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Another little known fact

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old

04-11-2005 11:07:01




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Almost all those mobile homes you see going down the road don't have working brakes on the trailors. Ya the wires are there but they don't work.




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jdemaris

04-12-2005 06:23:14




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  Little known fact not always true in reply to old, 04-11-2005 11:07:01  
That's not the case in all situations. I worked, off and on, for a mobile home place here in central New York State that was next door to our Deere dealership. All the axles we installed and homes we trucked had working brakes when they went out. Not always when they arrived.
We had a huge pile of complete axle assemblies, mostly take-offs. When we picked through the pile for axles to use, we either picked those in working order, or fixed them before installing. They use a pretty simple brake system and it's easy to fix. We also offered axles for sale since we had an overabundance of them. $100 per axle if it had wheels, tires, and brakes, or $75 if no brakes. The tires just about never have DOT ratings on them so I don't know if they are supposed to pass MV inspection or not. At one time, we had a mountain of the smaller 7 X 14.5s because they are not being used anymore. All of the tires are now 8s or 9s. We also had a mountain of the old style one-piece 14.5" wheels which you don't see much anymore. I had a sort of bad tire experience just recently. One of my equipment trailers still had the four original 7 X 14.5, non DOT, dry-rotted tires on it. They never leaked, never had any problems but I was getting worried with all the cracks and dry-rot. So, I went to my local Goodyear dealer and bought four new, DOT highway rated tires. They've been the worse crap I've ever used. I'm not sure if it's bad luck or crap tires - but I've been getting flats almost every time I use the trailer. Last time a small piece of shale pierced one of the tires.

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old

04-12-2005 07:54:45




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 Re: Little known fact not always true in reply to jdemaris, 04-12-2005 06:23:14  
There may be a few out there with brakes but I know the ones I pulled never had working brakes. I pulled from 3 or 4 factorys all we had to do was hook up put tail lights on and go, the brakes where suppose to be there but they never did work.



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jdemaris

04-12-2005 08:01:23




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 Re: Little known fact not always true in reply to old, 04-12-2005 07:54:45  
Maybe you're in a flatland area? You'd never get away with it where I live. Everything is up hill or down hill, and the New York DOT police do a lot of checking for brakes and weight per axle. If the cops didn't get you, the first steep down hill would. We've got several of those emergency pull offs for trucks with no brakes - but I'd hate to have to test one out. We've got one nearby that ends just about at the end of a cliff with a bunch of barrels you're supposed to crash into first. If they DON'T stop you, off the cliff you'd go.

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old

04-12-2005 09:20:31




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 Re: Little known fact not always true in reply to jdemaris, 04-12-2005 08:01:23  
Missouri is not known as flat land, and most pulls went west from here and most of them in to the rockys. That was 10 years ago and a lot of laws etc do change in that long a time



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Midwest redneck

04-12-2005 02:10:12




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 Re: Another little known fact in reply to old, 04-11-2005 11:07:01  
About 10 years ago I was traveling north on the I-75 freeway through Ohio near Lima and in the wide grassy median a large trailer lost a mobile home and the mobile home was absolutely demolished from the impact, it could have been wind or driver error. It sure looked like a tornado hit it but it was a clear sunny day.



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Leroy

04-12-2005 05:52:54




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 Re: Another little known fact in reply to Midwest redneck, 04-12-2005 02:10:12  
A lot of wrecks in that area,faulty design of I75, curves are hard to negociate, live about 15 mile south of bad part and I75 goes past my place about 5 mile to west. I very seldom use interstates because they are so bad. Speed limit for trucks is 55MPH but average speed is 70MPH, to fast for conditions



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RayP(MI)

04-11-2005 16:49:52




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 Re: Another little known fact in reply to old, 04-11-2005 11:07:01  
Based on the caliber of the people I have dealt with, who haul, service, install, etc. mobile homes, I would tend to believe you are right. Probably lucky it the hitch is secured with a locking pin!



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old

04-11-2005 17:28:28




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 Re: Another little known fact in reply to RayP(MI), 04-11-2005 16:49:52  
The reason I know about this is because I have pulled a few hundred of them. Boy was it fun in CO. going down one of them 10 mile mountain roads all down hill, had to stop every couple miles to let the brakes cool down.



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