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Offline azguzzirep

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Re: I Can Quit ANYTIME I Want To
« Reply #1 on: April 15, 2017, 03:19:51 PM »
Some scary crap on that video 😨
Murphy's  Law sucks!

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Re: I Can Quit ANYTIME I Want To
« Reply #2 on: April 15, 2017, 05:09:47 PM »
 Some of the comments are funny .
 " Guess you had to do the 'meth' "  :laugh:

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Re: I Can Quit ANYTIME I Want To
« Reply #3 on: April 15, 2017, 05:53:59 PM »
A textbook case of job killing regulations- bloke's just trying to make a living in road transport.
Eliminate regulations to make South Australia great again.
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Re: I Can Quit ANYTIME I Want To
« Reply #3 on: April 15, 2017, 05:53:59 PM »

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Re: I Can Quit ANYTIME I Want To
« Reply #4 on: April 15, 2017, 06:34:09 PM »
I thought the 'flexible coupling' 'twixt trailer and tow vehicle was a nice touch... :violent1:

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Re: I Can Quit ANYTIME I Want To
« Reply #5 on: April 15, 2017, 07:40:32 PM »
Just before people get carried away the tank is polly/plastic so its not what you'd describe as heavy.

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Re: I Can Quit ANYTIME I Want To
« Reply #6 on: April 15, 2017, 07:49:13 PM »
1 time I rented a small fiberglass camping trailer and was pulling it behind my 1/2T Dodge Ram PU doing 65 mph on Hwy 50 in norCal when it felt like the hitch had disengaged from my PU bumper  :shocked:  The trailer stayed behind me but was moving the rearend of the truck around some as the only thing keep the trailer attached to the PU was the 2 safety chains and we were on a downhill freeway.  I was safely able to pull over w/o any incidence and found the ball I installed on the bumper was attached by a bolt upside down in the ball had loosed up over time and completely fallen out of the bumper!!  :cry:  Amazingly we were able to find the bolt and attach it again and move on.  It had a lock washer on it but the constant pulling/pushing motion on the hitch apparently had loosened it over time.  Never bought that design hitch again.  :violent1:

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Re: I Can Quit ANYTIME I Want To
« Reply #7 on: April 15, 2017, 07:59:47 PM »
Just before people get carried away the tank is polly/plastic so its not what you'd describe as heavy.

 Yeah  , probably about 300 lbs , although the aero can't be great  :laugh: When first seeing the pic I thought , "Oh hell , please let this not be in Oklahoma"  :rolleyes:

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Re: I Can Quit ANYTIME I Want To
« Reply #8 on: April 16, 2017, 12:06:44 AM »
Some of those close calls look like an average day's events in Florida.
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Re: I Can Quit ANYTIME I Want To
« Reply #9 on: April 16, 2017, 12:08:36 AM »
1 time I rented a small fiberglass camping trailer and was pulling it behind my 1/2T Dodge Ram PU doing 65 mph on Hwy 50 in norCal when it felt like the hitch had disengaged from my PU bumper  :shocked:  The trailer stayed behind me but was moving the rearend of the truck around some as the only thing keep the trailer attached to the PU was the 2 safety chains and we were on a downhill freeway.  I was safely able to pull over w/o any incidence and found the ball I installed on the bumper was attached by a bolt upside down in the ball had loosed up over time and completely fallen out of the bumper!!  :cry:  Amazingly we were able to find the bolt and attach it again and move on.  It had a lock washer on it but the constant pulling/pushing motion on the hitch apparently had loosened it over time.  Never bought that design hitch again.  :violent1:

I don't think that design is available any more (in the US) for that reason.
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Re: I Can Quit ANYTIME I Want To
« Reply #10 on: April 16, 2017, 04:31:19 AM »
The trailer stayed behind me but was moving the rearend of the truck around some as the only thing keep the trailer attached to the PU was the 2 safety chains and we were on a downhill freeway.   :violent1:

When I picked up my Griso years ago used I rented a UHaul trailer attached to my factory class 3 hitch on the Durango.  It was a Los Angeles run from Folsom, CA.  By the time I made it to the outskirts in Malibu I had to stop and find a new bolt for the trailer hitch.  The freeway is so bad there the jarring had banged the pin out of the 2" tube insert out of the receiver on the empty trailer.  I roped the insert & ball back in the receiver, found a local lumber store that carried really big bolts and triple nutted the insert back in.  Yeah I do tend to overkill the tie-down & trailer attachments from decades of running loads for Construction.  There's always some IDIOT that will pull out right in front of you

I don't see how anyone rides some of those LA Freeways without splitting rims every so often.

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Re: I Can Quit ANYTIME I Want To
« Reply #11 on: April 16, 2017, 06:39:46 AM »
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I don't see how anyone rides some of those LA Freeways without splitting rims every so often.

Many years ago, a ride up the 5 leaving LA in the Jack All rig made me wonder about that. I don't know how they can have what feels like frost heaves where it doesn't freeze. First, the front wheel would hit, then the sidecar wheel, then the rear. It had my tank bag shaking back and forth so badly I couldn't read the map.
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Re: I Can Quit ANYTIME I Want To
« Reply #12 on: April 16, 2017, 07:47:52 AM »
 Those heaves in the road are caused by big semis.  Those tandem axles hit a bump and the front axle bounces up then the rear half bounces hammering the front half back down. this causes the beginning of a new bump when the asphalt is peened repeatedly.  Soon those trucks are going along with the tandem axles peening long strips of hi way into washboard asphalt. If you stand near the side road you can watch this happening as the tandems rattle end for end violently as they speed along.
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