Re: how not to haul a skid loader (pic)

Posted by Mark - IN. on April 30, 2014 at 16:48:29 from (98.215.76.204):

In Reply to: how not to haul a skid loader (pic) posted by Scott-sd on April 29, 2014 at 21:42:32:

So, once towed one truck from Illinois to Indiana when I moved back home. Used one of those two wheeled dollies, rented from NOT U-haul, so I needed to return the dolly when I was done. OK, 150 miles or so on the toll road, not a good thing to do to a dolly with no load on it because it will bounce like a basketball the whole way. No problem. Had a set of old cast iron BB chevy heads that wasn't going to use, so I fastened them down to the dolly, one each where the vehicle tires go, and drove it back to Illinois where I got it from. Smooth riding all the way. When I returned it, I grabbed the two heads and put them in the pickup bed, setting at the tailgate, not fastened down and drove back to Indiana. Came up to an intersection where someone turned in front of me, so I jammed real hard on the brakes to avoid broadsiding that car. Those two huge heads came sliding on the slick bed paint and crashed into the front of the bed so hard, that my pickup started bouncing into the intersection, ripping the front of the bed from the bottom, pushing it up against the back of the cab. I had forgotten that they were back there, and scared the crap out of me. Thought I was rearended by something big.

I learned from that. I learned that now when I haul anything in the bed, I put it against the front, even if I don't tie it down. I can control my take offs so that whatever stays against the front, may slide back some, but pretty much stays against the front. Stops though? Had I stopped harder at a faster speed, those BB chevy heads might have rocketed through my back. Live and learn from my mistakes to keep yourself happy and healthy for a long, long, long time to come.

Mark

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