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BANDITFARMER

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With all the talk about the DOTs and PUCO bull crap I saw a load today that about made me screem bloody murder, Saw a JD 45 round back with cab no head and tires off sitting on the trailer deck chained down real good. The only problem was the trailer was just long enough for the axels to sit on it (end to end) tandum axes(mobile home) AND THE BIGGEST PROBLEM WAS PULLING IT WITH A RANGER PICKUP!!!! Here we are tring to be legal and keep every thing up to snuff to keep out of the Hornets Nest and my money in my pocket and then you see this! UnBelevable. Why do the cops never pull these guys over? Talk about an unsafe load WOW. Some poeple seem to have all the luck, Not Me! Bandit
 
Idiots like that make it damgerous for the rest of us that try to be safe/legal.
Don't know where this happened, but next time you see something like that, make the call.
Willie
 
I think these guys that haul like this are the reason we have so many regs. Remember it only takes "common sense",but if it was "common sense" everbody would have it.
 
Guy I bought my tractor from said he sold one about 15,000lbs. and the guy came and picked it up with a E-150 van with wife and kids!
 
I was out in the yard yesterday and heard kind of a funny tire howl coming down the road. Looked up and saw a guy towing a 45 squareback with the rear wheels backed on a car dolly going 45-50 mph!! Never ceases to amaze what people will think is a good idea.
 
Call it in. Back in PA it took a year of people calling, but the state police finally caught up with the Amish hauling a newer D6 behind a less-than-100-horse Deere 2 wheel drive. They would shift down into a lower gear, then spin the entire way up a slope with it. Just about any slope. They ran the same tractor with plates, road fuel, commercial insurance, and trailer brakes for a while, now they hire it hauled.
 
Just remembered a farmer in the next township used a Ford Ranger for several years to pull 16-18 foot chopper wagons full of silage several miles up and down the road and on some pretty good hills. (I have to say that's a tough truck to take that abuse very long.)
 
out west past Kansas, tractor puller had two 9-n's on 20+goose-neck, had strapped down good. trailer legal; wondered how he even got out of the pulls using a s-10, on top of stopping the trailer at end of drive-way down hill?
 
The local Amish haul some pretty heavy loads around here. One has a dump trailer made from a cut down gravel truck, single axle, but big enough for tandems, pulled behind an obviously too small John Deere. Tractor scratches all the way up the hill coming out of the quarry. Bed is heaped, and the driver looks like he might be all of eight years old. I was piloting a farm tractor at that age, but not with a load like that behind it. If I ever see it stopped, I want to see what kind of brakes they have on it. It's got to have brakes, or we'd have already read about the accident in the newspaper.
 
There is an old guy around here that hauls a 8N to the shows on a single axle trailer behind a Mercury Sable. Guess what? According to some on here, he is probably more legal than I am with my dually since I don't have a CDL or DOT numbers.
 
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