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Saw a brilliant move today, right before my eyes.
Saturday was our big area consignment farm sale. To avoid the
crowds, I waited until this morning to go back to get my new treasures.
As I was driving into the grounds, a guy coming toward me
drove thru a stop sign, made a sharp right turn and immediately dumped
all his newly purchased treasures on the pavement,all right in front of me.
Luckily, I saw it coming and stopped in time. No sign of any tie-downs on his trailer.

As my good deed for the day......
I sent the guy with the loader at the sale grounds back to help him.
 
You must be a novelist ...... leaving the reader hanging. What was dumped? Gotta finish the story for us .... "treasures" could be almost anything.
 
I was at one once and a guy had a grain drill that he had just bought loaded in his pickup so the tongue was sticking over the passenger side of the box. He came up and slammed that right in to the back of the auctioneer's truck. Good thing nobody was standing there,it would have taken their head right off.
 
I watched an up-right piano fall out of a truck on a city street once. That piano must have broke into a thousand pieces when it hit the road. The guy standing in the back of the truck tried to keep it upright. It didn't work out for him.
 
Looked like an almost new JD grapple for a front end loader and some other attachment for a FEL that I could not quite identify. Maybe a connector to use the grapple on a skid steer???? Sure did not do the hydraulics of the grapple any good as it rolled across the pavement.
 
I went to an auction 4-5 years ago and bought an IH flat rack wagon and about 500 good t posts. I loaded the wagon onto my 18' trailer facing backward and piled the posts on the wagon for an easy unload when I got home. I wrapped straps across the t posts so they were good and put a chain front and back of the wagon. There was a steep slope to their driveway and a dip at the bottom so the trailer flexed pretty good gaining the road. In so doing it dropped the front chain so when I started up the road the wagon headed backward off the trailer...BUT...the tongue was laying on the trailer and it hit the metal edge of the wood floor and stopped the trailer dead...EXCEPT...seeing all this I hit the brakes and the loaded wagon came full tilt back toward my truck. Thank heaven that back chain did not come off and the wagon was jerked to a stop exactly where it started and I got out and chained it down better this time.
 
Working in a factory loading packages in a semi . one truck was loaded and had to pull forward to close the doors unfortunately he didn't stop on the level he pulled out through a slight incline causing the packages in the back to slide out into a nice big puddle of water all new in nice clean boxes all i could think was I'm glad it wasn't my load he dumped.
 
Watched a fellow back his 'new' manure spreader onto a truck from a loading ramp one day at the end of a sale. It wwas still hooked to the tractor, and he motioned to his son, who was driving the truck, that he was loaded. The kid misunderstood him, and started to drive off so someone else could use the loading ramp. He drove right out from underneath the spreader, which dropped in front of the loading ramp- still hitched to the tractor. The new owner was a bit PO'ed because he needed to get his horse stable cleaned out, and now had to repair his spreader, which pretty well demolished the beaters.Some people are dangerous....
 

I pulled under the asphalt silo for the first time with the company's new truck, and checked my tailgate as a good dirt dummy does. I got my load and pulled up to the speaker where the ticket comes out also. The operator told me that I was short the 6 tons that I had left on the scale. Turned out I had pushed down on the wrong tailgate knob, and had instead verified that the lift axle was still down.
 
At an auction 'bout 20 years ago, I loaded a 3 point cultivator on my trailer and boomed it down. I then had the loader guy set a pull type chisel plow on top of the cultivator. The shanks of the chisel plow went between the shanks on the cultivator so they sat frame on frame. I didn't see where that chisel plow could go anywhere.

Forty miles down the road, we turned a corner to go to my BIL's place and that chisel plow dropped off the trailer. It rolled over next to the curb, undamaged. We never did figure out how it got off.

We didn't try to reload it. I unhooked the trailer at my BIL's house, went back and got the chisel plow. I pulled the trailer home with the cultivator on it, then pulled the chisel plow home behind my pickup. To the day he died last fall, my BIL referred to that corner as the "Chisel Plow Corner".
 
Hoof Print, I lost a church organ out the back of a trailer a few years ago. It was an old Hammond that needed work but was too old to fix so there was no loss but it too disintegrated when it hit the gravel road. My plan was to throw it on the burn pile anyway but I ended up throwing it on the burn pile in pieces. It was kind of sad though, I spent many hours playing that organ for church services.
 
I've seen a medium sized rental box truch laying on it's side on a city street near a corner. one back door open and a nice upright piano laying on it's back against the box's wall. Apparently the piano was not tied down and rolled across the box at the turn and tipped the truck over! Leo
 
I can't tell you how many idiots I've seen who don't or won't tie down their load. Another pet peeve is when they leave the tailgate open and it's full of junk. Have also seen the results of when things don't stay where you think they probably would. Can really ruin someone else's day!
 
A few years ago when I was on my rural newspaper route I came upon a small engine block laying in the intersection of a state highway and county road, it was just off the edge of the lane of the state highway. One of the many times I had to use my cell and dial 911 while on the route. Mostly for trees on the road.
 
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