Scariest towing situation

[stereo_installer]

this happened to a customer that had a hitch installed by the dealership I used to work for. The guy Just purchased a New 24' boat fully loaded was going down I-95 north and the hitch came unattached from the truck causing the New boat to get destroyed by going for a free ride into a guard rail. Customer immediately called us to flip out. we ended up Towing the boat to our shop and buying him a new one ! We also found out that none of the bolts for the hitch were properly tightened by the tech who did the work. Who was immediately fired. Just goes to show not to trust dealerships 100% always double check that stuff before you tow!

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[R-N-R]

Originally Posted by R-N-R

I forgot the drawbar pin while towing the 6500# TT, that was "interesting".

Thought I would go ahead and elaborate on this one...


Near disaster.....

Summer of '03 - late leaving for the camground. I hooked up the 28' TT and drove very aggressively such as pulling away from intersections fast and driving/towing 80mph on the freeway, total drive was about an hour. Stopped at the camground station to dump the tanks, then as I pulled up in front of the camp site and the trailer tongue dropped to the ground....forgot the hitch pin.

This is so embarrasing I hate to even re-tell it thus displaying my stupidity. I can only assume that it must have been the hand of God holding things together on the drive. To state that this could have been a serious disaster is an understatement! Yes, the pin stays in the receiver full time ever since.

So, there I was in front of the campsite with the trailer tongue on the ground, 6:30ish on a Friday night in the middle of summer, yep the CG was busy! I jack up the TT with the tongue jack, but of course did not chock the wheels. Although I got reconnected (Hensley hitch, square receiver bar into a squar receiver mounted on the TT) and pushed the TT back enough to bend the tongue jack! It was too bad to retract back intot he jack post, and of course traffic wa really stacking up behind me now.... So I pull forward dragging the tongue jack on the asphalt. I finally found a spot where I could pull over (QC/LB truck with a 28' TT in a tight campground) and let traffic past. I cut the tongue jack off....

Now I am at the campsite which of course is on a slant, so I had to jack up the TT tongue quite a bit to level out the TT. I used a screw jack from my buddy's van and numerous wood blocks for this. I ran home the next day and picked up my floor jack to get re-hoooked up and home.

Potential cost of an accident: unimaginable
Cost of Power Tongue Jack: $230ish
Embarrassment factor: Priceless....

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[Tom05]

It's stuff like that that others would say "The gene pool needs more chlorine" or how unsafe somebody is when all it takes is a slight lapse of concentration. Glad that the only thing hurt was the tongue jack (and your pride). It can happen to anybody.
Tom

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[R-N-R]

Very tactful Tom Thanks for going easy on me

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28' 6500# Sunline TT, Hensley, Prodigy

[stomper2]

Originally Posted by R-N-R

Thought I would go ahead and elaborate on this one...


Near disaster.....

Summer of '03 - late leaving for the camground. I hooked up the 28' TT and drove very aggressively such as pulling away from intersections fast and driving/towing 80mph on the freeway, total drive was about an hour. Stopped at the camground station to dump the tanks, then as I pulled up in front of the camp site and the trailer tongue dropped to the ground....forgot the hitch pin.

This is so embarrasing I hate to even re-tell it thus displaying my stupidity. I can only assume that it must have been the hand of God holding things together on the drive. To state that this could have been a serious disaster is an understatement! Yes, the pin stays in the receiver full time ever since.

So, there I was in front of the campsite with the trailer tongue on the ground, 6:30ish on a Friday night in the middle of summer, yep the CG was busy! I jack up the TT with the tongue jack, but of course did not chock the wheels. Although I got reconnected (Hensley hitch, square receiver bar into a squar receiver mounted on the TT) and pushed the TT back enough to bend the tongue jack! It was too bad to retract back intot he jack post, and of course traffic wa really stacking up behind me now.... So I pull forward dragging the tongue jack on the asphalt. I finally found a spot where I could pull over (QC/LB truck with a 28' TT in a tight campground) and let traffic past. I cut the tongue jack off....

