How not to haul your skid loader.

jon f mn · Jun 20, 2013

Sittin at a stop light in Columbus Oh. I look over and see this. Where is the dot when you need them.

thesmoothedeere · Jun 20, 2013

Red light camera ?

Dan T in MO · Jun 20, 2013

I blew it up to 400% and still not sure. Is the pintle hook open?

AG in IN · Jun 20, 2013

(quoted from post at 16:50:16 06/20/13) Where is the dot when you need them.

Just 3 digits away on your cell phone. 911.

AG

Dick2 · Jun 20, 2013

I've been told that is a $1,000 fine in AZ. Don't know if it's true or not. The usual offenders are the illegals that don't pay any attention to the laws anyway because they are already illegal. I've seen them lose cartons of nails on the freeway - somehow we made it through without a flat, but a lot of vehicles had to pull off with punctured tires.

David R Inman · Jun 20, 2013

Bet he "lives just down the road." Thats the terrible excuse people use to give my dad at the auction yard where he worked-loaded the stuff onto their trailer, truck, etc. and he'd try to tell them they should tie-chain down better.
Once he seen where one of those "just down the roaders" lost their load some 5 miles from where they bought it.

Anonymous-0 · Jun 20, 2013

that looks like around the frank rd /104 area.
RICK

Kow Farmer · Jun 20, 2013

Some people must not value their equipment too high to strap it to a trailer like that.
Kow Farmer Kurt

GordoSD · Jun 20, 2013

Safety chains not crossed

Meangreen · Jun 20, 2013

There was a guy in my hometown that only runs 1 chain through the 2 loops on the rear of the bobcat and the chain is usually so loose it"s laying on the trailer.

mkirsch · Jun 20, 2013

(quoted from post at 09:15:46 06/20/13) I blew it up to 400% and still not sure. Is the pintle hook open?

More obvious than that...

Nothing's chained down. The bobcat has one strap thrown over the loader arms but that's it. Jackhammer's just laying on the bed and so is the bit box.

Royse · Jun 20, 2013

This CaseIH was tied down slightly better.
It had a ratchet strap on front and rear when it pulled in.
I don't know how people can take that kind of risk.

IowaJohn · Jun 20, 2013

BIL did that with my skidloader once and it was only once. After I watched him put 3 tie-downs on his '44 "B" a few days earlier and they wonder why I don't offer them any more machinery and other things.

Butch(OH) · Jun 20, 2013

That guy hauls out of our yard on Haul Rd. I'm thinking 33-Frank Rd. Wonder how many other Columbus folks read here daily? LOL

GVSII · Jun 20, 2013

(quoted from post at 10:29:28 06/20/13) Safety chains not crossed

Saw that too.Was going to "report" it but you beat me to it.

jon f mn · Jun 20, 2013

No break away for the brakes either.

casenut1 · Jun 20, 2013

Jon, Columbus , Ohio is just down the road a ways from home.

DWF · Jun 20, 2013

I just saw a guy here hauling his brand new KX-91 Kubota mini excavator home in his dump trailer. Home from the dealer is about 100 miles. He said it won't move out of the trailer. I do know it needs to be tied down. He lost his Cat 247 compact track loader and 305 excavator last year in a divorce. The guy that bought them from the others ex wife said neither had been greased much. Everything loose as a goose.
Now if a guy like that takes short cuts on his own things, would you hire him for excavation work? I know I wouldn't want him taking short cuts on my project!
DWF

Dan T in MO · Jun 21, 2013

Let's not gloss over the weight distribution. I'd wager that trailer is tail heavy and likely to get to waggin' pretty bad going down the road. The hitch on the truck is either a ball below a separate pintle hook, or it's a combination ball and hook. If it's the combo, then the driver has some serious problems.

mkirsch · Jun 21, 2013

I don't know how people can take that kind of risk.

That's an easy one to answer:

It's not a risk to them.

They either have no clue or don't care.

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