12 years, 4 months ago) |
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im really lucky this did not happen on the 200 mile trip i just took on the interstate.
No, you're lucky you didn't hurt or kill someone.
How did you not feel the trailer being freed from your towing vehicle? Trailer chains don't just happened to disconnect nice and easily, without shaking your vehicle to the point where you didn't notice it.
I apologize if this seems a bit rude, but I find this story hard to believe.
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Prisoner#1
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Re: Got home, and realized the trailer I was towing, was gone. [Re: MadSeasonAbove]
#15325827 - 11/05/11 09:03 AM (12 years, 4 months ago) |
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MadSeasonAbove said: Trailer chains don't just happened to disconnect nice and easily, without shaking your vehicle to the point where you didn't notice it.
having had a trailer break free from a pintle hook on the interstate I can say with certainty that I felt the shit out of it when the chains broke, it felt like I got rear ended.
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Gill
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Re: Got home, and realized the trailer I was towing, was gone. [Re: Prisoner#1]
#15325947 - 11/05/11 09:46 AM (12 years, 4 months ago) |
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If he wasn't traveling really fast when it detached, I don't imagine there would have been nearly as much of a lurch. That, and lying unprompted about something like this would be... strange.
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rackem
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Re: Got home, and realized the trailer I was towing, was gone. [Re: Gill]
#15325958 - 11/05/11 09:49 AM (12 years, 4 months ago) |
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torque wrench..
i thought you were gonna say it got jacked.. least ya got it back
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Prisoner#1
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Re: Got home, and realized the trailer I was towing, was gone. [Re: Gill]
#15326032 - 11/05/11 10:07 AM (12 years, 4 months ago) |
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Gill said: If he wasn't traveling really fast when it detached, I don't imagine there would have been nearly as much of a lurch. That, and lying unprompted about something like this would be... strange.
unless the chain that broke was really old and worn, he'd have felt something, I was traveling at 45mph and mine started dragging me sideways, the guy that witnessed it from behind was a trucker and he said he was amazed that I managed to keep the truck from rolling. he said I was on two wheels and sideways at the point my trailer hit the wall
what happened was I hit a dip on a bridge, the trailer bucked against the hook and it sheared the cotter pin that held it shut, that allowed the ring to beat against the lock and it popped open, the trailer swayed a little, and started pulling me sideways, I was working at correcting and trying to get the trailer back in line and off the road when I felt the sharp jerk as one chain snapped, the hook on the other straightened, the next thing I saw in my mirror was my trailer slamming the wall in the middle and soaring into the air... I thought it was about to go over the wall into the oncoming traffic but it shot across my side and wedged it's self under a guard rail
I've had other chains break and always felt them as well
since then I've always removed the chains and welded much heavier ones with better hook onto the trailers
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Prisoner#1
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Re: Got home, and realized the trailer I was towing, was gone. [Re: rackem]
#15326042 - 11/05/11 10:11 AM (12 years, 4 months ago) |
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rackem said: torque wrench..
lock nut or weld the nut in place
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rackem
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Re: Got home, and realized the trailer I was towing, was gone. [Re: Prisoner#1]
#15326051 - 11/05/11 10:13 AM (12 years, 4 months ago) |
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2 other very valid ways of going about it...
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Baby_Hitler
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Re: Got home, and realized the trailer I was towing, was gone. [Re: rackem]
#15326747 - 11/05/11 12:55 PM (12 years, 4 months ago) |
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I'm telling you, bro.
Twine.
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ZippoZ
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Re: Got home, and realized the trailer I was towing, was gone. [Re: Gill]
#15327636 - 11/05/11 04:37 PM (12 years, 4 months ago) |
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Gill said: If he wasn't traveling really fast when it detached, I don't imagine there would have been nearly as much of a lurch. That, and lying unprompted about something like this would be... strange.
The trailer was an empty mesh 2 wheel one that only weighed perhaps 200lbs, and I was driving a pretty massive diesel truck.
one of the chains broke, and was on the trailer, and the other just slipped loose somehow. so only one of them ripped free.
and as i said, this was going over a cobblestone street, in bad repair. I did feel something, but just assumed it was the trailer bouncing around on the uneven pavement.
-------------------- PEACE zippoz "in times of widespread chaos and confusion, it has been the duty of more advanced human beings - artists, scientists, clowns, and philosophers - to create order. In such times as ours however, when there is too much order, too much m management, too much programming and control, it becomes the duty of superior men and women and women to fling their favorite monkey wrenches into the machinery. To relieve the repression of the human spirit, they must sow doubt and disruption" "People do it every day, they talk to themselves ... they see themselves as they'd like to be, they don't have the courage you have, to just run with it."
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