I can't imagine, just hanging there. Good on them for having that thing hooked up right thought, and for having quality chains!
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Always check your trailers safty chains!
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Every year or so you see this type of thing happening. It usually happens on bridges since on mountain roads the truck and trailer usually just ends up at the bottom.
A interesting thing is that where I live there is a dip in the road about 100 feet away from a intersection. Quite often I will hear a very large band and then something being dragged down the road. Quite often it is someone pulling a trailer with too big of a hitch for the ball or they didn't latch the hitch down onto the ball. When they hit that dip the trailer will bounce and off it will come, sometimes the trailer will be dragged by the safety chains and at times it will come close to running into my yard but it usually will stop when it hits the curb and gutter on the side of the street.
A interesting thing is that where I live there is a dip in the road about 100 feet away from a intersection. Quite often I will hear a very large band and then something being dragged down the road. Quite often it is someone pulling a trailer with too big of a hitch for the ball or they didn't latch the hitch down onto the ball. When they hit that dip the trailer will bounce and off it will come, sometimes the trailer will be dragged by the safety chains and at times it will come close to running into my yard but it usually will stop when it hits the curb and gutter on the side of the street.
that canyon they were hanging over is about 70 miles from my home and it is a loooooooong way down.
it is the canyon evil kenevil tried to jump years ago and failed . then his son was going to try it a few years ago but I don't recall if it was cancelled or if he made the jump.
it is the canyon evil kenevil tried to jump years ago and failed . then his son was going to try it a few years ago but I don't recall if it was cancelled or if he made the jump.
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I dont know how it all went down for this guy but I do know that I weld the nut onto the bottom of all of my personal trailer hitches.
About 15 years ago I was driving down the road with a buddy who was pulling a stump-grinder behind his truck and the nut came off the ball while we were turning left and the stump grinder went right and flipped 10 times out through a field.
I remember mentioning the lack of safety chains when he was hooking it up. "Ya, its all good as long as you got lights"
Honestly, I am glad there were no safety chains because the truck was under-powered for the task at hand...no telling whta would have happened if we had been hooked to the thing lol
Good times.
About 15 years ago I was driving down the road with a buddy who was pulling a stump-grinder behind his truck and the nut came off the ball while we were turning left and the stump grinder went right and flipped 10 times out through a field.
I remember mentioning the lack of safety chains when he was hooking it up. "Ya, its all good as long as you got lights"
Honestly, I am glad there were no safety chains because the truck was under-powered for the task at hand...no telling whta would have happened if we had been hooked to the thing lol
Good times.
There was one just last year near Pagosa Springs:
That's not too far from you, Colorado Cowboy, isn't it? I remember that story because I had gone up that same road literally the day before with my own trailer.
That's not too far from you, Colorado Cowboy, isn't it? I remember that story because I had gone up that same road literally the day before with my own trailer.