Now I am at the campsite which of course is on a slant, so I had to jack up the TT tongue quite a bit to level out the TT. I used a screw jack from my buddy's van and numerous wood blocks for this. I ran home the next day and picked up my floor jack to get re-hoooked up and home.

Potential cost of an accident: unimaginable
Cost of Power Tongue Jack: $230ish
Embarrassment factor: Priceless....

Holy sh!t, you got real lucky.

[Rollin Smoke Diesel]

Well mine definetly was the time we were heading back from Tennessee to Indiana and headed into a ice/snow storm on I-65. I was towing a 26 foot flatbed that was empty and trying to stay steady at lower speeds. Then what do you know a big truck decides to pass myself and a car in front. Just as he cleared the car in front, you could see the trailer start to jacknife and he lost control and that in turn, you guessed it started a chain reaction slid fest with the car in front and yep with my trailer going sideways and taking me with it. Everyone was ok but my truck suffered some damage by hitting the trailer almost sideways. The road was backed up for hours as we waited for tow trucks and such. I'll never forget that one.

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[wtfd6]

about ten years ago, when i had my 89 ford f-250. it was a regular cab long bed, two wheel drive. anyway i was hauling an 88 f-250 ext cab with tool boxes, and ladder racks. on a landscaping trailer with no brakes. i was only moving it about ten miles. so i am on the e-way(shortest route) doing about 45mph when an eighteen wheeler went blowing past. that trailer started to sway. so badly that i was taking up both n.b. lanes. when i finally brought it to a stop i nearly had to change my pants. i learned a big lesson that day.

mark

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[mobs241]

flat towing my jeep this weekend.... hit a gust of wind shoved the jeep over to the left. pulling me with it. all of a sudden hear a snap and see the jeep over in the next lane.going sideways behind me.

broke a 1/2 bolt holding the towbar into the shackle when the sway bar broke... dang i need a trailer.. lukily for me i carry spare bolts.. sway bar was an easy fix.. it came apart right at the cnonection for the sway bar disconnects so i was able to take my air impact out fire up the jeep run the oba and impact a new bolt into it and use some spare parts to get it reconnected.. boy was that a fun few moments

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[jus_smokin_04.5]

Well, it was back in Dec or Jan, when you are on the road all the time, days and months run together, a buddy and myself picked up a 31' TT from Peru, Ind. Bad weather was trying to head in and we were trying to stay ahead of it. We did ok all the way to Indy, we got on I70 heading west, about 10-15 miles befor the Ill. line, the roads started getting a little glazey. My buddy was running the front door. When the roads started gettin a lil bad we slowed down to about 45mph or under. About that time he hollard at me on the CB to tell me there was a highway patrol on the side with a 4 wheeler, and that we need to move over to the hammer lane. There was a van next to me, I did turn on my signal light, the van slowed down for me and I started to move over. The highway patrol was standing next to the car by the white line on the right side of us. As I was moving over, my buddy hit a slick spot, first I see the front of his truck going to the left, then back to the right, right toward the highway patrol and the 4 wheeler (car), when it went back to the right it jerked the trailer back around and the tires on the trailer on the right side came up off of the ground about 2 1/2 ft or more. I was thinking I was goin right thru that trailer, thought the van behind me was goin thru mine, thought there was goinna be a dead highway patrol, a messed up 4 wheeler.
Must have been somebody from above lookin out fer us that night. He got control over it, said he mashed the gas and it straighted itself back out. I figure there was a few pair a britch's that needed changin that night.
Oh, my buddy drives a dodge also!!!
Kent

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[jus_smokin_04.5]

Yes I do. Its amazing what that 600 fpt will do.

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[cody]

try 15 concrete picknic tables on a 22 foot tag along with three house trailer axles bein pulled by an 86 chevy dually with the 454 (haven't got the money for a cummins yet). Had one wheel come off about a hundred miles from the house and come flyin past us when we realized it was our tire we stopped and picked it up then came on to the house on five tires. Needless to say we put a gooseneck and some better axles on after that.