Posted by Tom OConnor on August 25, 2016 at 16:43:37 from (68.83.201.202):
In Reply to: Trailer Surfing posted by showcrop on August 25, 2016 at 15:07:34:
I hate to tell this story but it might help somebody in the future to be a little more diligent on loading tractors. I was loading a fifty three foot semi van trailer with tractors several years ago to take to the John Deere Expo and I didn't have a loading dock so I backed the first one on a goose-neck trailer with a hydraulic lift, then lifted the beavertail ramp and backed up to the semi. I had let the air out of the suspension system as to lower the height of the van trailer but I was still about four inches from being level with the goose neck. The tractor that I was loading was a newly restored 830 Deere and I thought that tractor would just walk up that four inches with no problem what so ever. Wrong!!!!!!! By the time the front wheels of the tractor got to the van trailer the weight of the tractor on the back end of the goose neck lifted the back end of the pickup on the gooseneck up off the ground and the rear wheels of the tractor pushed the pickup and trailer forward enough to drop the front end of the tractor on the ground. At this point I think that my heart just stopped but I shut everything down, locked the breaks on the tractor, got off, surveyed the situation and pulled the van trailer ahead. Next I let the hydraulic ramp down and the pickup came back to earth. Damage done???? Absolutely none. The pickup and trailer went just far enough ahead so that the front end of the tractor just missed the van trailer on the way down. Lesson learned??? It only takes a few scoops with the loader tractor to make a spot to lower the semi tires to lower the back end so the other trailer will lap over the van and then chain the two together.
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