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Geo-TH,In

Geo-TH,In

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Got this pic at a stop light. On the way in town a car was tailgating this load. The top bale was rocking and rolling.
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ooh my , some people have guts , I mean the truck driver for no tie downs on top. guess the car driver has guts for following.
 
(quoted from post at 12:08:02 02/29/20) ooh my , some people have guts , I mean the truck driver for no tie downs on top. guess the car driver has guts for following.
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"some people have guts, I mean the truck driver for no tie downs on top"

For SURE!

"guess the car driver has guts for following"

Likely, the car driver doesn't know any better and probably hasn't noticed the truck, much less the dancing bale, too busy staring at his hand-held "device".

The truck driver SHOULD know better, tho!
 
Reminded me of once, 'way back when, in the day when Corvair Monzas were a hot item. I was driving from Port Royal, SC to Beaufort.

There was a pickup pulling a loaded horse trailer out in front, a 'Vair Monza convertible with the top down behind it, and I was behind the Corvair. Coming up on a stop light, the Corvair pulled up right behind the horse trailer. When we were still going about 15-20mph, a mare in back of the trailer humped her back, let fly, and peed all over the Corvair.

I would assume the fellow driving the Corvair, and his female passenger, began contemplating the wisdom of tailgating a horse trailer.
 
I see that done very often and also see rolls of hay along the roadside so I know they do come off. Personally I think the single strap on the bottom two is inadequate. If I were doing that job there would be a lot more. As much as a roll of hay weights it could kill someone in a small car.
 
I can understand why loads of hay should be secured better than that- it's probably a good thing nobody has put pictures of stack trucks on here.

Lon
 
I think a bet term for the car driver would be clueless idiot vs having guts.

Or maybe the car was one of those insurance scammers looking to make an "accident" happen.
 
(quoted from post at 14:59:13 02/29/20) I see that done very often and also see rolls of hay along the roadside so I know they do come off. Personally I think the single strap on the bottom two is inadequate. If I were doing that job there would be a lot more. As much as a roll of hay weights it could kill someone in a small car.
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At +$50 per roll around here, it wouldn't be on the roadside for long.
I would be hustling to go get it myself.

I wonder who's side a cop would be on if the actual owner called the cops because I was "stealing" his unsecured load?
 
(quoted from post at 13:16:34 02/29/20)
(quoted from post at 14:59:13 02/29/20) I see that done very often and also see rolls of hay along the roadside so I know they do come off. Personally I think the single strap on the bottom two is inadequate. If I were doing that job there would be a lot more. As much as a roll of hay weights it could kill someone in a small car.
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At +$50 per roll around here, it wouldn't be on the roadside for long.
I would be hustling to go get it myself.

I wonder who's side a cop would be on if the actual owner called the cops because I was "stealing" his unsecured load?
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If you lose part of a load from your truck you get a ticket for failing to secure the load, but that does not mean the part of the load that fell off is free to any thief that comes along.

In your scenario you would be arrested for trying to steal the hay and the driver would be ticketed for not securing it. The officer gets a two-fer!
 

I know of a local person that hauls 100's of rd bales a yr @ 17 bales per load on 34' GN trailer and has yet to regularly put straps over the bales.

Every time I see his unsecured load I think it's an accident waiting to happen
 
Wife and I took a drive last summer; we crossed over Fir Island, approaching the North Fork Bridge, that slopes from the island, to a rocky outcrop on the mainland, and there at the bottom were some round bales. Didn't see strap one on the load. Halfway up the bridge sat a pick up and trailer, with a couple bales still on the trailer,and a Skagit County deputy flagging traffic, and a rather stern look on his face. When we crested the hill at the top of the bridge, we met a loader tractor, with a bale squeeze on it. No cure for stupid.
 
I strap them down.
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I even let my wife help sometimes, lol. I don?t like the little hand ratchets as well as the ratchets that. travel in a track under the decking. And you tighten them with a three foot bar. They pull down tight !
 
I see enough bales on trailers not fastened down and I just cringe, only takes moving or pulling out on the road and bad things can happen! Most are not going far but it can happen!
 
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