Stupid me, left the tail up

Dodgeit · Mar 11, 2012

After unhooking the gooseneck. You can guess the rest.

:shock:

Dang I meant to say left the tailgate up, not tail up.

Anonymous-0 · Mar 11, 2012

LOL I think anyone that has a gooneck trailer has done that at least once in their life!! It happens to the best of us!

rrlund · Mar 11, 2012

Never did that,but I backed up with the drivers side door open and caught it on the corner of the milkhouse once.

Pete_5959 · Mar 11, 2012

That is a 600.00 mistake if your truck matches your handle...Sure wish I could say I didn"t now that cost......

magpiene · Mar 11, 2012

That why I run a flatbed..... Only a 2x6....

Gchase24 · Mar 11, 2012

Yep! been there done that!

DownSouth · Mar 11, 2012

Brother hauls RV's for a living. He just removed the tailgate and left it in his garage because he was so afraid he would forget to open it as you did. Worked out well for a while, until he forgot to lock the fifthwheel one time and the brand new RV fell down on the fenders. That was a pricey repair on the truck, and the trailer was even more. He was fortunate it was covered by insurance.

Aaron SEIA · Mar 11, 2012

I did it once but caught myself and only put a couple inch bow in it. Wife did it once and truck no longer has a tailgate. She did it to my 94 Dodge 1500 with bad body cancer and 378K on the clock.
AaronSEIA

JD Farmer · Mar 11, 2012

Hell ya, happened to me last month.....new used take off tailgate and paint will run me 650.00...

Tailgate was $400, think I'll just leave it white...and maybe it will out last the truck, lol.

VicS · Mar 11, 2012

My tailgate cost 900 dollars. Was loading the
backhoe at 10 PM to go 65 miles and spread some
gravel at the cabin for the no.1 daughter. Forgot
to lock the 5 th wheel. When I drove on It squished
the trailer forward and the two angle braces drove
into the tailgate about 4 inches. Tore the wires
out of the plug-in also. lol that is life. Vic

johnwayne360 · Mar 11, 2012

Did to the boss's truck a couple years ago. Two
days after my second girl was born(emergency c
section) I was just a little bit overtired, it was
may 6-I was trying to plant, take care of the
family, and help the boss with his seed corn
business. Kind of wore me out quick..lol.

Anonymous-0 · Mar 11, 2012

Yep BTDT, not anymore tailgate to my last truck stays in the barn unless I use thr topper.

Anonymous-0 · Mar 11, 2012

Stupid me I filled my diesel pickup with gasoline. I punched the diesel but I had the gasoline nozzle in the tank. How do I fix it?

JDseller · Mar 11, 2012

I only have boughten two new pickup trucks in my life. A 1985 Chev 6.2 diesel and my 1990 Dodge 350 cummins diesel. I had the Chev two days when Grand dad forgot to shut the tailgate after he hooked up to the stock trailer. When he made the turn at the barn the tail gate was tore clear off the tuck and he ran over it. LOL I got a new one but always took it clear off whenever using it to pull trailers.

The Dodge truck was a month old and my Dad took it to move a tractor with a flat bed goose neck trailer. He forgot to latch the ball. When he loaded the tractor the trailer came unhooked and the safety chains caught it just as it caved the tail gate into the bed.

I have several other old beaters and the tail gates never get damaged on them. LOL

fixerupper · Mar 11, 2012

Both of my towing pickups are flatbeds, but I did have a three point hitch arm go through a tailgate years ago. When the factory battery in the 79 Dodge died, so this would have been in about 1983 or so, I hooked a chain to the rear hitch and pulled it out of the garage with the 630. Marilyn was driving (you know what happened already) and I told her to wait until the pickup was out of the garage and then let the clutch out and when it started push the clutch in real quick. I was on the tractor looking back at the pickup and all of a sudden here she came at me. The lower three point arm went into the tailgate right before the pickup hit the wheel. She got out and walked to the house. Not a word was spoken. I'd only been married a few years at the time and already I knew enough to keep the mouth shut. By the way, I still have that pickup and we still drive it occasionally. Had the gooseneck on it a couple of weeks ago. Jim

mark in boonville ny · Mar 11, 2012

my son drove my drove my 94 f150 and backed into the lawn tractor that was in the barn. well heres the story. had a load of hay took it to the other end of the barn. unloaded it backed about half way to teh other end of barn not paying attention and with the door wide open all of a sudden i heard crunch. the door doesnt shut unless yuo pick up on it because the corner is rotted out. then it was wide open bent behind the fender and you could shut it about 3/4 way and no further would it open or close. had to crawl through the pass side for a couple days till i decided to take the skid steer and pick up on the door. now it works just like it did before just the door is about destroyed now. when the truck was almost new and i had no tralor i had to load round bales in the box with the gate down. never put a scratch on it. i had to go somewhere and had the worker put the last bale on and what happens he bends it in half. still woked but like crap until a few yrs ago i had lumber stacked on it and a lot of it and hit a bump ans the gate came flying off and twisted it now it does shut. so what do i do i put a comalong on it to hold it up and thats how i have it now.

504 · Mar 11, 2012

Not just a goose neck, little brother used my 20ft bumper pull to haul his 79 Lil Red Express down to a car show(1979 tires and 125 miles), his buddy forgot to latch the trailer,he put the hitch through his new Dodge truck tail gate. At least he didn't hurt the Red one.

JMOR · Mar 11, 2012

(quoted from post at 22:53:40 03/11/12) Both of my towing pickups are flatbeds, but I did have a three point hitch arm go through a tailgate years ago. When the factory battery in the 79 Dodge died, so this would have been in about 1983 or so, I hooked a chain to the rear hitch and pulled it out of the garage with the 630. Marilyn was driving (you know what happened already) and I told her to wait until the pickup was out of the garage and then let the clutch out and when it started push the clutch in real quick. I was on the tractor looking back at the pickup and all of a sudden here she came at me. The lower three point arm went into the tailgate right before the pickup hit the wheel. She got out and walked to the house. Not a word was spoken. I'd only been married a few years at the time and already I knew enough to keep the mouth shut. By the way, I still have that pickup and we still drive it occasionally. Had the gooseneck on it a couple of weeks ago. Jim

ou are a smart man!

Chris(WA) · Mar 11, 2012

If the truck is older just dilute the gas with diesel fuel until you think you have it down to about 10% gas. then just run it. She will be fine.
New diesel, I do not have a clue.

donjr · Mar 11, 2012

Been there, done that. Twice. Dammit.

Dodgeit · Mar 12, 2012

I was pretty torqued yesterday, after I did it.

730 virgil · Mar 12, 2012

i went thru a gate turned to short and caught the gate with the box of the truck put a nice dent in the box and big scracth in box for added touch

Anonymous-0 · Mar 12, 2012

Thanks for your input. I had a local shop work on it. They drained all the diesel-gas mixture out. Took the filter out and cleaned it and put some transmission oil in it. Hope this works. Roy

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