how not to haul a skid loader (pic)

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That is insanity! One of those bounced off a trailer while crossing a bridge.Killed a young mother and 3 small children.It was not chained either.Driver said he wasnt going far,didnt think it go anywhere....He is now spending a long time in the 'Bars Hotel'.

anybody who haules like that should be confined to something pulled by a horse! we had a good man killed here too, when a d-6 dozer slid sideways off a trailer and landed on top of his suburban going the other way at the same time,thru a curve, tragic, untill you find out the rest of the story then it makes you mad, the dozer was held by 2, 3/8ths chains, and was idleing in nutural while in transport so "it would be warmed up" when it got to the job! anybody who has ever been arouind equipment and machinery knows you never, ever do that! shut it off, lock it down and chain it down, with the appropriate size chains, at least 4 of them

If he wasn't stopped, he sure was lucky. Like others have said, that could have slid right off and injured or killed someone! If he had been stopped I'm sure the officer would have inspected the rest of the truck too. If the driver didn't want to take a few minutes to secure the skidloader, think what else he decided to over look.

Why is it these guys seam to never get caught by the cops? Every time it seams I hook the trailer up and go down the road I get pulled over for some kind of check to see if every thing legal and up to snuff. Last fall I saw one that had to be stopped going down the I-275 so I grabbed the cb and got ahold of the state patrol.

New King Ranch F350 4 door 4x4 diesel 18 year old driving and 4 of his buddies pulling a car trailer with a 843 Bobcat on it trying to pass everybody in sight. One bright pink 1 inch strap hooked to the fenders going over the top of the Bobcat, Trailer missing 2 tires and rims no lights no safety chains and best of all a class 2 ball hitch in a class 3 hitch on the truck flopping around with a car lug wench bent down to hold it in the hitch as a pin. He did get pulled over! Bandit

(quoted from post at 21:42:32 04/29/14) Here's a post from someone on craigslist.

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How dare he leave his jack down like that!!!

When you see something like that, grab your cell phone, call 911, and REPORT it.

Traveling up I-35 not too many years ago, I came up behind an 18 wheeler with a load of tubing on a flatbed. That load had already shifted and appeared to be ready to break loose. I called 911. Took less than 1 minute before the highway patrol was all over that load.

Not sayin it was right, but years ago nobody tied any machinery down. I don't recall ever loosing any except in the winter when the wood decks would get frosty. Maybe the loboys and trucks of the day didn't go as fast as today?

Up north in MN equipment is quite often left running during transport in the winter, otherwise it won't start when you get to the job! What is the danger in leaving an engine run? You have to realize most logging is done when it is well below zero. If it is properly chained down it shouldn't matter.

I was unloading a L554 the other day, I rolled the bed back and was about to jump in when the park brake popped off and it rolled down the deck, im glad I had the deck as flat as possible. From now on Im unloading them with the winch, not trusting the brake locks anymore. I should have in the first place.

(quoted from post at 08:36:13 04/30/14) Up north in MN equipment is quite often left running during transport in the winter, otherwise it won't start when you get to the job! What is the danger in leaving an engine run? You have to realize most logging is done when it is well below zero. If it is properly chained down it shouldn't matter.

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I agree...have done it often myself. People claim you shouldn't haul a tractor with it in gear, this is no different....and you don't have to tape up the exhaust LOL!

I looked at the link and in the second photo, in the mirror of the one taking the photo, there is a car about a foot off of his rear bumper!

Some days it is better to just stay home in bed

Pretty common practice for equipment to be idling while it's being transported around here in the winter.

About 20 years ago an old timer that never tied his equipment down ran out of luck. His loader rolled off the trailer and took out the corner of a 2 story brick apartment building.

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

(quoted from post at 07:16:03 04/30/14) [b:67dab86fa7]Why is it these guys seam to never get caught by the cops? [/b:67dab86fa7]Every time it seams I hook the trailer up and go down the road I get pulled over for some kind of check to see if every thing legal and up to snuff. Last fall I saw one that had to be stopped going down the I-275 so I grabbed the cb and got ahold of the state patrol.

New King Ranch F350 4 door 4x4 diesel 18 year old driving and 4 of his buddies pulling a car trailer with a 843 Bobcat on it trying to pass everybody in sight. One bright pink 1 inch strap hooked to the fenders going over the top of the Bobcat, Trailer missing 2 tires and rims no lights no safety chains and best of all a class 2 ball hitch in a class 3 hitch on the truck flopping around with a car lug wench bent down to hold it in the hitch as a pin. He did get pulled over! Bandit

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They do get caught pretty regular. And then they come here or to any of a number of other sites and complain about the stupid cop picking on him when he was doing everything in a perfectly safe manner. 27 other guys will then back him to the hilt and them tell their own stories about the stupid cop that ticketed him for doing nothing wrong when he was towing his D4 behind his wifes Blazer on his buddies tandem axle 7k GVWR trailer with 2- 1/4" Harbor Freight chains and a 2" strap holding it down.

Seen it a million times.